Michael Goodwin:
Pick your favorite: "Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it." Or, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result."
Either way, the wisdom is wasted on President Obama and congressional Democrats. They learned nothing from the historic shellacking voters gave them.
Whether through ignorance or intent, the White House, Harry Pelosi and Nancy Reid -- what's in a name? -- are again setting their sails against public opinion. Damn the voters, full speed backwards.
They still want to raise taxes on small businesses and families making over $250,000. They want to pour billions more into the unemployment pot, which is becoming a welfare program.
They refuse to stop sky-high spending, preferring to keep the debt bomb building. They reject the clamor for a ban on earmarks.
The whole world wants a new economic approach from Washington, but Democratic leaders see the lame-duck session as another chance to impose their wrong-headed will. The voters spoke -- they roared! -- and the Dems respond by becoming the party of No.
The result is a growing chatter among loyalists that 2012 already is shaping up as another disaster. Skillfully tacking to the center is the only hope, but so far, party leaders are still steering hard left.
It's a startling scene, as though the election never happened, with the same crew running the Titanic. Pelosi, freshly minted as minority leader for the January term, intends to squeeze a final burst of partisanship out of her beaten crew.
Ditto for Reid, meaning the last vote many members cast will be yet another one in defiance of their countrymen.
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Liberals are still liberals even when they are defeated. They are going to need another shellacking in 2012 to totally remove them from the levers of power to get them to stop ruling against the will of the people.
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