Cokie Roberts explains

[underpants]

"It's been difficult to govern, really, since 2000," says ABC News' Cokie Roberts, a long-time observer of Congress. "The country has been split down the middle and the Congress has been split down the middle. There's no reason to believe that that will really change after Tuesday unless there's a huge Democratic wave."

:wow: have another drink there honey :beer:

Much will depend on President Bush's response to the changes in Congress, analysts say.

"If he proves as flexible and adaptable as President Reagan," who had to deal with a Democratic House for his entire eight years as president, "he could do some business with a Democratic Congress on issues ranging from immigration to national security," says Thomas E. Mann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. "But smart money says he will stay the course in style and substance."

WHAT SUBSTANCE?? There is nothing behind the curtain even. It's all a empty spectacle

Oh well here is the article
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2006/story?id=2630173&page=1

[NOLADEM]

1. That crazy bitch is on drugs...just look at her

You don't get a name like Cokie without earning it.

[AndyA]

2. George Bush has already proven its his way or the highway.

He isn't going to extend a hand across the aisle to the other side. Give me a break! He's said that repeatedly, but his offer of working together has always been, "This is what I want, this is the way it needs to happen, and that's the way it's going to be." Not flexible at all.

The best we can hope for is a gridlocked system that prevents him from doing any more damage, and investigations into the past six years. Followed by impeachment proceedings.

After we sweep up the dirt and haul out the garbage, we can start off with a clean government and start doing some real repair work.

[katinmn]

3. Cokie has been around too long and believes the beltway bs

since she helped write it.

Time for Cokie to move on and make way for some reality-based journalists.

[WCGreen]

7. Yea, she has got the Beltway thing going real bad....

THinks she is important...

But no one really gives a shit about her out here in the heartland...

[Guava Jelly]

4. I cant f'n stand cokewhore roberts

she's a freaken repuke schill if i ever seen one

[evlbstrd]

5. Congress split down the middle?

Like my ass is split down the middle.

[KansDem]

6. Cokie reported on Shrub's "charm offensive" during Campaign 2000.

I remember hearing a "report" on NPR in which she told how Bush would use his "charm offensive" to get things done in DC. He was, "oh ,so 'charming,'" and he would be able to work with diverse viewpoints and opposing sides using that "charm."

Oh, yeah...and he gave nicknames, too. :puke:

I thought she hit rock bottom with that "report" and haven't listened to here since...

[central scrutinizer]

8. she's a tool and a hack

Her family is high powered lobbyists. Only an idiot would say Congress was split in half. The repukes are split in thirds: one third crooks, one third religious nutjobs, one third fascists.

[Demit]

9. If he proves as flexible and adaptable as President Reagan"—?!?!!!?

Six years isn't enough for Thomas Mann to hazard a guess as to how likely THAT is?

Although I maybe think I see a little hint of snark in his last comment, about the substance Bush will keep himself in to stay the course.

[underpants]

11. That was my comment

Sorry I should have made that clear.

[Demit]

14. No, I was referring to Mann's quote about "style and substance"

and I was making a (lame) joke about substance abuse.

Underpants, no one could ever miss your snark. It's right there in your name :)

[underpants]

15. ;-)

:hi:

[Norquist Nemesis]

10. Oh, I get it! Unless you're Sam Brownback or Marsha Blackburn

then you're obviously a Liberal. :eyes:

[liberal N proud]

12. I haven't listened to anything she has said for years

She is what Katie Couric wants to be.

[sallyseven]

13. She was the moderator of the Governor's

race debate here in Mass and she screwed up. She could not or would not enforce the rules. It became a huge mess. She should not give up her day job she will never make it anywhere else. What a moron. Hale Boggs must be spinning in his grave.

[Jai4WKC08]

16. On Washington Journal this morning

Some lady called in and pointed out that a Democratic majority would make an enormous difference, because of the committee chairs who control which bills go forward, which amendments are allowed, what hearings are called to find facts, and so forth. The politico (don't remember who it way... maybe from the Cook Report?) responded, oh, that's WAY too "Washington insider" for the average voter to understand or take into consideration.

:wtf:

Holy frijole, what the fuck is so complicated? I'm usually one of the first to think voters are stupid, obtuse, too lazy to do their homework and... well, you name whatever characteristic might explain their actions... or unwillingness to act. And I can also believe that maybe many people don't think about it in terms of party as opposed to individual candidates. But all I could think this this morning is, are they really that clueless? Or is it just one more actual Washington insider who looks down her nose at all of us unwashed masses out in the hinterlands who are incapable of understanding "the system."

Then you show me that the significance of majority status is lost on someone like Roberts who seems to be reasonably intelligent, who has access to as much info as she wants, and who gets paid to actually follow what's going on in politics!

I weep for my country sometimes....