November 7, 2009

Dems Need to Focus on the Economy

Eleanor Clift, Newsweek

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Sometimes I think the Democrats have a death wish. For Harry Reid to ruminate about putting off health-care reform until next year is to give the Teabaggers even more time to stir up populist outrage about an out-of-touch Congress. With every poll showing that the No. 1 concern among voters is the weak job picture, the White House seems unresponsive. The news, first reported by BusinessWeek, that Goldman Sachs received a supply of H1N1 vaccine before many New York City hospitals fed into the simmering anger over the favored treatment of Wall Street. (Click here to follow Eleanor Clift)

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