Saturday, April 16, 2011

Assuming Republicans control Congress, would Obama or a Republican do less damage after winning the White House in 2012?

Before the 2008 election, I claimed that Obama would do less damage than McCain unless Democrats won a filibuster-proof Senate. Unfortunately, Democrats won a filibuster-proof Senate, and they did tremendous damage. Now I'm considering a similar question:

Assuming Republicans control Congress, would Obama or a Republican do less damage after winning the White House in 2012?

Republicans are pretty good at resisting Democrat programs, but Democrats tend to go along with Republican expansion of government. We've seen that Boehner and Ryan have no interest in cutting spending. What do you think?

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