Election night - did anybody win?
Though I’ve been too busy to follow the election in detail, it doesn’t seem to have turned out well for the party masquerading as conservative Republicans (IMHO they are neither).
Amazingly (but paradoxically, not surprisingly) the Republicans are blaming everything bad that has happened in the last 6 years on liberal Democrats. This is a species of delusion that I cannot begin to fathom.
I am NOT happy with language that the Democrats have “taken” the house and/or senate. This is a continuation of the destructive idea that “us against them” means Americans against other Americans. Our enemies, since nearly everyone appears to have forgotten, are foreign. Domestic disagreements are natural and to be expected in a healthy democracy.
I would like to see the Republican party reclaim its old identity and purpose. It seems to be in some kind of trance and I cannot vote Republican until it wakes up.
One new experience for me: I voted for a Green candidate, Rich Whitney, for Illinois governor. He didn’t win, but I really liked him and there is always the chance that the votes cast for him will give the weiner winner something to think about.
I am in Chicago for an orientation session, and mentioned to one of the other attendees, that I would like a Republican house, a Democratic Senate, and a Green president. He said “But then the government could hardly get anything done at all!”
Exactly. Unless they work together and learn to compromise.
I like that idea as well. Having a government that had politicians acutally working together is a novel concept.
To me it was nice to see Democrats win, not because I hate Republicans, but because a good deal of the Republicans that were ousted were either morons or corrupt in some fashion.
Wonder how long it will take the press to turn and attack the democrat majority. At least Rumsfeld is gone. Yeah, I know I am suppose to be that blind Bush supporter, but I have always thought Rumsfeld was just a mini dictator in the hall of the Pentagon. In my humble opnion this minor shakeup is not all that big of a deal, until the next appointment to SCOUS comes up.