Can you hear us now?
The PEOPLE have spoken to the politicians and their voices must be heard: we do not want to continue with the policies and practices that are currently impacting our lives. It's not a two-party divide, but it certainly is generational: the Democrats went after the youth vote, using the popular media tools to help them board the (twitter) bandwagon in 2008, but we old folks, the ones who pay for the gas, took away the credit cards last night. The young people moved on as soon as the 2008 election was over: short attention spans. We older folks live in long-term memoryville!
From now on, it's cash and carry: if we cannot afford it, we aren't going to do it. No, we aren't going to sit in the back seat, hanging on for dear life while the driver of the bus talks, texts, and twitters, instead of paying attention to the road ahead. The President told Republicans "not to do a lot of talkin'" while he cleaned up the mess, a boast he was not able to back, but a personal challenge he may now want to consider.
The ballots have been counted, Mr. President. Ouch.
Two stunning shockers: Jerry Brown is back as California's governor and Harry Reid keeps his senate seat. Wow. I remember Jerry Brown from the first time around ... . Of course, Brown says that now he's of an age to do things differently, but I'm not sure what he means by that: promise or threat? Harry Reid won't have Nancy Pelosi to prop him up in front of the cameras and tell him what to say, so Lord only knows the path of his on-going descent into senility.
Paraphrasing Mrs. Obama, who gushed that it was "the first time in my adult life" that she was proud of America after her husband's election in 2008, this is one of the many times in my adult life that I, too, am proud of all Americans who exercised the right to vote ineffective, arrogant, and offensive politicians out of office. Now, Mr. President, you may want to take your own advice and "not do a lot of talkin'" until you figure out what to do about all the changes coming your way in Washington.
The PEOPLE have spoken: lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way!
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The funny thing is that this won't change anything. The Repubs can try all they like to repeal stuff, but they didn't get the Senate and the President still has the power of veto.
What would have been nice is if they had actually taken the many, many, MANY offers to participate in any/all of the things the President wanted to do and actually HELPED. Then, health care (while an excellent idea) would hopefully not be as poorly done as it turned out to be (as only 1 example, there are plenty of others).
Now, you just have the reverse that will go on: the Repubs will try to do something, the Dems will filibuster it and vote it down and go to the media to say how evil they are for even presenting it. However, they have the ultimate goalie sitting behind them-- the presidential veto.
So, in the end, America sits in exactly the same place it did last week. Nothing changed, a lot of hot air was expended on both sides, and the American people will still get screwed.
(However, the chances of Obama getting re-elected just improved greatly. For the last 100 years or so, every president who lost Congress at mid-terms was re-elected to a second term. Every one. Interesting historical fact.)
What America really needs is a strong independent/third party to come out of nowhere with new ideas and a desire to ACTUALLY GET STUFF DONE to sweep into power somehow/some way. That would shake the apathy and antagonism between the two main parties and force them to deal with people with truly different ideas. The Repubs and Dems don't actually represent the vast majority of American's any more.
*comyo
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