Heath Shuler (D-NC) to challenge Nancy Pelosi

[DrScholl]

Most of the Democrats that lost were the ones who voted against health care reform.

I found that to be very telling. For many, I don't think it matters if they voted yes or no on reform, they were still going to be voted out regardless because of the economy.

[DrScholl]

No one cares who the minority leader is, they probably won't even know who it is when 2012 rolls around, you don't build election strategy off the minority leader. The GOP really should more concerned with their own leadership in the House, which doesn't seem all that great.

[DrScholl]

Investigations get public attention and Issa seems to have big plans. There are even threats from other Republicans to shut down the government. These sort of stunts get big media coverage and the people do not care for them. Their main objective is to make Obama a one-term President. That kind of destructive ambition is far more troubling than Nancy Pelosi as Minority Leader.

[DrScholl]

I personally don't give a damn if Olberman or Brian Williams gets all gitty when investigations occur. Its there job to investigate. 

If there is a gov't shutdown it is a means not the end the media is portraying it as. Shutting the gov't down is not the goal. If it occurs, it will be the result of an impasse between Obama and the Republicans. In which case each is equally as at fault for it. And Republicans have a far greater justification for pushing for such drastic cuts and they don't have Gingrich telling Reporters "its because Clinton put us at the back of the jet going over to Israel".

Republicans were not elected to cower in fear of Katie Couric (Bad example, is she even going to be around by then? ).

Keep in mind, "working on the economy" is so generic as to be meaningless. Both sides have their own economists, their own policies, and their own approaches and both will claim to be working on the economy and both will label the other as obstructionists in the way of "fixing" the economy.

Since px75 asked a hypoethical question about where the investigations would go, I will do the same about the economy. 

How do we know the GOP won't win the debate in the eyes of the public and thus Obama end up being viewed as the Obstructionist? Then Obama is in the way of fixing the economy. Interesting prospect.

My point was, any investigations will be in the news, it's not something that will fly under the radar. The whole need for investigation just seems more about politics than transparency, in my opinion. Strict partisans like that sort of thing, the mainstream doesn't.