PoliticsUSA: Primary results: Democrats split to r+t and left of Obama

37% of Democrats now reject the Wall Street bailouts by the USA federal govt, bailouts organized briefly by former President Bush and then soon led by President Obama; but under Obama's Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy Geithner, the Dem regime became operationally pro-active in those bailouts and in hoarding money allocated by the TARP law, to apply those funds to the account of future bailouts of the Wall Street banking, financial, and derivatives industry (to say nothing of the insurance banking hub AIG or the housing whorehouses that unplugged it all, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac).

37% of Democrat reject the regime's Obamanomics -- so says a News Hub videocast online, emanating from MarketWatch and Wall Street Journal. The telltale and rather astounding remark came in the midst of a quick report on ton+t's primary elections, particularly the win of Pennsylvania Democrat Joe Sestak over the incumbent Democrat Senator Arlen Specter (around 11:30 pm, May18,2k10). The Spector defeat was part of a trend in which "Obama and primary candidates kept each other at arms length," says Anne E. Kornblut in Washington Post (May19,2k10). Altho Sestak opposed Obama and the Dem establishment in Pennsylvania, his politics trend decidedly leftward and his early support came from the left. But there resides the glimmering ambiguity in Sestak's campaign, expressed thus:

Having run as an outsider, Sestak told cheering supporters his triumph marked a "win for the people over the establishment, over the status quo, even over Washington, D.C."

What is Nancy Pelosi thinking about this perhaps slip of tongue?

Yet, both elements of the Obama/PA-establishment wingism seem to have been rejected by many Democrat rank-and-file voters -- who suddenly are gaining the courage to vote for profLifers, antiBailouters, and spendingCutters among Democrats. I don't know how much of this foregoing alternative Dem profile fits Sestak, perhaps some small splinters of it. But then there are folks like Mark Critz of Johnstown, who just won both the Democratic primary for the November Congressional elections, and simultaneously Western Pennsylvania's special election to fill immediately the seat of deceased porkbarrel-king John Murtha in Pennsy's 12th Congressional district? PA-12, upon which Obama's staff had glued its attention, forsaking apparently all others (Spector, Lincoln). Obama made a campaign visit or filed a TV endorsement once for each of them, then "threw them under the bus" by ignoring them both in the final days before the vote, according to the pundits.

Critz defeated Republican businessman Tim Burns, who had run on a traditional pro-life, pro-gun, conservative platform and an explicit pledge to repeal President Obama's health care bill.

Interjection: I think I woud have voted for Critz, not Burns -- because I don't countenance "repeal" of the Healthcare Law, rather I advocate a radical reformation of it, so that the 32 million without insurance somehow get basic coverage. But maybe that puts me in an "insoluable dilemma." Nevertheless, to keep inclusive healthcare as an entitlement, other things in the budget will have to be severely cut, the bureaucracy slashed, and the debt paid down. Tax cuts are necessary to encourage the growth of small business and the hiring that comes therefrom, jobs creation. These are the complex consequences that come from not repealing in toto the new Healthcare Law and providing a safety net for the 32 million.

Although Critz was also pro-life and pro-gun, he kept his overall campaign message closer to home, promising to bring better highways and infrastructure, along with jobs, to the blue collar Western Pennsylvania district.

In sort, the Murtha Strategy -- minus some of the predecessor's buffoonery.

The campaign of Dem incumbent Blanche Lincoln in Arkansas, who opposed Obama on some important issues to prevent the growth of the Federal deficit (she has an accounting law background), her campaign has been remarkable for its persistence. All the unions and the leftwing moneyed-interests supporting the Obama-agenda Dem leadership was insufficient to knock her out of the race. She gets to replay her campaign in a runoff contest on June 8, because she did not get an absolute majority of votes -- which were distributed among the field of candidates, she being the incumbent. But, of wider significance perhaps, the unions coud not knock her off her game, even tho she opposed the infamous Card Check plot to de-democratize nationwide the unionization process (whereas Sestak supports the inherent breach of freedom of association in that nefarious plot); the endorsement of Card Check rather than a secret-ballot vote is Obama's payback to the secular unions for their support, where sometimes they have served as enforcers (yes, the Obama machine has enforcers: like the Black Panthers at the polls in Philadelphia, like the SEIU thugs trying to subvert tea-party assemblages in Idaho/Nevada, like the ACORN strong-arm squad). "Chicago-style politics." NYT "Specter defeat signals a wave against incumbents"

On the Democratic side, organized labor, which invested millions into the races in Pennsylvania and Arkansas, did not achieve a victory in either state. On the right, another show of Tea Party strength left the Republican party leadership scrambling to reconnect with the grassroots.

But, in Arkansas, Labor coudn't marshall the laborers to serve the self-interests of organized secularistic unionism (I'm an advocate of Christian Labor Association USA, but that's another news story).

On the Republican side, Rand Paul, the opthamologist son of Congressman Ron Paul (who ran for President on the Libertarian ticket in the last election and is himself a medical doctor), was warmly supported by the Tennessee tea-party movement. If we add Tennessee to the roster that already included the Massachusetts Senate race not so long ago, the New Jersey gubernatorial race, and the Virginia governorship race (all Republican wins) -- add them to the primary wins of a conservative Democrat in PA-12, and Blanche Lincoln's successfully withstanding, at least in the first round (the second vote will be held June 8), in defiance of the Obama onslawt in Arkansas: taken all together, we see a bipartisan trend against Obamanomics.