WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Barack Obama is facing a Congress with bulked-up Democratic majorities in both the House and Senate to put much of his agenda into law.
Obama will inherit a Congress with Democratic House and Senate majorities comparable to those enjoyed by President Clinton when the party last controlled both Congress and the White House in 1992. While Democrats are eager to churn out the new president's legislative programs, they're also anxious to avoid the electoral wipeout that swept them from power in the 1994 congressional elections.
That's one reason top leaders like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi promise not to lurch to the left and give in to pent-up demands from party liberals.
"The country must be governed from the middle," Pelosi, D-Calif., told reporters Wednesday. "You have to bring people together to reach consensus on solutions that are sustainable and acceptable to the American people." full story here
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Time will tell.
Pelosi? Govern from the center?
What flavor kool-aid are we drinking today?
I remember we used to mix red kool aid with wood grain alcohol.
The motorcycle jump in the coconut grove late at night.
Been the ruin of many a poor boy.
And when we moved to Florida we would mix in the boiled extract from a particular mushroom found in cow patties.
Now you're talking.
Nancy (Stretch) Pelosi is not capable of governing from the middle. She does not know how! She & President-elect Obama are so far left that they will not be able to help themselfs but to govern from the extream left (my opinion).
And yes, I do predict that this will effect elections 2 years from now. I don't think Nancy (Stretch) Pelosi or President-elect Obama have the foresight to see the consiquences of there future legislation. But as Becki said, "time will tell".
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