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That would be the headline, you know.
If -- hopefully, when -- the Administration and Capitol Hill Democrats spend as much time, effort, energy and attention looking to see how they can work for the agenda ratified by a landslide vote in November 2008 as they do looking over their shoulders fretting about what Cantor cackles, McConnell mumbles or Fox fabricates.
Obama's actually not doing too poorly in the polls and Hill Democrats seem to remain marginally ahead of Republicans in most generic polling. But this is not due to any of their collective pandering to the GOP and its core, i.e., the T'Partiers. It's not for throwing a more ambitious Stimulous Package, the Public Option and a comprehensive Energy Bill (to name but a few) under the proverbial bus. No, what popularity the Administration and Democrats enjoy are based on those times when they've stood up to the GOP, coupled with general Republican loathsomeness.
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Democratic National Convention, August 2008. Remember these days?
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