If Barack wins, a backlash is coming.
As Americans render what Catholics call temporal judgment on George
Bush, are they aware of the radical course correction they are about to
make?
This center-right country is about to vastly strengthen a liberal
Congress whose approval rating is 10 percent and implant in Washington
a regime further to the left than any in U.S. history. Consider.
As of today, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the San Francisco Democrat,
anticipates gains of 15-30 seats. Sen. Harry Reid, whose partisanship
grates even on many in his own party, may see his caucus expand to a
filibuster-proof majority where he can ignore Republican dissent.
Headed for the White House is the most left-wing member of the
Senate, according to the National Journal. To the vice president's
mansion is headed Joe Biden, third-most liberal as ranked by the
National Journal, ahead of No. 4, Vermont Socialist Bernie Sanders.
What will this mean to America? An administration that is either at war with its base or at war with the nation.
America may desperately desire to close the book on the Bush
presidency. Yet there is, as of now, no hard evidence it has embraced
Obama, his ideology, or agenda. Indeed, his campaign testifies, by its
policy shifts, that it is fully aware the nation is still resisting the
idea of an Obama presidency.
In the later primaries, even as a panicked media were demanding that
Hillary drop out of the race, she consistently routed Obama in Ohio and
Pennsylvania and crushed him in West Virginia and Kentucky.
By April and May, the Democratic Party was manifesting all the
symptoms of buyer's remorse over how it had voted in January and
February.
Obama's convention put him eight points up. But, as soon as America
heard Sarah Palin in St. Paul, the Republicans shot up 10 points and
seemed headed for victory.
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