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Edited on Thu Oct-21-10 01:41 AM by demwing
We may lose the House. In fact, we will likely lose the House.
But if we do, if the House does fall, what's the worst we can foresee?
Well, the Tea-baggies will rant and rave, and crow like a rooster. They'll hold endless impeachment hearings, get nothing done, and the economy will stagger along for another two years.
But barring economic collapse, a rightwing mini resurgence is not really a bad thing. All the recent polls tell us that the Dems will keep control of the Senate - and nothing that gets started in the House will ever get past the Senate. Never fear! The Senate is our fire wall, and this fire wall is all we need, should all political shit hit every American fan.
"Demwing, you're high" I hear you scoff.
HA. High like a kite, but never you mind that, because I'm running on all 4 cylinders. Follow me here - if, after the new House completes its 2 year term, the economy has not been dealt with, if the focus has been on birther fantasies of Kenyan boogey-man nightmares, and the right spends its energy scaring the hell out of the Senior Citizenry with failed attempts to end Medicare and Social Security, and further alienates the Latino vote with its tar and feather approach to immigration issues, then at the end of two years, we'll witness an amazing site.
President Obama will be up for re-election. Dem enthusiasm will be up (as it always is in a Presidential election cycle) and amplified by the two years of Insanity that the Tea Party brought to our doors.
As a country, we may have a short attention span. We may have forgotten that the Republicans put us in the mess we're in. But two years from now, we will not have forgotten. The backlash against the right will be furious. Did you think our 60 seats in the Senate were impressive? Let’s look two years down the road, and shoot for a 75 seat majority. We CAN do that.
Let's look two years down the road and look at a 100 seat majority in the house. Easy as pie.
Let's look two years down the road, and realize that when we get there, and look BACK at the two years that just passed, we will be looking back at the last two years of the Republicans as a viable national party in America. It will be an historical moment. We can be creating that moment right now!
Of course, this could all fail to happen. What's the next worst case scenario?
The worst that could happen is that we ALL vote, vote early, and vote Blue. We could still retain control this year, aven though we'll not likely see huge super-majorities in 2012.
I think I can live with that...
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