You can hear a pin drop during the McCain speech....

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Even though he certainly wont be to blame for all that goes wrong, with a Democratic congress he wont have much leeway.

I think he is going to lay down the law fairly early to
those Democrats, while he still has the Democratic
mandate. Some of the democrats further left that
just like to make trouble are going to see some discipline
interjected while it still works. Imo Obama very clearly
understands the mess we are in.