Senate Democrats Angry at President Obama
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|| President Obama is raising tens of millions but Senate Democrats are struggling with monsy. ||
Greed is Good?
Senate Democrats are getting concerned.
They have 23 members up for re-election in 2012,
And President Obama is sucking up all the party’s cash.
Senate Democrats are increasingly concerned that Barack Obama’s campaign money machine is sucking up so much cash that it will cut into the party’s aggressive campaign to hold on to the Senate next year, several Democratic sources say.
Democratic senators have already pressed Obama campaign officials — including campaign manager Jim Messina — not to lock up the richest Democratic donors, but the presidential campaign declined to make such a promise.
Majority Leader Harry Reid and other top Senate Democrats have also asked for at least $10 million in aid from the Democratic National Committee as well as the president’s re-election campaign to help underwrite expensive TV ad campaigns and on-the-ground efforts for crucial Senate races in 2012, according to Democratic sources.
In a recent meeting in Washington, Reid, along with Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), the third-highest ranking Democrat, and Sen. Patty Murray (Wash.), who chairs of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, made their pitch to Messina, according to Democratic sources.
Messina would not agree to the request not to max out big donors, and no decision was made on the amount of financial backing that Senate Democrats will get from the DNC and the Obama-Biden campaign.
Democrats believe Obama’s robust campaign infrastructure will benefit a number of their Senate candidates in pivotal presidential swing states, but it’s not clear how much emphasis the president’s team will place in a handful of other states where Senate races could determine the balance of power in the chamber next Congress.
“We have a huge number of incumbents who are up this cycle and a lot of them have taken tough votes to enact significant portions of this president’s agenda and I think that there is a sense that there should be an all-hands-on-deck approach to keep the Senate in Democratic hands,” said one Democratic official familiar with the meeting.
It seems that Harry Reid is learning what the rest of America already knows.
President Obama only cares about President Obama.
And it’s doubtful that he’s going to “share the burden.”
Centrist Democrats would consider voting for a Republican like Jon Huntsman. Moreover, independents such as myself who object to the monopoly Dems & Repubs have on politics always look to the candidate most independent from the ideologues of their party, in the absence of a viable true independent.
Jon Huntsman is not a centrist, he’s a liberal.
You may say that you’ll consider voting for him, but polling shows that few others will.