Did America Win in Election 2010?

It's interesting to review the results of the 2010 elections. A 60 seat pickup in the House but the Senate remains in enemy hands (and yes, I use that word advisedly). My concern is the certain knowledge that most of my fellow Americans don't have a clue how our country governs itself -- apparently they couldn't even track the "Schoolhouse Rock" song "I'm just a bill" much less stay awake through a semester of civics class.

And there is the problem -- we were in a runaway big-rig going down a West Virginia mountainside headed for certain destruction and some of us stood on the brakes until they melted off the rotors -- the problem is, we also needed to turn the steering wheel on the rig and take it onto the runaway ramp to end up safe -- but we only did half the job. The house is the brakes but the Senate was the ramp -- we didn't do enough and so the rig is still set to careen down the highway but this time, there is no second chance to hit the brakes since they are alrady fried.

What am I talking about? Let me break it down for you. America rightly saw runaway socialism and said "whoa, stop already". But what does it mean to stop? Stop passing new stuff? Well, there IS enough to do that -- the House can see to it that nothing more heinous happens for the next two years -- of course after the inevitible lame-duck, nothing-to-lose, the heck-with-them session wherin cap-n-trade will be passed, taxes will be raised, and the like -- why not? Every pet project that would have prevented re-election is moot now -- they either won or lost, why let integrity get in the way?

So come January, we will still have Obamacare, probably have tax increases as the Bush cuts are allowed to expire, there still won't be a budget, deficits will still be in the 5 trillion dollar range, cap-and-trade will begin dragging down the economy and all the rest. "Just reverse it, defund it, whatever" people say. And there is the problem -- with just half the job done, you can't. The House can try to defund Obamacare, but the Senate won't go along with it. The choice will be to shut down the government altogether and the Dems will keep enough packed together for the rubes to blame "the party of no". Tossing Obama on his ear for being a non-citizen usurper is never going to happen in the next 2 years. Getting Holder's Department of Injustice off of Arizona's case isn't going to happen. Calling for investigations into massive Chicago-thug voter fraud is never going to happen -- you needed BOTH houses of Congress to have a shot. Even 49-49-2 with Biden as tiebreaker would help -- I believe Joe Lieberman is a man who would do the right thing, but if the margin is even 2 or 3, NOTHING HAPPENS.

You have no idea how many political sites filled with political junkies still repeat the ridiculous notion that "Bush spent us into oblivion" ignoring the fact that it was a Democratic congress that constitutionally had the only mechanism to spend. And this is the ones who supposedly "get it". Imagine the general populace's impressions?

How do a majority of states tilt 60 seats toward Republicans and yet some of those same states send their same Democratic Senator back for another round at the bar? It's the maps, stupid. The Bush/Kerry debacle all over again -- a few dozen massively socialist big-city counties outweighing the wisdom and life-style choice of the vast majority of America. How many illegals were allowed to vote in those big cities? What mischief did the 400-strong gaggle of lawyers accomplish in the waning days of this election cycle? How much influence did the SEIU Union Maintenance men who maintained the machines in Harry Reid's home district wield as they hacked the voting machines? Now, we'll never know. Because the dirty tricks brigade was successful. They preserved their 3 seats to thwart any effort at a real fix.

I defy any reasonable person to hear a legitimate "I get it" in the President's speech today. What he "gets" is that people are "frustrated" at a "slow economy" that he falsely attributes to his predecessor. He doesn't "get" that people don't like Socialism. The thought doesn't remotely cross his mind. Of course he is smarter. Of course he deserves the power he has. Of course the people are stupid -- that's just what we are to him -- a stupid annoyance who had a 5 year old temper tantrum and Papa O is still in charge -- all is right with the world.

This election tells me the sensible minority waited too long. Truly there is now proof that the mooching, weak-willed sheeple number over 51% and will inevitably vote themselves from the public larder. Abandon ship, cap'n, she's-a-sinkin'. Maybe if we had woken up before the latest influx of drug-addled gang-bangers. Maybe if we had woken up when GWB showed us there was such a thing as a spend-happy so-called conservative. Maybe, but now it's too late.

I'll give you a way to tell for sure -- I'm told by the talking heads that never before was there a historic shift where only one houses tipped. And always before, the Dow Jones rose by 15% following the shift because it's "always the economy, stupid." But watch over the next 2-3 months. If the down goes up 15%, I'm all wrong and I'm not understanding the power to slow down. But if I'm right -- if the truck is still barelling down the mountainside -- Wall Street will know we didn't do enough. The economy will continue to tank, unemployment will now skyrocket, and you'll begin to see the effect of all of this incorrect philosophy. One of Obama's heroes is FDR -- but a real reading of history shows conclusively that FDR never got it -- he was an economic ignoramus whose every action extended a minor blip into the worst economic disaster ever seen in America. The Big O is capable of every bit as much hubris as FDR and every bit as little insight. Just watch and see. The next few months will tell the tale.

There's your lamp-light for the day.