Obama should announce immediately that he will not be a candidate for reelection in 2012.

Democratic pollsters Doug Schoen and Pat Caddell argue in The Washington Post that if Obama makes himself a one-term president he will be able to make unpopular choices for the national good, and get Republicans to go along by depriving them of their “highest priority” — defeating him.

What?

(via theweekmagazine)

Why wait? The only possible interpretation on the midterm elections is that Obama and Biden need to go down to the Rose Garden and abdicate to Boehner as soon as he’s sworn in as Speaker. What other sensible course of action could any serious person derive from recent events?