Quote Originally Posted by Dave Byrd
Everyone out there probably thinks this is all Democrats' idea of a dream, this majority rule situation. I want to go on the record saying that's not true for me. The reality is it'll be less hard for the chief executive and both houses to get legislation passed, etc. But it'll still be slow at times. It's Washington. There'll still be opposing forces within the party and people arguing over projects and priorities (and pork).

I'm a moderate Demo, and I'm uneasy with this whole thing. For one thing, my money and everyone else's always does better when there's some balanced power somewhere in the executive-legislative branch. The stock market would like it a lot better if at least one house of Congress were still Republican. Plus this is just a damn hard economic time for the country to be passing too much tax-break or social program legislation. We're living beyond our spending means now.

This victory was impressive because it happened. It's still going to be slow going to deliver on all that promised change in this environment. At the rate the businesses and banks are failing and people are losing their jobs and homes, we may all end up living in tents. I hope the new president and Congress will wow us all and pull our nuts out of the fire but I think the next two years are going to be downright scary. Two other things are keeping me on edge, too: the extra vulnerability of this president to the haters and neo-Nazi skinhead types. Plus our country's vulnerability while it's in a recession and while we're still so dependent on foreign oil, to an act of terrorism either here or in the mid-East.
I have my misgivings about the concentration of power too. But I support most of Obama's platform, so if the majorities in congress can help get that agenda moved quickly I will be happy about that.

Honestly, I trust Obama to be measured, bipartisan and restrained a lot more than I trust the Democratic House and Senate, so I will be lookng to him to keep them on a short leash. He's going to have more difficulties with his own party overreaching than he is with the minority being obstructionist, I think.