All due respect to the great pie fighters that have come before me, but there is a much more productive spleen-venting target than the President. So he's a maddeningly conciliatory mediator-in-chief, always looking to find common ground between sides. Rather than hypothesize about a doomed-to-fail-before-it-starts primary challenge or talk about "holding his feet to the fire", let's solve for Y. Let's take back the House.
Given a liberalism scale of 1-100, the House right now is like a six. The Senate, as always, is like a forty. Is it really any wonder the legislation we've seen pass hovers around the fifteen mark? With the House the way it is, nothing remotely progressive is going to get a sniff. Forget that. Nothing remotely moderate is going to get a sniff. You could have Greg Pallast in the White House right now and still get stuck with a steady stream of satan sandwiches and stalled proclamations renaming Post Offices after anyone besides Ronald Reagan.
The USA Today poll released today sees clear signs the nation is ready to kick the GOP out of power, the headline bellowing about yet another "wave" election on the horizon. Let's ride it. Let's take that six and make it a sixty.
The following states have at least one Republican Representative in their delegation:
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maryland
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
If you live in Connecticut, Delaware, Maine or Vermont, give New Hampshire a hand. Hawaii gets a pass. But that's it. Everyone else has actual work to do.
It's not magic, folks. It's just math. Take back the House, and you will have successfully moved President Obama to the left.