Bill Clinton gave us It’s the Economy, Stupid, using the concept to unseat a president that made Americans proud to be Americans again by liberating Kuwait and kicking Saddam’s ass back to Baghdad.

The Democrats have forgotten Slick Willie’s lesson and that, according to The Economist, is the reason that Democrats are at risk of losing both the House and the Senate (admittedly a long shot, but with the size of their majorities this shouldn’t even be a topic of conversation at this point). Whilst the Dems were bailing out unsuccessful financial companies and auto makers, and passing a hugely unpopular (and expensive) health care bill, this is what was happening to Joe Sixpack:

More than half of all workers have experienced a spell of unemployment, taken a cut in pay or hours or been forced to go part-time. The typical unemployed worker has been jobless for nearly six months. Collapsing share and house prices have destroyed a fifth of the wealth of the average household. Nearly six in ten Americans have cancelled or cut back on holidays. About a fifth say their mortgages are underwater. One in four of those between 18 and 29 have moved back in with parents. Fewer than half of all adults expect their children to have a higher standard of living than theirs, and more than a quarter say it will be lower.

Another way to put this is that for many Americans the great recession has been the sharpest trauma since the second world war, wiping out jobs, wealth and hope itself. That is why fewer than half now think that Mr Obama is doing a good job. He and his party will need to present an astonishingly good argument to talk the electorate out of doing what will come naturally in a mid-term: casting a protest vote against the party in power. They have not yet provided one that is sufficiently persuasive.

Exactly. And time is running out fast.

How are Democrats spending that time? Hugh Hewitt says that Democrats are sprinting towards the political cliff:

Against this backdrop the Democrats refuse to extend the Bush tax cuts, refuse to fix the death tax which will skyrocket at the end of the year without action, and refuse to address the wild spending which has driven the deficit to levels that risk a fiscal stroke.

What do the Congressional Democrats instead offer as the key legislative debate?  A manifestly unconstitutional attempt to advantage themselves in elections via the so-called “DISCLOSE Act,” an absurdly partisan ploy to keep union campaign spending robust and concealed while crushing the ability of almost all other groups –except the NRA, the Sierra Club and a few other favored special interests– from impacting elections. …

The Manhattan-Beltway media elite have fundamentally misunderstood or refused to believe what is happening in front of their eyes, and their blindness has apparently led the MSM-addicted Congressional Democrats to ignore the issues that do concern voters while pushing forward an agenda that deeply offends an already outraged electorate.  The president’s deep-seated ideology similarly renders him incapable of understanding the depth of the rejection of his agenda that is sweeping the country.

Meanwhile the Democrat’s wasteful actions are being felt across the nation in state-level races, with GOP being forecast to pick up 6 to 12 governor mansions and as many as 20 legislative chambers.

Democrats were weak on terrorism in 2002, leading to the Bushification of America. Will the bankrupting of America’s future lead to a Republican tsunami in 2010? Four months to go, and the Democrats don’t seem to have a strategy to head off the wave.

Problem is, experience teaches us that a Republican Congress does not equate to a conservative nor even fiscally responsible Congress.

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