Bad news Democrats - 2012 could be worse than 2010

[Denny Crane]

You might HOPE for gridlock and lack of progress - in any direction - but that isn't my idea of a good outcome.

barfo

I don't see it as gridlock, I see it as a bunch of guys who aren't neo-cons pushing the republicans in a new direction, hopefully a better one.

My point was that unlike Pelosi's House, and the Republican House before that, the Party Machine isn't going to be able to steamroller its agenda through. Republicans needed 39 seats to gain control of the House, but even with the extra seats they gained, there's still enough of the Tea Party representatives to block that sort of thing.

The House under Pelosi and Republicans before that would pass all sorts of "out there" legislation that never even gets considered in the Senate. Like Cap and Trade.

Progress doesn't mean more government, more spending, more taxes, and ever increasing debt. In fact, I'd argue there hasn't been progress but the reverse. By measures that are important to main street, unemployment is way up, home values are way down, foreclosures have wiped out peoples' life savings, etc.

 

[Denny Crane]

See, there's progress after all!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/10/white-house-gives-in-on-bush-tax-cuts_n_781992.html

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's top adviser suggested to The Huffington Post late Wednesday that the administration is ready to accept an across-the-board, temporary continuation of steep Bush-era tax cuts, including those for the wealthiest taxpayers.

That appears to be the only way, said David Axelrod, that middle-class taxpayers can keep their tax cuts, given the legislative and political realities facing Obama in the aftermath of last week's electoral defeat.