Christian Science Monitor: Why Republican sweep might be less impressive than it seems

[LiberalElite]

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/2014/1109/Why-Republican-midterm-sweep-might-be-less-impressive-than-it-seems

"The overwhelming feeling Tuesday night was that everything was changing.

An election that looked like it might come down to the last vote in many states instead became a blowout. Republicans regained control of the Senate, emphatically, and an embattled president found the political walls closing in around him.

So, in the aftermath, questions have naturally turned to, "How might Washington change?" Will President Obama and the Republican Senate find ground for compromise? Would Mr. Obama's proposed executive action on immigration "poison the well" of potential bipartisanship?"

[gordianot]

1. I remember the old argument about Democratic Congress and Republican Presidents.

That would somehow balance politics, then the pundit would go into why this is much better than a Parliamentary system we have checks and balances in our Federal system. That is as much bullshit as the one America post partisan line. The Supreme Court poisoned the well forever with money and corporate personhood.

[LiberalElite]

2. For many years

I've wished we could have a parliamentary system.

[gordianot]

3. I have thought about that we could have become several nations.

.... that are possibly hostile to one another. I really do not have a good answer.

[Stuart G]

4. An important quote from that article:

"Yet all these questions might miss the overarching point of Tuesday's election, which might not mean what it appeared to mean. On the surface, it looked like a Republican victory. In truth, it was a victory for the status quo in Washington. It was further evidence that the Unites States has become Seesaw Nation – tilting Democratic in presidential elections, Republican in midterm elections."

Perhaps that is the message, we will see....