First Move to the Center, Then Move to the Left
Dick Morris has a good article in Real Clear Politics today in which he describes how congress will force Obama to the left if he’s elected.
My personal belief is that he wants to be on the left anyway, but Morris talks about how Bill Clinton was forced to the left when he was in the same position that Obama will find himself in if he’s the guy.
Even if Obama means what he is saying as he moves to the center trying to win the general election, the fact is that he will be forced to move very far to the left should he become president, forced by the liberals in his own party.
If Obama wins, it’s more than likely that he will take office with a Congress filled with Democrats and liberals. Most probably, the Senate will have at least 55 Democrats (including pickups in Colorado, New Mexico, Virginia, New Hampshire and Alaska). And there might be as many as 62 (possible Democratic pickups include Maine, Minnesota, Oregon, Kentucky, Texas, Kansas and North Carolina). The House will, of course, be solidly in Democratic control.
The Bama makes for very interesting discussions, but I don’t see nearly as many conservative commentators talking about the impact of significant Democratic majorities in both houses. After the the 1976 election, I remember David Broder talking about how the really significant news wasn’t that Jimmy Carter got elected, but rather that in 1974 the Dems won big in both houses. He rightly pointed out that the Watergate Babies would be around the House and Senate for a long time given the advantages of incumbancy. [Read more →]
