Since Democrats only have a 78 seat majority in the House and an 18 seat majority in the Senate for a combined 96 seat cushion in Congress, the largest in modern history, Fox News warns that President Obama must be conciliatory and agree to compromise with the minority party or face alienating the "center." Incredible, it really is.
I love it, absolutely love it. Republicans pick up their first seat in 6 years with a special election and still have the smallest Congressional minority in recent memory; nonetheless, it means they now control the agenda in Washington. In what world can that be true?? Sadly, the one we live in.
This Fox News story will be picked up all over America. It will flood the net via Druge and talk radio via the Fox News Republican line up. It will take hold within the media elite that a 96-seat majority is actually powerless because Republicans believe they are Freedom Fighters from middle America. No one will ever question it. Not even the Democrats who have larger majorities than George Bush ever dreamed of and it wasn't until his second term did he get told no. Everyone will eventually believe Republicans have been revived and are now in charge because they picked up one special election.
People, like me, who question not only the math behind what constitutes majority rule, but the evident attempt by a media network to promote a political party, will be laughed off, portrayed as not serious and, as always, "anti-American." When can we start this over?
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