November 06, 2008

Dems: The Whole "Change" Thing?

Eh, maybe not so much.

Except for the mindless automatons who've been walking around like brain-eating zombies chanting "yes we can", this really shouldn't come as a total surprise:

Democratic leaders are tamping down on expectations for rapid change and trying to signal they will place a calm hand on the nation’s tiller.

“The country must be governed from the middle,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday. Repeating themes from election night, she said she plans to emphasize “civility” and “fiscal responsibility.”

Her comments emphasized that after an election consistently referred to as “historic,” Democrats face the daunting task of dealing with the plunging economy and two wars.

Yet, they face massive expectations for change and deep-seated fears of overreaching. But senior aides say they’ve learned from the mistakes of the past. Nearly every member of the current Democratic leadership in the House served through the 1992 election, when Bill Clinton was elected president. Two years later, the GOP gained control of Congress.

More recently, they’ve watched Republicans go from complete dominance to minority status in the space of two elections.

“The difference is we have the benefit of experience in seeing what happens when you gain control,” said a senior Democratic aide. “I do not envision a scenario where we’d go off on an ideological mission in an undisciplined way."

In other words, "we've got our power back and we're going to desperately cling to it as tightly as possible".

I don't know how I'm going to tell my kids that they might not be getting that unicorn.

Up to 2:28 in the clip above gets the point across.

Posted by Gary at November 6, 2008 11:02 AM | TrackBack
Comments

I'm still going with a lollipop tree. The One promised me a lollipop tree.

Posted by: rbj at November 6, 2008 02:28 PM
“The difference is we have the benefit of experience in seeing what happens when you gain control,” said a senior Democratic aide. “I do not envision a scenario where we’d go off on an ideological mission in an undisciplined way."

BAHAHahahahah... Oh I do, I envision many scenarios were Harry and Nance go off the reservation and with exceeding glee.

Posted by: Jon at November 7, 2008 09:54 AM

To hear Pelosi say she would govern from the middle made me throw up a little bit.
I had a boss introduce me to the "reasonable" test. Very simple really; based on anything you know about anything at all, is this reasonable?
Hence, my digestive upset.

Posted by: Babs at November 8, 2008 10:54 AM