Following the defection of two African-American Congressmen from the Democrats to the Republican Party down in Georgia, Obama's own forced accommodation of the GOP on the Bush tax rates, the catastrophic defeat of the 'Porkulus' Omnibus bill, and the decisive repudiation of the DREAM Act immigration amnesty bill in the Senate, the President has declared his intention to cross the aisle in the hopes of getting something done in the last years of his troubled first term...
'It has become increasingly self-evident that only an Administration working in concert
with an effective, uncorrupted Congressional leadership that pays close attention to the will
of the American people has any hope of meaningful and lasting achievement on behalf of
this great nation. To that end I am renouncing my affiliation with the Democratic —
Hey, wait a minute! This isn't my script! I never approved this! Who wrote this?
WHO KEEPS DOING THIS TO ME?!"