Yeah I can see that, and last night, most places decided
that locally speaking a GOPer was just what they needed to keep down taxes and
stimulate or create employment in their state or region. Now that’s interesting. Why not the democrats? Because, in most cases, having total control
of the nation for a year, democrats have demonstrated that they suck at keeping
taxes low and creating jobs.
Was last night a referendum on Obama? Probably not since everybody claims to still
like the man on a personal basis. As
things stand now he is almost certainly going to get elected to a second term
of office if, that is, he alters a few bad habits.
But democrats?
Independents turned their backs on democrats last night and independents
swing elections one way or the other. It
doesn’t make sense though when the media insists upon pushing that now ancient
poll claiming that only twenty percent of the population will even admit to
being a republican. Hmmm . . . perhaps
there was something – you know – WRONG with the wording of that poll. Why would independents trust republicans [of
the dead and buried party never to be resurrected] over democrats? Results count.
Here we are neck deep in an unemployment nightmare and
people are scared to death about the economy and what – aside from setting
aside money for cherished boondoggles and tossing more money down rat holes –
are democratic lawmakers and Obama officials doing about it? They are ignoring it, claiming bogus
victories that everybody knows to be nonsensical in the face of THEIR economic
realities and SPENDING ALL THEIR TIME ON HEALTH CARE.
People are asking [particularly those independents who make
the difference at the voting booth] what happened to the economy as the issue
that pushed Obama over the top when campaigning in 2008 against John McCain? People EXPECTED Obama and the triumphant Democratic
Party leadership to do something about the economy than just talk about it and
burn money in big gaudy piles. Instead,
Obama and the democratic legislators have been monomaniacally focused on Health
Care, which was NOT why they were put into office by all those independent
voters.
Independents expected RESULTS, hard, cold, calculated, and
effective results from Obama when they listened to all those campaign speeches
about Hope and Change and they have received nothing, nada, zilch, zero as a
return on their political investment.
But this is not about Obama.
He still gives pretty – if essentially meaningless – speeches over which
the media predictably and dramatically swoons over in rapture and he plays
basketball and golfs with his all his tight male buddies and he looks
fashionably skinny . . . and apparently that’s an important consideration.
No, it’s about the Democratic Party leadership themselves
and their utter inability to be effective now that they collectively control the
nation and it’s about their inability to explain to Mr. Obama that pretty
speeches alone do not really amount to leadership. None of this, however, is Obama’s fault. Oh good heavens no!
Last night was a political referendum on the Democratic
Party leadership and it was one that now has the experienced and intelligent
among them, up for re-election in 2010, seriously worried. As well it should. It should also be worrying Obama – and it
will be regardless of what sort of spin the White House puts on last night’s
election results – and in that respect it SHOULD also cause the democratic
leadership in congress and the White House inhabitant to change their EVIL and
WICKED ways . . . but it probably won’t.
That’s the neat thing about all of this. Last night a goodly number of democratic
legislators heard the political freight train horn in the distance and instead
of get the hell off the tracks they are quite likely to continue partying like
a bunch of drunk frat boys on those political tracks right up until the 2010
election day rolls around.
Idiot politicians. Are
we all having fun yet?
