With all the speculation of whether Republicans will take the House and or Senate in November, we have to look at the big picture. And the fallout from the results.
Let's look at the last time a Democrat president lost both chambers two years after being elected. It gave Bill Clinton the opportunity to play the victim. To blame everything on congress. And it allowed his re-election to be the check and balance the American people prefer. It was the Harry Truman prescription.
Looking forward, I would prefer to see the Democrats lose the house, with Nancy Pelosi having to hand the speaker's gavel over to John Boehner and accept her tenure as a failure. Then, over in the senate, the Democrats hold a razor thin majority, with Harry Reid not returning after losing his reelection bid. This prescription would allow Republicans to block much of Obama's socialist ideas, but not be seen as obstructionist. In order to be seen as progressive, the Democrat led Senate would be forced to compromise with Republicans...against Obama. President Obama would be issuing veto after veto (Making him the anti-progress candidate) and go into the 2012 election with the largest national deficit, massive government increases and, by then, miserably failed attempts to regulate the American way of life.
November's election will be a referendum on the Obama-Reid-Pelosi agenda. The outcome will dictate the way things are done in Washington for the next two years. And it will also create the road to the White House for each party and send a message to the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It makes me wonder if President Obama is ready for a dose of his own medicine. The American people want a new kind of "change". And the "Hope" this time going is for a cure for the ailing economy and the dependence on 'bailouts' and 'stimulus' packages.
