While media and the right wing megaphone machine make this to be some great problem for Obama, what it is really doing is showing that bi-partisanship is just something the Republicans are incapable of, and the polls are reflecting it. The Vast Middle voter wants the two parties to quit arguing and work together. So far, Obama has made every attempt to do so, while the GOP on the other hand has proved to be obstructive. Judd Gregg was litterally hounded out of this job by the GOP right wing. The invective and down right hate that spewed forth on this man from right wing media and it's talk radio megaphone was nothing short of astounding.


The reason is pretty simple: moderate Republicans have been driven from the party, leaving only the shrill right wing radicals in Congress and their right wing screamers on the AM dial and on Fox News in place. While your average far right conservative seems overjoyed at this news, it is in fact, bad, bad news for an increasingly marginalized GOP. Gregg has also announced he will not run for re-election in 2010, probably because he knows the Shrill Right, which control the GOP primaries, will be after his scalp, as revenge for him even thinking of cooperating with the Democrats in forming a bipartisan leadership team for approaching the business community, something that would have been unthinkable for the Bush regime. How dare he.

This means another difficult GOP Senate seat to defend for the GOP. In 2010, New Hampshire voters will be reminded that if it were not for the conservatives, a Commerce Secretary from New Hampshire would have been there to benefit their economy, an economy that is now one of the most battered in the nation. The end result of this does not hurt the Democrats: another northeastern Republican seat, and one that is traditionally Republican at that, will be lost to the Democrats once again, because the Vast Middle voter will see a vote for the candidate presented to them by The Shrill Right as just adding more partisan rancor, not less to Washington, and the Democratic candidate will play that like a violin. The Democrats are living in a wonderful world. What the GOP wants to do, is driven to do, creates votes for them.