Blaming the left for the Dems losses and the GOP tidal wave myth

The pundits that know so little about so much are pushing a narrative that the Democrats lost in a tidal wave because the country rejected them for being too liberal and now they need to compromise and move to the right. But that narrative is total BS.

First, the GOP failed to take the Senate which is the graveyard for many bills that make it through the house. And Obama’s in the White House and he can use his veto power, but instead he will do what Bill Clinton did and adopt the GOP’s platform.

If the article I linked to above doesn’t convince you Salon’s Glenn Greenwald and MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell had a very heated and interesting debate about it. O’Donnell was blaming the left for the Democratic Parties losses in the midterm election. Greenwald pointed out how progressive Democrats largely held their seats while conservative Blue Dogs-like Steve Driehaus lost half of their caucus and that is a good thing.

It starts here when Greenwald take on O’Donnell’s narrative. They went on MSNBC’s Morning Joe where the debate gets really heated.

Greenwald responds with the transcript after O’Donnell vehemently denies his own words. Then Greenwald went on O’Donnell’s show and they had a much more substantive and constructive discussion about questions like “Why did Democrats lose? What effect do Blue Dogs have? What's the real Blue Dogs agenda? Can Democrats win without them?”.

I think their debate touches on some important issues that people should really think about. And the last article I linked to has some good links with more discussion about the topic.