The "Republican Congress?"

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid

The Hill - President Obama and Democrats on Capitol Hill are increasingly referring to the Congress as “Republican” even though their party controls one-half of the unpopular institution. Obama and his allies have started to deploy the phrase “Republican Congress” in what some experts see as a clear attempt to gain a political advantage. “I’m the first one to acknowledge that the relations between myself and the Republican Congress have not been good over the last several months, but it’s not for lack of effort,” Obama told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos earlier this month. “It has to do with the fact that, you know, they’ve made a decision to follow what is a pretty extreme approach to governance,” he said. And other Democrats have used the term.

Senator Al Franken

“I’m sure the president would like it to be creating jobs more quickly. And if the members of the do-nothing Republican Congress would actually put a couple of oars in the water and help us, [we could] do these things like [Mississippi] Gov. [Haley] Barbour mentioned that make so much sense,” Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” earlier this month. Is it a harmless slip of the tongue, or a subtle messaging strategy? Political experts believe it’s the latter. Read full story here: News New Mexico

The "Republican Congress?"