President Barack Obama got to the White House by promising "change you can believe in," and now, as the mid-term elections approach and a whole lot of folks are asking, "where is the change?", his answer should be that the Republicans voting, in a block, are preventing change.

The Republicans have enough seats in the Senate to block, to delay, to water down any change. As long as the Party of No is able to slow the Senate down to a crawl, there will be little, if any change. The answer is that America needs fewer Republican Senators, and House members too.

If these mid-terms focus on the obstructionist activities of the Party of No, and on the wild, crazy and radical ideas of the Tea Party candidates running on the Republican party line, then the President and the Democrats may have a chance to buck the normal trend in off year elections, when the party holding the White House loses seats. Bill Clinton bucked the trend in the '98 elections, when Democrats made the Republicans the issue, and gained House seats.