Posted on 10/22/2011 12:59:51 PM PDT by tomd2
It's typically treated as pretty newsworthy when a majority of a president's own party votes against a signature presidential initiative. Double that when over two-thirds do so. Triple the newsworthiness when it's the first time that magnitude of opposition has occured in a president's tenure. These political shifts are likely to have major consequences in the upcoming elections. Many Democrats have - like the movement on the streets - declared their political independence. Will it be enough to make up for being down-ticket from a president who flip-flopped on his own campaign pledges to overhaul U.S. trade policy? The world will be watching.
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I predicted this months ago and as the Congressional Elections draw closer, you are going to see many more Democrats abandon ship as districts they thought were safe not to long ago, will move into the cat of toss up or Republican-leaning.
Oh, the media hasn’t missed it.
Shouldn’t that be abandoning the prez until the elections are over after which they can continue their anti-Free-America, marxist-promoting ways? LIBs and RINOs can rot.
Oh, they know about it. They only report what’s “fit to print”.
In all fairness, the state run “media” has its hands full right now trashing Republicans, Americans and America. The “elections” are coming up fast. Gotta trash those non-foreigners living in this country.
FDL’s Jane Harmon has been a renegade off the reservation ever since she began to realize Obamacare was going to be a huge debacle, (Obama’s Pharma Sellout), that wasn’t going to bring Universal Health Care to anyone.
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