Last week I suggested that divided government would “make life worse for Obama”:https://themonkeycage.org/2010/10/why_divided_government_is_bad_.html and that fighting the GOP “wasn’t necessarily good”:https://themonkeycage.org/2010/10/does_divided_goverment_help_pr.html for Clinton. Now comes “this”:http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1110/Pulling_a_Clinton.html from John Harris, courtesy of Ben Smith:
bq. One Clinton veteran, former White House adviser Doug Sosnik, said Obama allies should disabuse themselves of the fantasy that the Tuesday results are a blessing in disguise: “The single greatest luxury you have in politics is the ability to control your own destiny.” Obama has now sacrificed some of that ability to Republicans.
