Bilgeman (77)
“Mark my words, the “Age of Obama” has about 18 months life left in it.”
I’d say less than 18 months, maybe as few as six or seven. The lifers in Congress, especially the Senate, will be bailing on him as fast as they can before much longer. They have their own butts to worry about, not the party, not the president, not their “shared vision”. Nancy has played her last hand of poker with a stacked deck, and Reid is nowhere near tough enough to bully his pals into going along in spite of the turning tide of public opinion.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see a Senator or two from his own party start to mention the issue of his birth certificate as a way to let him know who is really in charge. House-o-Crats can be leveraged into voting for something like Cap-n-Tax just by assuring them the Senate is going to shoot it down anyway and then tossing them a doggie treat for their district. The Senate is a whole different beast, one that knows it can just ignore the wishes of the House and the Executive. Don’t count on the Senate staying on the sidelines and letting The One do to them what The Peanut did. It may even be the Senate that starts taking The One down well before the 2010 elections start in earnest, at least to the extent that they’ll be investigating more than a few of his appointees and “Czars”.
No way they let sleeping dogs lie much longer on the issue of there being super executive appointments that they have no power over. You can call them Czars, Pharaohs, Trojans, or anything else, they’re still nothing more than a thin film stretched over the will of chief executive when he wants to shove something down the throat of one economic sector or the other. It’s still the chief executive doing the shoving without the Senate having the right to get the blow by blow details on demand.
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