The Dem's Beautiful Nightmare

As we enter the final weeks before mid-term elections, the rhetoric increases daily about how the Democrats will lose a lot of ground to the GOP because of voter sentiment and dissatisfaction. It's no secret that Americans vote their pocketbooks, but don't think this election is in the bag for the majority party. There's still a slight hangover from the previous administration and the Dems are doing all they can now to remind voters of it. Is it too little, too late? You may think so at first, but I believe it's a well-planned effort by the DNC to not be so quick to point fingers so as to give the RNC more ammunition to fire back. Both parties want to be on the defensive because voters like to see the responses, and he who laughs last usually wins the fight. The RNC knows this and that's why you see continuous "baiting" from them on any/all fronts, whether it's the Don't Ask, Don't Tell issue (funny how that just came up this month) or the economic downturn (but not too fast -- we don't want voters to remember how it all started...or do we?). DNC, on the other hand, has their own baiting with the recent Foreclosure Moratorium (again, funny that it just came up this month) and the economic downturn (but not too fast -- we don't want voters to remember how's it been going in the past two years). It's a bob-and-weave scenario that will play out for another couple of weeks. We see that former President Clinton is now starting to stump, and the current POTUS is positioning himself for his own last-minute stumping, too. Frankly speaking, it's the "quiet" consensus among the pundits that the best thing for Obama is to have the GOP regain the majority in the House, reason being that (1) history has shown more success when the Legislative Branch and the Executive Branch are controlled separately, and (2) this will give each of them a "legitimate" target to blame if things take too long to resolve or initiate. Fact is that voters want to see results that both parties worked on, and no more bitching about the other side. Sure, there's always room for complaints, but remember that those complaints are usually designed to get the other side to compromise and move stuff forward. Of course the DNC will never admit that this is what they want, and it's so funny to see Obama come out now with weak admissions of failure to get out the true message and trumpet the successes of the administration in the past two years (and yes, there have been a few). If the Dems keep control of Congress, hurray, the voters have spoken and we get more of the same. If the GOP regains control of Congress, hurray, let's see you put your money (well, actually, our money) where your mouth is and get off the pot! Just know one thing, as we head into the 2012 general election: be careful what you wish for.