Obama may well “whip” his White House staff into shape, but he hasn’t grown the sort of teeth to successfully implement the sort of revolutionary things he (seems) to envision, via the Congress and the People.
I mean, he’s intimating radical change for the country, but the hard fact is, that this country is a BIG ship, that turns s-l-o-w-l-y.
Obama is a rock star, not a seasoned political operative. Listen to him. He’s all promise, and no production. He’s going to soon find out how things work in the real world of the ‘three branches of government’. The potentate, he ain’t, even if he and his enraptured followers think he is.
And just wait ‘til the fourth branch of the press is done with the honeymoon. Heh heh....
I suggest we work towards congressional victories in 2010. I’m sure that Obama will give us more than enough openings.
Gridlock sounds good and is perhaps the only way to defeat this juggernaut until a possible replay in 2012.