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In Losing the Midterms, There May Be Winning

If it goes against the Demos it will fit the pattern of other biennial elections. Clinton had the same. Truman before that.

Both sailed with it. Tacking. Against the wind.

I said below that Obama is a canny politician. He can do a lot with a bi-partisan government. Well, we have to say that it would be tri-partisan with the creeping politicization of the Supreme Court.

Running the whole thing is no picnic as we have seen since 2008. Political success requires conflict.

We have had plenty of that but the difference between governing and running will become very clear to the GOopers if, as seems likely, they will take control of the House.

First, they will not have a huge majority. Second, they will have to be in synch with a probable Demo-Senate.

And the Presidential veto to say nothing of the bully pulpit.

I don't think that things will change with the conditions of majorities and minorities. It is all too fluid.

I don't like it. I would appreciate a period of amity and congeniality. But then what? No issues, no decisions, no active electorate.

And then there is 2012. What a great thing for Obama to run against. A "do nothing Republican" Congress in the mode of Harry Truman and Bill Clinton.

Remember, Clinton humiliated Newt and Obama can do the same to Orange John who is not very canny about much of anything and is already embroiled in a tussle for leadership with the likes of Eric Cantor. Easy targets.

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