Gridlock? Bring it on.


Pollster John Zogby says in Forbes most Americans predict that if Republicans win control of either chamber of Congress, they won’t compromise with President Barack Obama. Nor do many even expect much in the way of new ideas.

But here’s the kicker: they’re evenly split on whether the resulting gridlock in Washington would be better or worse than having Democrats in control.

Parsing deeper you find a partisan divide, but even so, Zogby found that about one fifth of Democrats are unwilling to give Obama’s policies more time to work. If that’s reflected in a defection of Democratic voters in this election, the party’s losses, Zogby says, will be devastating.

Here’s a link to the poll he based it on.

Jay Jochnowitz

One Response

  1. iknowtruthismine says:

    The Right-wing has declared war on the rest of us, and their armed troops (the entire corporate owned Republican Party and as many as corporate wealth has also corrupted within the Democratic Party) are out to crush the last vestiges within our corporate corrupted nation and government, that still stand for the concept of government of “We The People”. Because the corporatists don’t have enough numbers to assure their dominance, they have created the illusion that the policies they desire are the pinnacle of moral governance (Ayn Rand type doctrinaire dogma) that the uneducated can absorb for its simplicity and religious like countenance. Without the lazy clueless rubes at the bottom, they would never hold enough of the government to control it, or, because it makes little difference to them, destroy it when convenient. The dead-lock we are about to see is just the corporate Right’s latest tactic in the war to render us a once noble idea that just didn’t fit in with the desires of the few at the top who have acquired (by hook or by crook) the vast majority of the total wealth of the nation.