Brass Knuckling Congressional Policy

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In a stunning display of utter duplicity Madame Screecher and Harry "The Nervous Chihuahua" Reid offer a hand of friendship to Republicans. While reminding them, ever so gently, that there is a pair of political brass knuckles, better known as a "mandate," in the other .

Taken from the Washington Wire, WSJ Online.

"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada declared that the American electorate gave the Democratic Party a “mandate” as he pledged to aid the middle class and restore fiscal responsibility to “lead this country to a much better place."

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California pledged bipartisanship and civility in Washington, D.C. Obama built much of his campaign around changing the culture of Washington.

“We have a great deal of work to do, and we can do some of it right from the start,” she said. “But the rest of it will take a while. We must take a very deliberate, steady course for America. That’s exactly what Barack Obama is prepared to do.”

Over the past two years, the leadership of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi has been nothing more than an attempt to bulldog progressive policies through Congress. The only redeeming features was a President who is an ardent partisan himself and had no fear of using his veto. In the end, they were two extremes, which balanced each other out, but also caused political stagnation. But now that is not the case, we have a hyper Liberal President with a Congress being led by a hyper-Liberal caucus. To think that there won’t be a rubber stamp philosophy in Washington is naive.

This situation brings the Lord Acton adage to mind," Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." This has applied to the Republicans as well as the Democrats. Look at the past decade and a half of barren partisanship, neither party has displayed any desire for cooperation with the other. Especially if that party was holding a very comfortable majority.

So, forgive the 56 million of us in the electorate who question their offer of cooperation and if we are rightfully leery about their motives. Most know it is very easy to speak in niceties about your opponent when celebrating your victory. Nevertheless, it’s a whole other ballgame when it comes time to get to work and you have a pair of political brass knuckles in your pocket.

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Montana: Local Business Owner thinks Obama plan is "Poop Sandwich."

BUTTE, Mont.--

Democrats are criticizing a 38-year-old man who parked a trailer load of manure across the street from Whitehall's Democratic campaign office to protest presidential hopeful Barack Obama.

Terry Reed, who owns a construction and excavation company in Whitehall, parked the trailer near the office on Saturday. He also posted a sign in the manure mocking Obama's "change we can believe in" slogan as "a load of crap." Read more...

Well I think we know who this gentleman is not voting for. I like his protest method, pretty original.

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What if Obama loses, who goes to the gallows?

Pundit,

It's no secret that most Conservatives aren't fans of the MSM. We often hearken for their demise, in a figurative sense of course. That's why when CT posted the article, Slate-to-Slate polling, I thought it would comical to follow it up with an even more interesting article provided by Slate, If Obama Loses, Who Gets Blamed?

John Dickerson, the author, contemplates what an Obama loss would mean,

CLEVELAND—If Barack Obama wins the election, it will be historic. And if he loses, it will be pretty historic, too: It would mark the biggest collective error in the history of the media and political establishment.

An Obama loss would mean the majority of pundits, reporters and analysts were wrong. Pollsters would have to find a new line of work, since Obama has been ahead in all 159 polls taken in the last six weeks. The massive crowds that have regularly turned out to see Obama would turn out to have meant nothing. This collective failure of elites would provide such a blast of schadenfreude that Republicans like Rush Limbaugh would be struck speechless (another historic first).

This situation lends a feeling of unreality to the proceedings as we begin to measure the time until Election Day in hours. It is the elephant on the campaign plane. No one is letting on. Journalists aren't supposed to. Plus, we've been wrong so often, and politics can be so unpredictable, it would be dumb to say that Obama is going to win big.

Of course after all this talk about Obama, Mr. Dickerson felt the Mathews tingle up his leg. Like an excited mutt that just got through peeing on the floor, he proceeded to trash a fairly good article. Showering praises on Obama for his metrosexuality and GQ-ishness. Dickerson for Godsake, stay on topic! As it is, you might be out of a job soon.

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Slate to Slate Polling

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Slate has some interesting dynamics it just put out. Seems there has been a shift in state-to-state polling and it is moving in McCain's direction. Coincidentally, Mac is campaigning hard in the NorEast and with the release of Obama's coal video there might be some waves up in the Keystone State shifting it to him. Unlikely, but that is coal country after all.


Here is an excerpt from Slate,

Of 20 new statewide polls, 15 show a shift in McCain's direction. The biggest comes from a SurveyUSA poll in Kansas, where McCain leads 58-37; he led 53-41 in the same poll a week earlier. CNN/Time/Opinion Research Corp. and Quinnipiac polls in Florida showed shifts toward McCain of one and three points, respectively, though both polls still show Obama ahead.

This little surge is expected, especially when national polling, a few days back, was showing McCain closing gaps. To me, this is more important than the national polling data due to the what it represents for the electoral votes. This is what this election has been about for the past three months.

Now the question still remains, does McCain/Palin have the ground game to cover the space needed in time. The next 48 hours or so will answer that question. I wonder if Barack Obama feels like the New England Patriots did at the start of the Super Bowl.

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