OK kids...

[mahnmut]

OK kids, here are the car keys. Would you like an adult with you in the car - Y/N?

I'm glad the GOP took control of the House. Now they'll really have to grow up and take some responsibility instead of being the party of No.

Alas, those eleeteests in the Senate will now block every noble incentive that comes from the good old party. Damn eleeteests...

Oh well, never mind. Reform can wait for 2 more years, when they elect Palin to finally take the country Back. What could possibly go wrong?

Btw is it just me, or changing the watch in the middle of a crisis looks like a harakiri? Any bets on when China will actually have a major giggle?

;-)

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[kinvore.livejournal.com]

Btw is it just me, or changing the watch in the middle of a crisis looks like a harakiri?
Sadly there's always a crisis. Plus whenever the GOP is in power this is an excuse they use, "we can't change leadership in a time of war" because there's always a war when they're in charge.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

And yet South Carolina's elected the first black Republican from the Deep South since Reconstruction. Pity Representative Scott's a teabagger.

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

And there are no black Senators any more.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

OTOH South Carolina has a female POC governor. Another Indian from Punjab on the Republican ticket. O.o

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

And no blacks.

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

Thare are crises and crises. There's the Bush crisis and then there's the Clinton "crisis".

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Eh, the Democrats still have control of the Senate. And the Republicans failed to get rid of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. Reid won by 5% and Pelosi by 65%. So yeah, the GOP "resurgence" is not what people will be claiming it was.

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Like I said,

Alas, those eleeteests in the Senate will now block every noble incentive that comes from the good old party. Damn eleeteests...

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Bah, I *want* to see the gridlock. It virtually guarantees the Democrats a win 2 years from now as the GOP will reach for things it can't get and won't see sense until it breaks its control of the House much more rapidly than the GOP did.

[ghoststrider.livejournal.com]

Nothing is really going to change; with the GOP refusing to tackle entitlement reform and military spending, there goes 60% of federal outlays off the table. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Thus, "changing the watch" really isn't going to change anything. Don't worry, the only harakiri going on is us wallowing up to our eyeballs in debt, and that's been going on for years now.

I think there are some minor pluses, though: libertarianism has gotten more dissemination in the public than it ever has before, and when the GOP fails to actually do shit this cycle, it will be kicked out in 2012 again, and set the stage for a REAL third party to enter. That's gotta be good for something.

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Or it'll set the stage for the pendulum swaying back to the left. Before it sways to the right in 2016. Etcetera etcetera etcetera.

[ghoststrider.livejournal.com]

It is possible that we'll enter a "Jacksonian moment" and have several elections where we just fire people left and right, continually switching. But I think voters will grow tired of that and the game will be up before long, so I do see an opening there for a new party (or at least for one of the current parties to completely reinvent itself.)

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

I admire your optimism. I really do.

[ghoststrider.livejournal.com]

Don't expect it to last. I'm afraid that this decade is when I'll became a real cynic.

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

And then I'll welcome you to da klub.

[prog-expat.livejournal.com]

Restrictive ballot access laws, election systems which favor two parties, a long history of third parties being used as whipping boys by the Big Two, which generates a negative public perception of third parties, and ineffective electioneering on the part of third parties (Ignore the fucking Presidency and focus on local and state-level offices already!) are all going to stave off the day a third party has any measurable success.

If anything, having one wave election after the other is just going to strengthen the death grip the duopoly has, especially if control keeps going back and forth like it has, since it gets more people emotionally evolved, which makes them more likely to pick a side and get invested.

[ghoststrider.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm going to remain cautiously optimistic that this will prompt reforms in that direction before the entire countries collapses in debt, but hey, you never know.

[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

congrats republicans to their one half of one third of the federal government.

[tniassaint.livejournal.com]

Hope I am not intruding...

Happily, they got only one of the sets of keys.

Too bad the other party is equally dense.

They did win back a lot of seats, but nowhere near enough to undo the damage they did to their party in the last administration. They still have this tea party mutiny to sort out - and they have a LOT of house cleaning to do - like that airhead in Delaware - oh,wait... part of the tea party mutiny - got it.

I DO HOPE that they can retract some of the blatant obstructionist statements they have made in the last year or two and - AS YOU SAID - "grow up and take some responsibility instead of being the party of No."

I hardly think that either side is all that noble. They are all a bunch of self serving power mongers - nothing more. It is the RARE member of Congress that can demonstrate otherwise.

Did you follow any of the Florida races? Have you read anything on Scott!? You have GOT to be kidding me!? I hope he does a better job for the state than he did for Columbia and Medicaid.

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Actually I did not get into much detail regarding any of the separate battles.

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

Sometimes the correct answer IS no :P

Dude I live in Calif where the Republicans say maybe, and we are in deep do-do, and it could easily get worse because of a proposition that passed making the Reps totally irrelevant on the budget.