Tuesday, February 09, 2010

The Politics of 60 - US Senate

Fox News: Reports on the first nominee defeat for the Obama Administration, the Senate has rejected a Obama nominee that would deal with employment law. Thus the Obama Administration is now the seeing havoc the Republicans can cause by just winning one extra seat in the US Senate. The Republicans can now filibuster the Obama Agenda, and it does not hurt them on the political front, in fact it gets them votes. The Obama poll ratings have gone south, the more the President is in the low 40s the less power he has on the Hill. Thus POTUS might find that after November and the Mid Term Elections that he does not have a domestic agenda any more, in fact he had to move to the centre or centre right just to be relevant on the Hill. In pure political terms Obama needs to lose health care reform and hope it goes away by November, his nightmare is that the Democrats pass the Senate and Bill and he has to defend it for eight months. THAT'S A POLITICAL NIGHTMARE!.

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