Here I sit on the Monday before the mid-term elections wondering how to feel. Part of me is quaking in fear of the spectre of Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House--three heartbeats from the Presidency--and Harry Reid as Senate majority leader (egads, it is too horrible to contemplate).
Another part of me is saying "Have at it! Take the next two years to do as much damage as you can so sanity can prevail in 2008!"
Because let's face it kiddos, there are two things that can happen:
If they lose power, for sure they'll blame Bush, the war, AND the Democrats, but they still won't do anything constructive, so what does it matter?
Meanwhile, if the Dems. win, there will be a tug-of-war in their party over whether to impeach Bush or not. This will distract them long enough that they won't get much of their own agenda in front of the President, and whatever they do succeed in putting before him, he is likely to veto anyway, so who cares? Oh sure, they'll blame him and the GOP come '08, but if the GOP is smart, they won't publicly fight too much except over impeachment (where a fight is the only sane response, and what all GOP base voters would expect), but they'll still quietly vote against whatever the Dems want so come '08 they can cite that record of loyalty to the party when they're running.
So back to my original point, it's sort of a win-win (or lose-lose, depending upon how you look at it) either way. It is highly unlikely that the GOP will keep both houses, come blazing into office with a radical new successful way to extract us from Iraq with our image intact, to secure the borders and deal with the immigration mess, to stop the march towards human cloning in the form of embryonic stem cell research, and a way to save social security with private savings accounts. They've had 6 years to get that shit done, and they have FAILED.
Let's face it, things on the terror front have to get worse--way worse--before we'll get some leaders with the nads to step up and do what's right, before we realize as a nation (not just 49.9 or 51% or whatever the margin for error is today) that we are at WAR with RADICAL ISLAM. And until we do wake up, it's all just noise, posturing and nonsense we're hearing from cowards on both sides of the aisle.
I truly believe that a Dhimmicrap win tomorrow (or next month, after the recounts, challenges and lawsuits are over) will just mean that their chances of annointing that socialist BITCH Clinton as our new "Supreme People's Leader" are slim-to-none.
As happy as I would be about that, I will still feel empty somehow, still feel frustrated and let down by my own party, the party of Lincoln, the party that stubbornly refuses to do more than ONE thing right lately. It's great that they "get" the threat, relatively speaking, but it's not so great that they refuse to risk their own political hides doing what's really necessary to make this nation stronger.
I'll still vote for GOP candidates because, well, what the hell choice do I have--it's truly the lesser of two evils at this point. But if things don't go my way, I now have a way to look at it that will comfort me, the day AFTER tomorrow.
Posted by insomnomaniac at November 6, 2006 10:42 AM | TrackBack