State of the Nation?

I didn't have this bloggy thing 14 months ago, but Heidi will back me up on this prediction. I predicted that whichever candidate was elected, McCain or Obama, that president would witness the demise of his party. That prediction, sadly, seems to be on track. Obama, who came into office to the right of Richard Nixon, is moving still further right. Perhaps it's a wrongheaded attempt to make peace in a divided Washington, perhaps it's simply the myopic flailing of someone who wants, more than anything to be loved. Perhaps it's just plain forgetting who the hell got him where he is.

But one thing is plain, with all the speculation over the last year about whether Obama was playing chess while the opposition played checkers turned out to be wrong. Obama's playing Badminton, and the GOP is playing Rugby. And we are all getting the shit kicked out of us.