Yeah...let's face it. It was pretty much like this. Right down to the vultures picking over the carcass for the past two days. It is hard to know which is worse. The dead donkey or the scavengers.
What was particularly irksome was that only 1/3 of America's registered voters bothered to show up at the polls, at all.
The abject apathy is more frightening than the prospect of the GOP controlling both House and Senate.
And the President still has the power of EO and Veto...so the chances of the ACA being completely dismantled are slim and none...ditto Medicare and Social Security. Being a lame duck I can't see him having a lot of compunction about using either, should this Congress attempt to touch any of the three.
Since the populous is a notoriously fickle lot...prepare for another earth-shattering shift by 2016.
Despite the GOP neener-neener fest of the past two days, this was a message as much to Congress (who holds a dismal 10% approval rating) as to the President. Although I have to admit I am completely stymie by Mitch McConnell's re-election. In an area where over 80,000 families live at or below poverty level...and the fact that K-NECT (...Kentucky's version of the ACA ) has been wildly popular and widely used...they voted to re-elect a guy that..........(wait for it)....................wants to dismantle the ACA.
Go figure.
I am happy to see that Crist didn't get Florida...despite the possible change in the marijuana laws. I have to think residents shook their had and said,
"Yeah...we would LOVE to twist one up when we get in from work...but it isn't worth having Charlie back!"
( The Second Coming of Crist?)
Charlie Crist...who was a Republican...that didn't get re-elected...so he changed to an Independent- who didn't get elected...and finally morphed into a Democrat that didn't get elected, either...I am sensing a pattern here, guy. Give it the hell up! They just don't want you.
This is the guy you dated who will morph into anything you want him to be if you will just STAY!!!!!!!!!!!!
( *sobbing*)
"Yes...a restraining order generally signifies the relationship is over. "
Just saying.
And what is up with Texas? Wendy Davis stood for everything women wanted in her area. Well, what they SAID they wanted. Until Election Day. Still shaking my head over that one, too.
So, the next two years are going to be interesting, anyway.
Feeling very Carlinesque.
Just sitting back watching the show.
Feeling Winter creeping in now...and may have another snow tonight. Sure feels like it.
Relaxing with a round loaf of home-made bread and a pot of bubbling Minestrone...
Life (despite the Election results) is Good!
