Earlier today, we told you about Democratic strategist James Carville‘s CNN.com op-ed piece, which offered some characteristically blunt advice for the President: “Panic!”
CNN’s John King aptly described Carville’s advice as “the political version of a family intervention.”
Carville explained that dire times call for more drastic measures, opining that it is high time the White House demonstrates to the American people that it “gets it” by supplying “something different” — like, for example, holding people accountable. Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher was also on hand, reacting to Carville’s advice by bringing up the reality that many Americans right now are not only unhappy with the President’s performance, but with the state of Washington DC in general, including Congress. Carville responded:
Everything that Cornell says is true, but there’s one problem: We keep losing elections. And so what difference does it make if you say, “Well they like us better than they like the Republicans in Congress,” if they keep voting for Republicans?
He clarified that his op-ed piece reflected not so much the frustration of Americans in general, but of those within the Democratic party who are frustrated the status quo and with losing elections.
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