Posted by
Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Thursday, November 05, 2009 11:07:50 AM
Election Day losses in Virginia and New Jersey have congressional Democrats focused like never before on jobs — their own.
While the White House and party leaders are urging calm, Democratic incumbents from red states and Republican-leaning districts are anything but; Tuesday's statehouse defeats have left them acutely aware that their votes on health care reform and other major Obama initiatives could be career-enders in 2010 or beyond. (Red-state Dems worried, rethink agenda... )
“I should be nervous,” said Rep. Parker Griffith, a freshman Democrat from Huntsville, Ala.
Griffith said the Democratic rank and file is “very, very sensitive” to the fact that issues being pushed by party leaders “have the potential to cost some of our front-line members their seats.
(They should be worried and us voters should be watching. Perhaps the fear of losing at the voting booth will save us from seeing government forced health care become the law of the land. )
