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The best message in politics is always: “It’s Time for a Change.”
 
That worked like a charm for Democrats in 2006 and 2008. Voters were anxious, angry and ready to throw out the bums in power in Washington.
 
Nothing has changed this year – except Democrats are now the bums in power.
 
Democratic governors – many of them up for election this year – worried this weekend that President Obama’s message hasn’t connected.

It hasn’t. People still like Obama. But he’s reduced to arguing that his stimulus bill saved jobs and the economy.

Unlike Ronald Reagan, who also took office in tough economic times, Obama isn’t selling a popular cure. Reagan was selling lower taxes. Obama, when you get down to it, is selling more spending.

Republicans believe they’re on the right side of the winning message this year. So why should they do anything responsible – like solving the debt crisis or protecting millions of Americans from ruinous medical bills?
 
Likely as not, Republicans will win big enough this fall to once again become part of the bums in power in Washington.
 
Once they do, they’ll have a choice the next two years: Do something responsible – or just try to beat Obama in 2012. They’ll pick the latter.
 
Once Obama wins reelection against Mitt Romney or Tim Pawlenty or whatever loser the GOP nominates (it won’t be Sarah Palin, though she or Ron Paul may be the Ross Perot of 2012), maybe something will get done.
 
Until then, Americans apparently will just have to hang on and hope for the best.
 
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Maybe one of these days, perhaps years from now, when we've moved on to other topics, crisis, and personalities, I'd like for one of the people who really believed in Barrack Obama to explain to me how they came by that belief. I can understand how, in the heat of an election season and fueled by disgust with the Bush administration, otherwise intelligent people can get caught up by a glib Chicago community organizer who can read a teleprompter well, and vote him into office. It's much harder to understand how after a year of demonstrated incompetence supposedly intelligent people can maintain that faith.
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