Brit Hume: Obama "Over-Interpreted His Mandate"
GREGG JARRETT: In May the president said he had a great chance at taking back the House. How would you handicap that?
BRIT HUME: Well, I think what’s happened here is that the president won a convincing victory, one in which, I think, a lot of people thought that race was closer than it turned out to be at the very end, he feels like he won some huge landslide. And he over-interpreted his mandate. He did the same thing after the 2008 victory. Which was a big win, I think aided enormously from the economic meltdown that occurred in the fall, right before the election. Which I think swamped the Republicans’ chances. The president always sees things as a big opportunity for him. So he rams through this healthcare bill, and after passing that stimulus he neglected the economy to some extent. Got killed in the 2010 midterms. So 2012 rolls around, he wins election. But so do all those Republicans in the House. The president thinks he’s got a huge mandate and everybody better go along with him or he’ll take back the House. The politics in the House just aren’t the same. He doesn’t seem to get that. Maybe he’s getting it now. That’s the problem and I think the chances of Republicans losing the House are pretty remote. Though, Republicans have screwed up before, all other things being equal it’s very unlikely that the Democrats will regain control of the House.
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