Please Go for it

According to the NY Times, President Obama is contemplating whether or not to nationalize the upcoming congressional elections by taking out TV ads attacking the Republicans as too radical and prisoners of the far right Tea parties. All I can say is “please, please go for it!” Imagine, unemployment is nearly 10%, the country is heading in the wrong direction, the acts taken by Congress are nearly universally disliked, and individual Democrats are ignoring national issues and discussing the character of their Republican opponents. In this atmosphere, Obama’s crack political team thinks it would be wise to nationalize this as a contest between Obama and the Tea parties. Given this view, I realize how they came to be his crack political team – they must be smoking crack.