MyDD

Pundit David Gergen’s suggestion that Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) won Tuesday because Americans want President-elect Barack Obama to govern from the center is backwards logic, writes Todd Beeton. Republicans are the party with only 41 Senate seats, and they’re the ones that Americans want to cooperate with the Democratic majority, Beeton writes. Obama’s reported offer of the United States Trade Representative job to Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.) forces the House Democratic Caucus Vice Chairman to decide whether he wants to remain on a path to become House Speaker or follow Rep. Rahm Emanuel’s (D-Ill.) lead and join the administration, writes Jonathan Singer.