Almost every poll asking the question has found either a majority or plurality expressing that their votes in the 2010 midterm elections will be about national issues and/or Barack Obama himself and his agenda. Even Obama admitted that his name was not on the ballot this cycle but his agenda is.So this story in The Hill stating that Barack Obama is prepared to "dust off his veto pen" should the GOP take the House and/or Senate, shows that Barack Obama will continue to ignore the will of his constituents, the voters, and he will suffer for it greatly in 2012.
GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has stated he will work to ensure Obama is a one-term president, but the GOP won't really have to if Obama refuses to acknowledge that if the massive, unprecedented losses that are being projected for tomorrow's election come to pass, it is a referendum on his policies and the Democrats complete lack of respect for the American voters.
If projections and all polls are correct and the Gop takes control of the House of Representatives or the Senate or both, then Americans will expect the GOP to fulfill their promises and if Obama obstructs them from doing so with veto after veto, the public is guaranteed to vote Obama out in 2012.
The best thing that could happen for the GOP is Obama dusting off the veto pen and showing the American voters that he doesn't give a damn about what they want.
"Voters don't want to be governed from the left, right or center. They want Washington to recognize that Americans want to govern themselves."- Scott Rasmussen.
Bring it on Barack, make it easy for the GOP in 2012. Go for it.
[Update] Flashback to 1994, when Clinton was President and suffered the same type of Defeat that Obama is looking at tomorrow.
Engineering a Presidential Comeback
Starting in 1995, after Clinton defeated the Republicans in the budget battles, he engineered one of the most impressive comebacks in presidential campaign history. Clinton moved decisively to emphasize his earlier commitments to reforms aimed at the middle class. To that end, Clinton brought Dick Morris back into his strategy team. As the President's old friend and political consultant who had helped engineer his gubernatorial comeback in 1982, Morris quickly identified the key issues where Clinton could preempt the Republicans: crime, welfare reform, the federal budget, and affirmative action. Morris came up with a strategy in which Clinton distanced himself not only from radical Republicans but also from the liberals in his own Democratic Party.
Clinton moved to the middle and let Republicans shoot themselves in the foot and went on to win his presidential reelection bid.
Anyone think Barack Obama will move to the middle as Clinton did?
Didn't think so.
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