For me, the most forgivable offense is to tell the truth when you shouldn’t. So, I’m not mad at press secretary Robert Gibbs for admitting what everyone knows: that the Democrats could conceivably lose control of the House in November. Still, I understand why Nancy Pelosi is livid. It’s a cruel irony that she has delivered on Obama’s agenda, including a health care bill with a public option, an energy bill with a cap and trade provision, and more economic stimulus, but it is her members who are set up to pay the price for the Senate’s failure to do the same.
If the majority ruled in the Senate, we’d have a pretty happy progressive base, a president with a record of keeping his promises second to none, and significantly lower unemployment. Unfortunately, the 41 member Republican caucus in the Senate is in control and making sure that as many people as possible are unhappy. I am pretty sure that the people sent a message in 2008 that they wanted the Republicans to have no say in future policy decisions. That’s not what they got.