To Obama it means changing the occupant in the WH while retaining the disfunctional Congress -- regardless of who leads it Democrat or Republican... Note the Democrats control Congressional agenda making and therefore ARE ONE OF THE PARTIES IN POWER...
To McCain it means changing the dyfunctionality of the relationship between the WH and Congress... We have had 14 years of slim Congressional margins, the last time we had a decade or more of slim Congressional margins was from 1942 to 1958... LBJ and Dirkson learned how to make Congress functional in a bi-partisan fashion... The result of the historic CR legislation of 1964... Today, neither party has Congressional leaders who know how to work across the isle... The era since 1994 has been one of strong-arm one Party rule built on slender majorities... This reminds one of the Congressional stalemates from 1875 to 1896... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
