On September 1, Chris Matthews of MSNBC had this advice for his fellow Democrats:
Let me finish tonight with the politics of this November.
If the Republicans want to roll up the score, they`re on the right path. Energized by the Tea Party grassroots, driven by a nasty economy and by a ferocious propaganda campaign that paints the Democrat in the White House as a terrorist sympathizer, they can just keep doing what they`re doing.
Democrats have a tougher task. How to win when things are so darn bad? Well, the smart, tough, hard-nosed strategy is to play to your strengths.
Democrats have always been trusted first and foremost on the economic basics — bread and butter, looking out for people in trouble. They`re the party you vote for when you`re unemployed, when you`re really need unemployment insurance, when you`re worried about retiring and needing every cent of that Social Security check you spent your life working for.
Democrats are also the people you tend to trust when you see that the grand loudly promised benefits of globalism and greater productivity are going to the boys on Wall Street, when your factory is closing, when you`re being cut from a job you`ve spent decades doing your best at.
Well, look, this is going to be a tough year for the Democrats, but if they`re smart, they`ll start talking about real ways to create jobs, making steel to build rapid rail track and fast-moving trains, bringing big, big heavy, good-paying industrial jobs back to put men and women to work here in our American neighborhoods because of real capital investments and rebuilding our subways and bridges and road systems — real jobs to replace the smell of decay with the healthy smell of construction, of dirty being moved and foundations being laid and real, good old, almost forgotten factory noise.
Oh, you`ll be knocked for talking like this. You`ll be mocked by the smoother, better off critics out there. But the working people will hear you as real, and Mr. And Mrs. Democrat may well end up with a good piece of the political action, even this November — not only that, but one day, sooner than you think, with a place in the sun.
Democrats, did you hear me? Play your strengths: work and wages.
Finally, the perpetual motion machine has been invented.
Since Democrats took over Congress, 7 million people have lost their jobs.
That means 7 million votes for Democrats.
One other thing, Chris Matthews said of his party "if they're smart, they'll start talking about real ways to create jobs, making steel to build rapid rail track and fast-moving trains, bringing big, big heavy, good-paying industrial jobs back to put men and women to work here in our American neighborhoods because of real capital investments and rebuilding our subways and bridges and road systems -- real jobs to replace the smell of decay with the healthy smell of construction, of dirty being moved and foundations being laid and real, good old, almost forgotten factory noise."
Really?
How do you make steel without mining for coal -- without putting carbon dioxide into the air -- without using some form of nuclear or carbon-based energy -- without exceeding the noise pollution limits -- without violating any of the 200 volumes of federal law and regulations that are now on the books?
Tell me.
