I just heard one of the pundits claim voters want divided government. This claim seems to turn up far more often when it looks like a Democrat is going to be in the White House; I don't recall anyone saying that when Bush ran for re-election in 2004.
Funny how that works.
Hah. See also.
Posted by Linkmeister at October 24, 2008 08:02 AM | TrackBackActually, you are not looking very hard. There was a large number of Democrats calling for Divided Government in 2006 in the blogosphere and main stream media. They are the ones that have disappeared, now that the Democrats are about to assume more concentrated power than the Bush administration could ever dream about, and the most we have seen in a generation.
I have been beating the divided government drum for two years on my blog. I voted for John Kerry to get divided government in 2004 and lost. I supported a straight Dem ticket in 2006 to get divided government and won. This year I will vote to re-elect divided government by supporting John McCain.
This scholarly article from a Constitutional lawyer puts more than a little academic cred behind the divided government thesis. The only way to re-elect Divided Government in 2008, is elect John McCain for President. It is the right thing to do.
Right. Because John McCain is a contemplative thoughtful man.
Even if I bought your thesis, I'd vote for Obama because of his temperament. I don't want a guy in that office who makes wisecracks about bombing Iran, who was strongly in favor of the Iraq fiasco, who was against torture until he was for it, who was against Bush's tax cuts until it proved necessary for him to embrace them to get past his own primaries, and who's generally a hot-tempered man who thinks he's entitled to be President.
No thanks. You're in danger of letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Besides, I trust Democrats' judgment in Congress far more than I did or do Republicans'.
Posted by: Linkmeister at October 24, 2008 05:25 PM