Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Democrats Spank the Republicans
In a fairly normal bloodbath for the party in power in a 6th year of a presidency during a war, the Republicans lost the House and Senate to the other party. 6 Senate seats lost (just what the Democrats needed), at least 27 House seats lost (12 more than they needed). OUCH. There is no silver lining, because the Republicans are too hard headed to learn quickly. There has been some very bad Republican leadership in Congress in the past 4 years and those guys should be swept out (and my former pupil, Eric Cantor (R-VA), should be bumped up further in the minority (alas) leadership in the House). The only other advice I can offer is to be gracious not bitter, admit you got smoked and need to reform (especially on spending and growing the government), and then actually reform (especially on spending and growing the government).
My hat's off to the Democrats. The biggest risk they took was deciding that not having any concrete plan for the future, other than not being Republicans, was OK this election. Bold move that paid off. Locally, I have to praise good guy Bill Ritter, who ran a campaign without serious error--out in front early and never looked back.
OK, I'm going to go drink my breakfast and then go back to bed.
My hat's off to the Democrats. The biggest risk they took was deciding that not having any concrete plan for the future, other than not being Republicans, was OK this election. Bold move that paid off. Locally, I have to praise good guy Bill Ritter, who ran a campaign without serious error--out in front early and never looked back.
OK, I'm going to go drink my breakfast and then go back to bed.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 7:28 AM 
