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Sunday, February 20, 2011
Ind. Gov't. - "Down on luck Democrats must nurture next generation"
That is the heading of a thoughtful article today by Eric Bradner of the Evansville Courier & Journal, that builds on ideas set out by Democratic party thinker Jennifer Wagner in an Indianapolis Business Journal column.
Fellow attorney and blogger Doug Masson picks up the ball in this entry today that concludes:
Bradner points out that so far the state Republicans have devoted a lot of their energy moving social conservative wish list stuff – guns everywhere, abortions nowhere; that kind of thing. I think the desire to move those things has been frustrated for years by the Democratic house, and it’s kind of sling-shotting forward. Abdul at Indiana Barrister has suggested that, privately, some unnamed Republicans are concerned that this legislation isn’t necessarily a great idea and they should be focused on other things. But, it seems to me, these more level-headed Republicans have relied on the opposition party to keep the right wing of their party in check. They’ve been silent for so long, the silence has become acquiescence.The Circle of Life laws of political physics suggests that this swing of the pendulum opens up opportunities on the left end of the political spectrum, but if all Hoosiers can see out of the Democrats are Pat Bauer and the leavings of Evan Bayh, those opportunities won’t amount to much.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on February 20, 2011 05:52 PM
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