The Democrats have mentioned Ronald Reagan as a case example of a President who has a bad Mid Terms and comes back to win big, in 1982 Reagan stated the following on the Mid Term losses of 26 on November 3rd 1982 “ Our target in the one House had been, as we said, somewhere between 17 and 27. Well, apparently it's turned out between 17 and 27 that we've lost in the House, but the main point is, and we're gratified, that we have not only maintained control of the Senate but that when we started 2 years ago we had 53, and we now have 54 Republican Senators. And we look forward to working with this Congress now in a bipartisan fashion to solving the major problems that still have to be solved…….But let me just say, first of all, there's a smile on our faces, and intentionally so. If you look traditionally at what has happened in a situation of this kind, we have every reason to feel good. A President, newly elected and who has brought in with him one house of the legislature -- or the Congress in his election -- this is the first time since 1928 that he has not lost, 2 years later, that House majority that he brought in with him. The average in times of economic stress -- the average loss in this 2-year election is 46. We feel very good about what's happened. Sure, we'd like to have won everything, but we knew we weren't going to.” Thus President Obama over the last two years has had the White House, the House and the Senate, in effect due to the need of 60 votes in the Senate to get any movement the Hill is gone, thus although the Democrats kept the Senate this is very much like 1994 with Obama facing a choice, keep to his ideology or make a move to the centre, the Guardian notes the following on the election defeat, “ one of the worst Democratic election defeats in 70 years.” The President at the Press Conference gave the impression that the defeat hadn’t really hit him yet, when the Republicans simply say NO to his Agenda and he cant move it, the real political horror will hit him, Reagan in his press conference turned the issue in to a positive, they had kept the losses in the House to below the norm, also they had added a Senator, Obama didn’t have that to say, one gets the feeling that Obama still has YES MEN around him that don’t want to tell him the political truth, if he wants a second term he will have to pull ObamaCare, that’s the choice, in political life you sometimes get such a simple choice.
Wednesday, November 03, 2010
Reagan vs. Obama - Mid Terms
The Democrats have mentioned Ronald Reagan as a case example of a President who has a bad Mid Terms and comes back to win big, in 1982 Reagan stated the following on the Mid Term losses of 26 on November 3rd 1982 “ Our target in the one House had been, as we said, somewhere between 17 and 27. Well, apparently it's turned out between 17 and 27 that we've lost in the House, but the main point is, and we're gratified, that we have not only maintained control of the Senate but that when we started 2 years ago we had 53, and we now have 54 Republican Senators. And we look forward to working with this Congress now in a bipartisan fashion to solving the major problems that still have to be solved…….But let me just say, first of all, there's a smile on our faces, and intentionally so. If you look traditionally at what has happened in a situation of this kind, we have every reason to feel good. A President, newly elected and who has brought in with him one house of the legislature -- or the Congress in his election -- this is the first time since 1928 that he has not lost, 2 years later, that House majority that he brought in with him. The average in times of economic stress -- the average loss in this 2-year election is 46. We feel very good about what's happened. Sure, we'd like to have won everything, but we knew we weren't going to.” Thus President Obama over the last two years has had the White House, the House and the Senate, in effect due to the need of 60 votes in the Senate to get any movement the Hill is gone, thus although the Democrats kept the Senate this is very much like 1994 with Obama facing a choice, keep to his ideology or make a move to the centre, the Guardian notes the following on the election defeat, “ one of the worst Democratic election defeats in 70 years.” The President at the Press Conference gave the impression that the defeat hadn’t really hit him yet, when the Republicans simply say NO to his Agenda and he cant move it, the real political horror will hit him, Reagan in his press conference turned the issue in to a positive, they had kept the losses in the House to below the norm, also they had added a Senator, Obama didn’t have that to say, one gets the feeling that Obama still has YES MEN around him that don’t want to tell him the political truth, if he wants a second term he will have to pull ObamaCare, that’s the choice, in political life you sometimes get such a simple choice.
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