Terry Schiavo II: Electric Bugaboo

The GOP ignores the obvious...

There was an interesting post over at Kos about Wisconsin being this year's model of Terri Schiavo overreach.

I think that's interesting as a comparison.

The thing about Schiavo was that it did not happen in a vacuum.  Shortly after freaking out over a feeding tub in Florida, the GOP tried to privatize Social Security, and the Democrats put up a good fight to defend it.

A few months after that: Katrina.

So, while I do think that the polling is pretty clear that Walker has boxed himself into an ideological corner from which there is no retreat - just like theo-cons in the Schiavo case - there will need to be one more glaring example of the GOP attacking the middle class before we can definitively claim that the GOP is headed for a fall.

The Budget Battle would seem to be a natural.

The problem is that Obama is more concerned with having a budget than having a political fight.  No Drama Obama wants to do the people's business and "change the tone" and all that.  But the GOP's proposed cuts are ruinous and cruel.  And if a President whom 75% of Americans say they like steps up and defends the middle class, that would seem to reinforce his re-election.