Well, now we live with it.

[lunadelcorvo]

It seems we have a Republican house, and are damn close to having a Republican Senate, or at least a Senate with no clear majority. This is no real surprise, although it is a bit of a disappointment. However unrealistic, I had rather hoped for a surge of 'not gonna let it happen' from the Left. (Rand Paul? Really!? You thought this was a good idea? SRSLY!?!)

So now what? If the GOP is as uncooperative as they have promised they will be, I suppose this will be a few years in which there will be a terrific noise and bluster, and little real action. There is of course, talk of impeachment, but I hope I am not optimistic to say I think that threat has no real weight behind it. Clearly, the White House will be able to get nothing done, which is to say that it will accomplish even less than it has so far, which isn't saying much.

All in all, I'd rather have a mid-term shift than a term-end sweep. At this point, I guess the best possible thing is to hope that the Tea Party Right make such collective asses of themselves that even the mouth-breathing, slack-jawed, knuckle-dragging electorate in this country will have no choice but to show them the door for a good long time.

I just wonder what this place will look like by the time people figure out they've been had?

Comments

[primitivepeople.livejournal.com]

It's all turkeys voting for Christmas. I can't believe how counter-intuitive it is for the average person to vote for Tea Party right-wingers. They've never done anyone any good, and it's precisely their policy direction that has got us all in this mess...

2012

[ahrensm.livejournal.com]

Our only hope is if the Rep party runs Sarah Palin in 2012 and I think they will..

[cyranothe2nd.livejournal.com]

I am so disappointed and so disenfranchised today. I just...what the fuck is wrong with the people of this country? Have we forgotten that the Bush years happened? Does Faux News really have so much power that it can erase history and re-insert fiction?

IDEK at this point. I mean, we were a dying empire before. Now...we're in the last throes, I think.