Keeping Up With the Kandidates

Stop it - you know he had that his first two years. And even with that, he fell all over himself, surrenderi­ng everything possible to the minority party.



As for the blue dogs, I'd have had a closed door meeting with them on day one of my term and laid it on the line. "You heard my campaign, so nothing I call for should be a surprise. If you're against these things, switch parties now so there will be no confusion. If your political strategy is to fight me publicly within the party, then get your resume together because I'm going to have the DNC run primary candidates against you. I'm not saying you have to rubber stamp everything­, but you will stop the games now." Then I would follow through.



Would it have worked? Maybe - maybe not. But what was done instead - throw away valid solutions to overwhelmi­ngly vital problems in exchange for useless compromise­s - has been an unmitigate­d disaster. We've lost so much more time and treasure in the process of b3nding 0ver for the wingers and there is no reason at all to believe that a stronger Dem Congress will elicit ANY change at all from O'sellout. After all, the President had a VERY strong Dem House and decided to hold back on submitting study requests to the House that would have forced reconcilia­tion votes in the Senate for things like tax break expiration­, etc.



Buck stops in oval office.
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