Mitch McConnell gives Obama a tempting opening

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The Republicans successfully used Nancy Pelosi as the whipping post in the election. Obama should return the favor by accepting the unwitting gift of Sen. McConnell.
By Sam R. Sperry
Tuesday’s election gives President Barack Obama an interesting opening, an unwitting gift from the Senate Republican Leader, Kentucky’s, Mitch McConnell. McConnell said “the only way” for the Republican agenda to succeed was to put someone in the White House who won’t veto their proposals.

That’s throwing down the gauntlet. That’s also a challenge Obama should eagerly choose to counter. Whether Obama will do so is open to doubt. His 2008 campaign pledge to “change the way Washington works” was naïve to begin with. He couldn’t pull it off these past two years. Now he faces an openly hostile Republican majority in the House and a bellicose emboldened GOP minority in the Senate. For him to beat his head against this wall of partisan vitriol would be political foolishness.

Yet, seeing the more superficial aspects of Tuesday’s vote, many voices are calling for Obama to do just that, compromise, work with the Republicans. Sure. But the real question is how.

http://crosscut.com/2010/11/06/politics-government/20340/Mitch-McConnell-gives-Obama-a-tempting-opening/

[HopeHoops]

1. Silly Mitch. His "proposals" won't make it through the Senate anyway. There's nothing to veto.