But a Democrat strategist told Bryon York of the Washington Examiner that House empress Nancy Pelosi was comfortable with losing “20 to 40” seats in the lower chamber as the price for getting health care “reform” passed. A loss of 40 seats would mean flipping the House to GOP hands, and instead of crossing swords with bogeymen like radio talk show hosts or unemployed former governors, the president would for the first time have to deal with a Republican who wields real power. The prospect of Obama trying to wheedle and cajole John Boehner the way Ronald Reagan wooed Tip O’Neill should brighten every conservative’s outlook.
If even Pelosi is writing off up to 40 seats, it should be a bright year for Republican House candidates. Assuming incoming Speaker of the House Boehner or another Republican leader is able to keep his troops united — and lately the Republicans have displayed the harmony of an Olympics-caliber synchronized swimming team — that means an end to the glory days for Team Obama.
The liberal path to our national salvation is about to get itself a nice concrete roadblock.
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So how much can the Obamatrons get accomplished in the next 12 months? Twelve months, it turns out, isn’t even enough to accomplish something Obama thought he could do with a stroke of a pen — close Guantanamo Bay. Administration officials are now saying that won’t happen until at least 2011.
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With 60 seats in the Senate and a huge majority in the House, Democrats still needed the entire year to pass their health care bill — and that project isn’t even finished. Lately reports out of the Hill have been saying that the final push to reconcile the House and Senate bills won’t take place until February. If the rejiggered bill loses even three votes in the House, it fails. Pro-life Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mi.) has said he can’t support a bill that is as friendly toward federal abortion funding as the Senate version, and he says he there are 10 other Dems who voted for the House version who feel the same way.
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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/obama_last_year_Qt9KI3wKNO0fUDO3aq89bO
Como? Presidents serve two year terms now?
You should learn when the next presidential election is. I don’t think your antenna is picking up all the channels.
And year four of Democrat control and policies.
I sure hope you’re right…
the first order of business…
REVERSING everything that CAN BE UNDONE and…
Giving back to the tax payer – all the money they took under the guise of it being GOOD for America.
Keep dreaming, Neocon. Dreams are steel free.
Keep dreaming because it will eventually turn into your worst nightmare and I am loving it.Obama 2012!!!
Nice post.
Definition of Liberal from answers.com
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1. The state or quality of being liberal.
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1. A political theory founded on the natural goodness of humans and the autonomy of the individual and favoring civil and political liberties, government by law with the consent of the governed, and protection from arbitrary authority.
2. often Liberalism The tenets or policies of a Liberal party.
3. An economic theory in favor of laissez-faire, the free market, and the gold standard.
4. Liberalism
1. A 19th-century Protestant movement that favored free intellectual inquiry, stressed the ethical and humanitarian content of Christianity, and de-emphasized dogmatic theology.
2. A 19th-century Roman Catholic movement that favored political democracy and ecclesiastical reform but was theologically orthodox.
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True Liberalism is a blessing .
I shudder to think that this country would return to the Dark ages of the Bush administration.
2010 is kryptonite for Obozo.
Yes i can’t wait until repubs start closing the doors on obama, it will be buetiful to watch liberals call us racist and cry and make up lies because they can’t get their way, maybe they will go back to marching with commie flags and go underground with Billy Aieres
I don’t see how things would change if the GOP took back the House and Senate. Obama isn’t getting any of his promises filled via congress under Democratic rule, maybe he’ll have better luck with Republicans. It’s hard to imagine the GOP coming up with a more annoying leader than Nancy Pelosi. Would someone please inject her eyelids with a muscle relaxant?
The republicans who have stonewalled and stripped this healthcare bill to what it is now, should all be voted out of office next election. That is what should happen. They are not serving the American public as they should.
It means one of two things, either Obama knows we will not have elections in 2010 or he wants Republicans to take control, so he can blame them for his failed presidency in the 2012 elections **********************************************************************************
You’re lame
Tick, Tick
Times already up for the repubs, get used to it. The majority of americans don’t favour their power elite and corporate brown nosin and their automaton drone-like unquestioning borg collective you refer to as a harmonious syncronized swimming team is irrationally fearful, mulish, and backwards. Who do you think is causing this congressional constipation and holding back any real progress in the US anyway….
You repubs might gain a little more credibility if you actually had the integrity to self-analyse and be a little more self-critical. I’m not a big fan of democrats either, but at least they are more capable of admitting to mistakes and to being fallible.