@maxdancona,
It's pretty typical for partisans from both sides to dig deeply to find the pony.
The GOP controlled congress might easily screw the pooch, but it looks like they've learned some lessons. You'll note that this election cycle's gaffes were almost all from Dems. Somehow they managed to prevent Todd Aikens' implosions.
It's pretty silly to expect the legislative branch to govern.
They will send a lot of bills to Obama, and we'll see what he does.
One of the first ones will involve the Keystone Pipeline. He might veto it just out of pique. That would be a mistake.
Even if one is among the irrational partisans who believe that Tea Party "members" are the personification of evil, one should be capable of understanding that, at the very least, there are millions of evil Americans who disagree.
I suspect that even the most fervent of conservatives in congress understand that the real prize comes in 2016. I doubt they are going to rock the boat so roughly that the GOP actually screws that pooch.
If Obama's decline continues, as I feel sure it will, it will not be good news for Hillary. She can try to distance herself from him, but that will only work so far. He's a Democrat and she's a Democrat. If in the next two years his approval goes down further, Democrats's approval does too.
She doesn't have a fraction of the charisma Obama or her husband had. She's gaffe prone and dull on the stump. The nation isn't going to see her as a reflection of something brand new in 2016.
In this election cycle she did nothing positive for Dem candidates.
Obama can make the way easier for her by pulling a "Bill" move to the center, but I doubt he will.
It's really stupid to assume that either party doesn't know what they are doing. It wasn't only anti-Obama sentiment that led to yesterday's wave.
