The Coming Political Showdown

If 2009 was a good year for President Barack Hussein Obama, 2010 will certainly be a year he will wish he could run away from as quickly as possible.

Yes, the latter half of last year proved to be a little bit bumpy, especially with the Tea Party movement gaining ground over issues on healthcare and the national debt. The elections of two Republican governors in November abruptly ended his third honeymoon, a feat never given to other presidents in their first year.

However, 2010 will be a political revolutionary year for both parties, and here's why. For one, the Democrats are scared as hell of losing power once again. And, it looks like the main reason is Obama, according to the pundits.

But, blaming Obama for all the Democrats' political troubles is merely a scapegoat. Congressional Democrats have no one to blame but themselves for supporting the leadership running that entire body.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is a miserable failure who acts like Mussolini while her counterpart in the senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) looks like a bumbling fool who's been hit about the head a number of times. Neither inspires confide, but they retain their power because nobody in their caucus are willing to stand up against them for fear of retribution through loss of appropriations and committee chairs.

Democrats, however fearful of their leadership, are increasingly concerned of the coming mid-term election because, as history shows, the party that run the White House normally loses control of one or both bodies in Congress. Remember the election of 1994 and 2006?

Last week's testimony before the House Oversight & Government Reform committee, Treasury secretary Tim Geithner faced a tongue-lashing not only by the GOP but by the Democrats regarding his role in the bailout of AIG and others.

Democrats are also becoming more interested with homeland security issues to appear tough on the security front. But, will all this be enough to avert what is projected to be a significant loss in both chambers come November 2nd?

It's quite clear congressional Democrats, like congressional GOPers under Bush, are distancing themselves from President Obama. However, perhaps Democrats ought to distance themselves from Pelosi and Reid, too. Talk about two divisive personalities who are willing to skirt the House and Senate rules to pass healthcare legislation with a bare partisan majority vote rather than a super majority vote.

Said Pelosi with respect to healthcare legislaiton on January 28, 2010: "You go through the gate. If it's closed, you go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we'll pole vault in. If that doesn't work, we'll parachute in. But we're going to get health care reform passed for the American people."

It's such language flying in the face of massive popular uproar that is hurting the Democrats more so than Obama's anti-business rhetoric. The view that the government knows better than the people is a foreign concept liberals have been trying to plant into the American mindset.

So, expect 2010 to be a very turbulent year in politics. As for the GOP, well, there are a few RINOs who could use a pink slip. McCain certainly comes to mind.