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Witha Democratic Congress and Senate virtually assured John McCain is trying to appeal to voters about the spectre of one-party rule in Washington.
From ABC News’ Jake Tapper.
There’s a topic that Sen; Barack Obama, D-Ill., and his campaign
don’t seem eager to discuss much, or at all, and it’s one that
Republicans are raising with increasing frequency in these final days:
the notion of one-party rule returning to Washington DC.
Speaking at the New Mexico State Fairgrounds in Albuquerque on
Saturday morning, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., raised the prospect of
Democrats controlling the White House, the Senate, and the House.
“Senator Obama is measuring the drapes and planning with Speaker
Pelosi and Senator Reid to raise taxes, increase spending and concede
defeat in Iraq,” McCain said.
It’s one of McCain’s closing arguments, and it makes sense. As ABC News’ Polling Director Gary Langer points out, many swing-voting independents don’t like the idea of one
party controlling the executive branch, as well as both houses of
Congress.
Independents, by 43-34 percent in the latest ABC News/Washington
Post tracking poll, say divided government is the better way to go.
And by 45-37 percent they say they’d rather see Republicans win
control of Congress. (Which ain’t gonna happen. As of now, House
Republicans lament, the only question is how many seats they lose.)
Neither party is particularly good at compromise and they both do a lousy job when they control the White House and both chambers of Congress and if Obama wins it won’t be any better this time around. Congress tends to do far less damage when they are forced to compromise and can’t run roughshod over the other party.
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With the first line of…“With a Democratic Congress and Senate virtually assured John McCain is trying to appeal to voters about the spectre of one-party rule in Washington.”
Exactly…. what happened here in 2007 with Labour winning in all states which put them in power…we had Labour Federal and Labour in all States. They weilded their power and rushed through all the BILLS and changes they could manage until the 2 Independent Senators came to power mid 2008. Now the voters in the majority of Australian States are beginning to see the errors of their way and the folly in voting this pack of leeches into power. There is a growing sense of dis-ease throughout Australia in many areas, in particular -the water situation, the immigration intake with this islamist threat to the world and their ‘touchy-feely winning hearts and minds’ of the muslim population and the economy. – I seriously doubt if these same Labour voters will repeat their mistakes come next federal election. Mr Rudd really showed his true colours after he won power and now he expects us to conform to his version of multi-culturalism instead of migrants to this country at least attempting to fit in. He (Rudd) expects us Aussies to be more like the Indonesians and learn their language, and other such ridiculous things and his love affair with China leaves alot to be desired. He professes to be a Christian, yet we do not hear him trying to ease the plight of Christians over there in China, instead he wants more business to go their way. I am sick of the way things are headed and I for one cannot wait to see the day when we have the Liberal Party back running this country.