Obama Attempts to Rally Progressives for 2010 Elections

A lot can happen in seven months, November is still a long way away. We would like to think the Republicans actually have a powerful voice right now because of all the media coverage they're getting, but I saw a poll recently saying tea party support among Americans was only hovering around 33%. And Obama's poll numbers are higher than Reagan's at the same point in his presidency.



This however is what's scaring me.



If everyone in the country actually shows up to the voting booth, I really don't think the Democrats will do that bad. But polls don't mean shit if people don't care enough to vote. The republican base is rallied as shit, and they're going to be turning up in droves. Plus, Republican candidates are going to have a limitless amount of corporate cash, and a lot of that ensuing propaganda will undoubtedly sway a lot of the dumbass independents. It doesn't look very good.

Once Republicans take Congress, you can fully expect the U.S. government to stop functioning entirely. Republicans will prevent anything from being accomplished, and then they'll say it was because of Obama. Someone at Daily Kos actually predicts they'll go for impeachment. I doubt it'll actually go that far, but... he puts forward an interesting case.

When the Republicans took over congress in 1994, the first thing they did was start serious and official investigations into the shadowy conspiracy theories of the loony right. They appointed a Javert-like investigator to turn over every rock, look at every paper, search in every crevice, to find SOMETHING, ANYTHING to use to destroy Bill Clinton. And eventually, they found it in early 1998.

Their actions were considered cruel and cynical and it indeed cost them in the elections that year -- but they still maintained their control of the House, so impeachment moved forward. Even though it was clear that the Senate and the American people wanted nothing to do with it, they forged ahead. Why? Their real goal was the White House in 2000.

And their plan worked. The impeachment of Clinton took enough shine off that apple to hinder Al Gore just enough to allow a certifiable sociopath to get close enough to winning the election that they could then use their legal spin and rigged Supreme Court majority to put him the rest of the way into the White House. The party of ME ABOVE ALL ELSE. ME ABOVE COUNTRY. ME ABOVE CONSTITUTION. ME ME ME MINE.

I'm really not worried at all about Obama's 2012 run though. If George Bush can win twice, anybody can win twice. And we might see some third-party candidates run like Ron Paul or maybe Sarah Palin, who will hopefully split the vote and make the possibility of any conservative winning out of the question.