You Decide: Dems' Level of Grief

Bret Jacobson

A friend drew my attention to the seven stages of successful grieving, the first few of which sound an awful lot like the whining, recriminations, and bargaining we’ve heard since Democrats lost their super-majority after Scott Brown won the special election for Massachusetts’s open Senate seat.

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So, here are the 7 stages. See Which sound familiar from recent articles, and which steps to healing (our nation and our budget) Democrats need to walk:

  1. SHOCK & DENIAL

  2. PAIN & GUILT

  3. ANGER & BARGAINING

  4. “DEPRESSION”, REFLECTION, LONELINESS

  5. THE UPWARD TURN

  6. RECONSTRUCTION & WORKING THROUGH

  7. ACCEPTANCE & HOPE

In the comments below, help us fill out which steps they have covered so far and which steps they still need to take (and pass along to your friends).

Alternately, what are steps grassroots activists focused on limited government and personal liberty can do to increase the grief for big-government politicians heading into November?

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