Paddling Upstream
Americans will cast Congressional ballots two weeks from Tuesday. Republicans must net a 40 seat gain in order to take control of the House of Representatives and thereby “fire” Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Most prognosticators, Democrat as well as Republican, now concede this is a likelihood.
Democrats are in big trouble because Americans reject what Congress has done over the past two years, i.e., shoving forward the ill-conceived policies of a Democratic president enjoying free-spending majorities of his party in both houses of Congress. The once adoring electorate is now skeptical of Obama himself (his job approval rate hovers in the decidedly unhealthy mid-40’s), but the greatest citizen scorn is reserved for Congress. The most recent Real Clear Politics averages reveal that only a paltry 21% approve of the present Congress, while a whopping 71% disapprove. Further, fully 63% of Americans believe that the country is on the “wrong track.” It is wholly unsurprising, therefore, that “big picture” pundits uniformly expect huge Republican gains this election cycle.
[Read the rest at The Clarion Ledger]
Category: Opinion Pieces
