During the closing days of the 2008 presidential campaign, John McCain and Sarah Palin were asking the voters, "do you really want a Democratic president and Democratic Congress?" The implication was, if that is the case, there would be no checks and balances and Congress would just be a rubber stamp of Obama's policies and programs. The Republican nominee was not doing too well with the voters on the real issues, so a new tactic was tried. It too failed.
The case has already been made that the Republican Congress did indeed rubber stamp Bush's policies during the six years they controlled Congress. Their leaders met every day and produced talking points for their members to repeat over and over again; there were no descent among their rank and file.
The same can not be said about the Democratic party. The fact is that the Democratic party does not issue talking points for their members to follow like robots. The Congressional Democrats will be with Obama on most of the critical issues facing our country but will put their stamp on many of the issues, and there will certainly be some descent within the party.
The country will do better under Democratic control because of Democratic independence and their vision of being progressive and the fact that Democrats won't be spending time on issues that divide us.
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