Concern in two months

I find myself once again concerned politically for the way the country is going. I know the mid-term elections are still two months away. However, right now the polling suggests a complete blood bath for the Democrats in the senate in the house. If we look at the senate, if the election were today, the Democrats would have 50 and the Republicans would have 50 senators. The reason for this is prominent Democrats like Barbara Boxer in California, Blance Lincoln in Arkansas, Harry Reid in Nevada, Russ Feingold in Wisconsin are losing to their opponents. In Obama's seat in Illinois, Roland Burris will not seek re-election and his replacement, Alex Gianalous is losing to Mark Kirk. Plus, there are retiring senators in states like Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Colorado. In other open races, like Florida, the Democrat Kendrick Meeks is only getting 19% support. A lot of the "experts" compare this year to the mid-term elections two years after Clinton got elected in 1994. I respectfully disagree. That year the Republicans were led by strong leadership (Newt Gingrich among others) and had a clear plan on how they were going to "correct" America through their Contract for America. To give the GOP credit, they have been brilliant as usual in their campaigning. Instead of doing anything, they have done everything in their power to ensure that no bill or legislation gets passed. They have blocked, literally, eight out of every nine judges Obama has tried to appoint to various courts. They have become the party of no and it is working. With the economy in the toilet still, the Republicans have offered no plans to fix the economy. Instead they simply are telling America, "What we are doing now is not working, let's try something else." Unfortunately, Americans forget that going back to Bush style economics is what got us in this mess in the first place! It is quite clear that unless the economy makes a drastic turn-around, the Dems are in big trouble. The economy + the Afghanistan war death tolls rising + an unpopular stimulus + an unpopular health care plan = success for the Republicans.