The strong rumors that Arlen Specter Republican of PA will be joining the Democrats added to the apparent win in Minnesota of humorist Al Franken sets the stage for a fillibuster proof Senate.
More importantly, it adds both power and moderation to the Democrats and forges a left center coalition that has a shot at setting policy in the nation for the foreseeable future.
Specter who already has crossed the aisle to provide critical votes for the new administration will be welcome in most circles of the Democratic party and will help it initiate long past due reforms blocked by the government is the enemy party.
While the right will squirm and deplore the fillibuster proof command that this development provides Obama, it is clearly the result of their own incompetence and negligence that has rained ruin and near ruin on so many in this country and the world.
Their dark little part of the world has gotten smaller, their big tent now a pup tent, of tired old and failed policies. They will rise again, but not as long as they continue to smear, obstruct and vilify. Those policies are what got them in their current predicament.
They may get lucky and get an Obama misstep at some point, but my bet is that this cool and collected leader will sail through his first term with mostly welcome victories setting up a decisive second term. After all comparisons to the prior four or eight years are going to be pretty easy to surpass. But more importantly, it's now possible for solid progress on a centrist left set of policies that may not fully excite the entire left of the Democrats but stand to pass with flying colors.
The old Rippon society Republicans have been homeless for a generation, lets welcome them and make policies that will rebuild America again.
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