Democrats will run against "chaos" in 2014
Democrats, facing a challenging fight to retake the House of Representatives in 2014, see a promising new line of attack rising out of the fiscal cliff follies: casting the Republican congressional majority as a terminally dysfunctional body that cannot perform the basic functions of government, let alone lead the country through difficult times.
It’s a meaningful shift from the Democrats’ message in 2012, when President Barack Obama’s party gained a modest eight seats in the House attacking Republicans as ultraconservative allies of the super-rich.
In other words: if Democrats wanted last cycle to be about whether Mitt Romney and other Republicans were too right wing and elitist to govern, they hope to make next cycle about whether the GOP House can operate on any ideological terms at all.
New York Rep. Steve Israel, who chairs the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said the political reality is that “people do tend to blame Republicans for this chaos” and the minority party has two years to explain to voters how the fallout from that hurts their lives.
Call it like it is - some of those people are idiots.
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