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By John David Dyche WDRB Contributor
The Democrats who run Kentucky's House of Representatives are deathly afraid that the public is going to finally hold them accountable for the party's long legacy of failed liberal policies. They are therefore willing to do almost anything to avoid this day of reckoning. That includes avoiding votes that would expose their true Democratic colors.
Republicans recently filed a raft of amendments to the state budget bill that would have put the Democrats on record for or against Obamacare and their party's other unpopular policies. Democratic House Speaker Greg Stumbo resorted to parliamentary stunts to shut down debate and dodge difficult votes on the amendments.
Republicans resisted. Representative Joe Fischer of Fort Thomas moved to suspend the rules to get a vote on defunding Democratic Governor Steve Beshear's expansion of Medicaid and establishment of a health insurance exchange under Obamacare. Rather than risk going on record for or against their party's signature accomplishment, 29 Democrats did not vote.
Even more Democrats headed for the hills when Republican Representative Stan Lee of Lexington offered a measure arising from Democratic Attorney General Jack Conway's refusal to appeal the recent federal ruling striking down Kentucky's constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman. Beshear decided to hire private counsel to do Conway's job for him, but Lee wanted to pay the costs of that outside lawyer from Conway's office budget.
44 Democrats did not vote. Many of these mush-for-spine Democrats probably claim that John F. Kennedy's book Profiles in Courage inspired them to enter public service.
It is easy to understand why Kentucky's Democrats have become such fraidy cats. Republicans need a net gain of only five seats in November to end the Democrats' long domination of the House that has left the state at the wrong end of so many measures of prosperity and well-being.
By running for political cover instead of taking political positions, these cowering Kentucky Democrats are merely following the example of their party's leader, President Obama. When Obama was a state senator in Illinois he voted "present" nearly 130 times, often to avoid hard votes.
Kentucky Democrats are rightly desperate to disassociate themselves from their party's Obamacare debacle. Beshear may have produced a working Obamacare website, but a recent analysis by Deutsche Bank warns of "deteriorating demographic trends" in his much-ballyhooed state exchange.
Unlike some in the Democrat-friendly state political press corps, the bank's analysts did not just uncritically parrot the Beshear administration's upbeat pronouncements. These objective professionals concluded that Kentucky is an "odd state to highlight as a national model of exchange success given the state's low exchange enrollment levels, high mix of older sign-ups, and much higher mix of Platinum plans relative to the national average."
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This year was always going to be a difficult one for Democrats, as they battle to keep their five-seat majority in the Senate. But in recent months, the political landscape has grown bleaker.
Lets start with the basics: Democrats have more seats at risk this year than Republicans do. Of the 36 Senate seats up for election (including three midterm vacancies), 21 are held by Democrats. And seven of those Democratic seats are in Republican-leaning red states that Mitt Romney won in 2012: Alaska, Arkansas, Louisiana, Montana, North Carolina, South Dakota and West Virginia.
The stakes are enormous. If Republicans take control of the Senate and keep the House of Representatives, theyll be able to pass parts of their conservative agenda that have been blocked until now. President Barack Obama will still have veto power, but hell have to spend his last two years in office stuck on defense.
Since the presidential election of 2012, the countrys mood has remained sour. The sluggish economic recovery has convinced most Americans that were still stuck in a recession, no matter what the economists say. Obamas job approval has slumped to record lows, thanks largely to the disastrous launch of his health care plan. That makes 2014 a bad year to be an incumbent especially a Democratic incumbent.
Compounding Democrats worries, Republicans are having a good year recruiting top-tier Senate candidates in both blue and red states. In Colorado, GOP Rep. Cory Gardner has turned Democratic Sen. Mark Udalls once-expected re-election into a race to watch. In New Hampshire, former Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., moved north this month and announced his desire to become Sen. Scott Brown, R-N.H.
Charlie Cook, dean of Washingtons congressional election forecasters, pronounced the Democrats challenges grisly.
And the mood wasnt improved by the victory last week of Republican David Jolly, who beat Democrat Alex Sink in a special election in Floridas Gulf Coast region for a vacant seat in the House of Representatives.
In Florida, Democrats thought they had a strong chance; Obama had carried the district narrowly in 2012, and Sink was a practiced campaigner. The Democratic campaign even outspent the GOP. But the untested Republican candidate won by almost 2 percent.
What happened? Democratic voters didnt show up. Only 53 percent as many ballots were cast in the district last week as in the presidential election of 2012. Among those voters, Sinks pollster, Geoff Garin, estimated that Republicans had a 13 percent advantage in turnout meaning his candidate did well by keeping the race close at all.
The question, of course, is why so many Republicans turned out and why so few Democrats did. The answer among strategists on both sides was: Obamacare. But not in the sense that the health care law is so unpopular that Democrats are doomed; in fact, as more people sign up for health coverage, polls suggest that Obamacare is a little less toxic now than it was last fall.
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