The Democratic Congress has already shown itself to be an utter failure in creating gridlock and stopping the worst aspects of the Bush Administration: Iraq, FISA, etc. I don’t see how they’d show more spine to a President McCain.

A Democratic House and Democratic Senate would be very supportive of both a President Clinton and President Obama, but I could see how an active minority of Republican Senators could provide balance.

I’m voting Libertarian as well, as is Nick Bradley apparently. But I think his point (that, in some sense, libertarians have less to fear from Obama than the other remaining candidates) is worth considering.

I’m not sure what Doug is going to do, but if the choice is McCain vs. Obama (or McCain vs. Hillary), I’m voting for the Libertarian.

That doesn’t mean that there’s no value in discussing whether McCain or Obama is worse for the country (I disagree with the title of the post because I’d rather portray the negative, “Who’s worse” than the positive, “Who’s better”, with these statist political whores).

Point being, I wouldn’t want either of them. Obama’s a statist who’ll have a friendly Congress and McCain’s a statist who seems to want to expand the war in Iraq. Neither of them are candidates libertarians should consider voting for.

The other side of this is that even McCain in office can’t be considered actual gridlock. How often has McCain ended up siding with Democrats on issues and gotten rewarded in the media for being a maverick? With Obama, at least Republicans might get their act together and get back to conservatism, but that can’t happen if McCain undercuts them at every turn.

The unfortunate fact seems to be that we will get both a Democratic Congress and a Democratic President for at least 2 years.

And, this time, I’m not counting on another “Contract with America” to change things come 2010.

Given that we’re very likely to have a Democrat Congress, I’d rather have gridlock with McCain. With a Republican Congress, I might actually prefer a Democrat in the White House, as that gives our Congress someone to fight against, and thus we won’t have the profligate spending that we’ve had over the last 7 years.