If Barack wins, a backlash is coming.
As Americans render what Catholics call temporal judgment on GeorgeBush, are they aware of the radical course correction they are about tomake?
This center-right country is about to vastly strengthen a liberalCongress whose approval rating is 10 percent and implant in Washingtona 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 partisanshipgrates even on many in his own party, may see his caucus expand to afilibuster-proof majority where he can ignore Republican dissent.
Headed for the White House is the most left-wing member of theSenate, according to the National Journal. To the vice president’smansion is headed Joe Biden, third-most liberal as ranked by theNational 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 Bushpresidency. Yet there is, as of now, no hard evidence it has embracedObama, his ideology, or agenda. Indeed, his campaign testifies, by itspolicy shifts, that it is fully aware the nation is still resisting theidea of an Obama presidency.
In the later primaries, even as a panicked media were demanding thatHillary drop out of the race, she consistently routed Obama in Ohio andPennsylvania and crushed him in West Virginia and Kentucky.
By April and May, the Democratic Party was manifesting all thesymptoms of buyer’s remorse over how it had voted in January andFebruary.
Obama’s convention put him eight points up. But, as soon as Americaheard Sarah Palin in St. Paul, the Republicans shot up 10 points andseemed headed for victory.