If the polls are correct and Democrats lose ‘control’ of
both the Senate and the House of Representatives they have only their
own fecklessness to blame. The eternal refrain that the Democrat Party
must ‘move back to the political center’ now places Barack Obama several
miles to the right of conservative Republican Richard Nixon in every
conceivable dimension of governance. As Mr. Obama’s first Chief of Staff
Rahm Emanuel put it when Democrats regained the House and Senate in
2006, ‘now we (Democrats) can get corporate campaign contributions
again.’ As the current Mayor of Chicago Mr. Emanuel finds himself
promoting the same neo-liberal interests at the local level that he
helped promote nationally in the Obama administration.
-- Rob Urie, "Neo-Liberals be Damned, Let the Democrats Rot" (CounterPunch).