Winning enough seats to stop the agenda but not enough to be on the blame line as the party in control of Congress would be the best thing for us as we move towards 2012.

It ALWAYS comes down to that fundamental rule of professional politics: Keep your seat….at any cost.

With Democrats (and lately only them) history defines it pretty clearly for them even when there was no change in the leadership/majority in Congress.

Jimmy Carter was never going to change even (call it his natural stupidity or whatever) when it was clear the path he was on had failure written all over it. Maybe he knew Ronald Reagan was going to cream him anyways, but the last few decades have shown that Jimmy still hasn’t changed. Good to stick to your principals, but bad if you want to hold onto your seat.

Bill Clinton didn’t wait until the 1994 elections to change: the moment HillaryCare died he began to slow tick toward the middle. By the time the Republicans took over the House Clinton had one foot already in the moderate doorway. By 1996, against a weak Bob Dole and a third party candidate distorting the election, Clinton secured his second term at the expense of his base and the loss of many Democratically-held seats.

Although it did not effect him in 2004, the moment George W. Bush departed from the right to head towards the middle in 2005 spelled down for many Republicans in 2006. Unlike George Senior who waited one month into his Presidency to piss off every Conservative in America, Dubya waited five years: a bad miscalculation nonetheless.

Now whether the ObamaCare vote passes or not, Democrats will be heading into defeats next year: it’s certain. I say if it passes there will be major Democrat loses; if not, it won’t be so bad so long as Barrack Obama decides what’s good for his party and not for himself. Unfortunately for the rest of his party, if Obama pulls off a Clinton, they’re done.

remember people, these are extreemist radicals playing for keeps. They will gladly sacrafice defeat in 2012 to teach the next generation how to take down the free enterprise system.

One of Obama’s failures is that he has been trying to work with republicans. They clearly have no interest in working with him
Posted by rmiller
2009-11-22 13:33:01

There are two medical doctors in the US Senate. Not only has Obama not met with either one of them, he has refused their requests for a meeting. If you believe inviting a Senator from Maine to the White House is working with Republicans, then there is no hope for you. Obama has no interest in reaching an agreement with Republicans on healthcare. He would have to include tort reform, selling insurance across state lines, and othe things that might actually reduce the cost. The current legislation does nothing to lower costs, it is only an attempt to take over the healthcare industry. What makes you think that insurance companies can survive when their competition is also their regulator and their competition can print funny money at will. Private health insurance will not be able to compete in that kind of environment and will go the way of the Dodo.

I just hope that no one you care about needs a mammogram.