When Republicans gained control of the Senate in 2015, joining the large House Republican majority, it was assumed that the president would face an onslaught of legislation he would be forced to reject, setting up tough veto fights.
Barring a complete, surprising onslaught against PAN and PRI, AMLO would be forced to govern by decree or get the Democratic Revolution (PRD), a left of center big government party, Citizens Movement (MC) and Greens, which are in an alliance already with PRI, to see things his way.
Burrell retired there to brace himself for what he felt would be an onslaught of emotion and negativity.
If he did not fight against Mr. Bush's onslaught he feared that he would be crushed the way Bill Bradley was being clobbered by Al Gore.
But he never lost his anchorage in the material world, and never ceased to understand that a purely moral onslaught on capitalism and empire would be empty sermonising.
Last week, hours before the store opened to the public, employees were busily checking e-mail, arranging books and preparing for what they hoped would be an onslaught of curious passers-by.
She said there would be no "onslaught of judicial recusal motions," basing her view "on my experience as a state trial and appellate judge and my interaction as a judicial educator with judges from all 50 states".
They knew that as soon as the country's next president was announced, or even a few hours before, there would be an onslaught of requests from supporters looking to book rooms for January's inauguration.
We don't know whether Apple is also working with Amazon for Wednesday's launch, although given the recent moves by Amazon to shore up the Kindle in anticipation of Apple's technicolor onslaught seeing them on stage would be really surprising.
