| richardhutnik said: And yes, it is true, when a party is out of power, they do engage more of being on the attack. I will say it does appear though that the political cycle is nonstop now, where even a national tragedy can't get people to stop a minute and think. |
I'm not sure about that. Partisans seem to stoop lower and lower, and some of do them live in a world entirely of their own. A CNN poll taken from Friday through Sunday (after Obama's speech where he denounced this kind of thing) showed that 56% of Democrats believe Palin's map contributed to the Tucson shooting. That's similar to the number of Republicans who weren't sure Obama is a citizen in a Research 2000 poll from a couple of years ago (with the caveat being that the Daily Kos sued Research 2000 last year for doing a shitacular job).
So, that's not good. But at the same time, people are abandoning the parties in droves and will probably only continue to do so as these kinds of recriminations fly back and forth. The optimist in me says that with huge problems to be faced, people are going to demand results. That will require politicians to begin to act like adults, and so hopefully this kind of insanity will be booted out of the public square and back to the fringes of society where it belongs.
