So the Democrats made a fantastically idiotic mistake in thinking that a vote against the big-government Republican agenda was a vote for their statist power grabs. Nuh-uh.
Well, we'll see what the Republicans do with it now. See, back in 06 and especially 08, the Republicans lost a bunch of moderates. That makes sense. The hard-liners should have more party support. But I'd say the same thing just happened to the Democrats; let's see how many Dems who voted against Obamacare still have their jobs when the smoke clears.
What I'm saying is that compromises will be few and far between over the next two years. And this is a good thing; anything that jams up the gears of government and prevents it from expanding further and encroaching on our liberties is a good thing.
But will this be a wake-up call to the Washington elite?
I'm reminded of an old Calvin & Hobbes comic. They're building snowmen, and the idea is that they'll have two snowmen shaking hands. Calvin (probably; it might have been Hobbes, but this was a long time ago and I don't quite remember) makes his snowman's arm too short. Rather than extend the arm a little more, he tells Hobbes to move his snowman a little closer. Hobbes declines. Violence ensues.
Well, the Democrats are Calvin. They always want to move the snowmen (the political baseline, the "moderate" reading) closer to them, further to the left. And, somewhat disgustingly, the last Republican congress didn't really say no. Oh, gay rights this and abortion that and taxes the other thing, the size of the federal government increased under Bush. What's a Republican? It's someone who runs as a conservative/libertarian, but governs as a Democrat-lite.
And that needs to stop.
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