There is now a 100% Republicrat majority in both houses of Congress. So, in an amateurish and ultimately futile attempt at punditry, here's my prediction of what will happen in the next two years.
- The first to remember is that nothing will change. Extremist leadership of one color have been replaced by extremist leadership of another color. It's like replacing corn-based vomit with green bean-based vomit.
- There will be no new legislative initiatives. The newly elected Republicrats weren't running on a policy agenda. They were merely telling the electorate to vote against the incumbent Repbulicrats. So no new ideas have been proposed, which is why nothing will change.
- I totally agree with Gnade, who explained on Contratimes why we will still be in Iraq two years from now. Despite the crowing on one side of the aisle about how we never should have started a war in Iraq and we shouldn’t be there now, they want and need the war as a political fulcrum issue.
- The price of oil will continue to go up. Probably by this time two years from now, you'll have to pay close to $4 for a gallon of gas.
- The Royals will still be losing close to 100 games per season.
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"Despite the crowing on one side of the aisle about how we never should have started a war in Iraq and we shouldn’t be there now, they want and need the war as a political fulcrum issue."
ReplyDeleteYou may be right. But I hope you aren't.
I think it depends on how the dems handle the gift we voters have laid in their laps (they didn't really EARN it).
If they say to themselves "The reason the Republicans held power for so long was because Karl Rove was right! You have to divide the electorate! Drive people apart! Make them choose sides!", then we will still be in Iraq come 2008.
But I hope they take another path. I hope they try to bring people together, find ways to compromise, reach bipartisan agreements for the good of the country instead of just holding onto power at all costs.
That was the Clinton Way. Find a path that everyone can agree to. Don't shove your point of view down someone elses throat.
OK. Bad example.
But the point is, I'd like to see us all come together and be Americans, instead of Democrats and Republicans.
Remember when Clinton nominated William Cohen, a Republican Senator to be Secretary of Defense?
I want to see more of that "reach across the fence" mentality.
The "other side" isn't wrong or evil. They just see things differently. There's nothing wrong with that. It can be very useful.
What a fucking mess.
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