That may be happy news for conservative-types and fans of Glenn Beck, but it bodes ill for those of us who suffered mightily under George The Younger.
It wouldn't be so bad if this judgement was being rendered at the end of a full four years. By then, if a light couldn't be clearly seen at the end of the tunnel, you could safely say they'd got it wrong. But just 2 years? How impatient are we as a society?
Of course, even supporters must admit the Democrats haven't run the show as well as they should have and we hoped they would. And that realization has come at great cost to the Dems. Even if their disheartened fans won't vote for Republicans or Tea-Partiers, they may not vote for Dems either. In politics, apathy among your base is fatal.
And to add insult to injury, the press seems to have lost all sense of journalistic integrity in reporting the run-up to the midterms. They are making wild statements, like 'President Obama's policies are widely unpopular'. That's just not true.
Obama's policies may be unpopular and widely-so among Republicans, Tea-Partiers, and conservatives in general, but not among the great mass of the populace that voted Obama into office in 2008. That group is merely demoralized that more couldn't be done. That Obama was not able to get the Republicans to work cooperatively to solve our nation's problems. That bipartisanship didn't work (and was scrapped as a lost cause early on).
Right now, it looks as if the conservatives who stonewalled every effort by Obama at governing this nation have achieved their goal: to energize their followers and demoralize the Democrats'.
Let us hope that the reversal isn't too extreme, and that a relatively balanced Congress results. Perhaps with neither side having a 'super-majority' more compromise might be necessary, despite political enmity.
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Depressingly accurate.
My only consolation is that the Republicans will own their obstinacy. They will be in charge of their "no"s.
I fully expect the Teabaggers and creepy incumbent Republicans to embrace the Money and be shown for the Attention-Freaks (O'Donnell) and Hypocrites (Miller/Engle/Vitter) they are and will be. All the while they cutoff the middle class at the thighs as they blowout the deficit to serve their Corporate Owners.
shit.
I hope the outcome is less bleak than we fear, but if it isn't then your consolation may be the only one we'll get.
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