Good morning.
The President is flying back from Prague today. He's in the air as I write this. Now, we think he's coming back to the U.S. today. We'll know for sure this afternoon.
Congress comes back to DC on Monday after the two week recess. Everyone on the Hill is thinking about the 2010 elections. And, I just saw this tweet from Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com:
fivethirtyeight: It's time to acknowledge that the Democrats COULD lose 60 or 70 House seats. Not super likely, but eminently possible.
Yikes.
Nate hasn't done a post on this yet. When he does, I'll link to it. Here's Nate's post on a
"possible 50+ seat loss for Democrats." But, there's been a lot of talk about the possibility of Democrats losing the House in November. That's one reason why you'll see a scramble to get progressive legislation passed in wha't left of this year. It's one of the reasons we've been so aggressive about getting the President and other allies to push harder on the repeal of DADT and passing ENDA. Democrats need to motivate their base.
Polls have shown that our base isn't as motivated as the GOP base. That hasn't been a concern for the White House, but it should be. It really should be.
Let's get it started...
