Wow!

Well, this is nice, isn't it? Taking back the House--and quite possibly the Senate, too!--from the forces of evil feels pretty darn good. Having them get rid of Santorum and (hopefully) Allen makes me proud of the majority of Pennsylvanians and Virginians once again. And while Connecticut and Tennessee fell short, one can only hope that the poisonous climate of American politics has truly peaked. Rectifying the excesses of Republican misrule, though, will take fortitude, and many years of law changing and overturning. While this process may look just as partisan, as the Democratic Party cleans the Augean stables of garbage and corruption left behind by 12 years of severely diseased governance, it will really represent a return to a semblance of the sanity of decades past. And while I might hope for a resumption of policy making that Americans forsook in 1980, I don't think that will happen anytime soon, unfortunately. Too many people out there have been deluded for far too long into thinking Reagan was a good guy with a vision for American values for us to reclaim the ground lost in the 1980s for a long time to come.
The spin from the media on yesterday's resounding Republican defeats is already deafening. On MSNBC and CNN, commentators were busily proclaiming that incoming Speaker Pelosi will "have to" reach across the aisle and work together with Republicans to get anything done--even though the House Democrats now have a larger majority than the Republicans ever did there--lest she and her colleagues "overreach" and be punished by the electorate like the Republicans just were. Uh huh. It simply doesn't register with these clowns that the message sent yesterday wasn't that we need bipartisanship, it's that the majority of the voters in the majority of districts and states now believe that the Republicans as a whole are incompetent, corrupt, or worse. We don't want bipartisanship, we want a different set of policies--a new direction for the country away from the garden path we've been led down by Smirky and his lockstep goons in Congress. Now all we have to hope for is that Speaker Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader (!) Reid, and the rest of the Democrats can remain resolute in ferreting out the secrets hidden away by unconstitutional executive orders and actions to expose the frauds and felonies perpetrated against the American public over the last 26 years. (Oh yes, Dutch and Poppy, this means you and your doings during the Iran-Contra days, not to mention what's been going on since 2000.)
Overreach? Hardly. The Democrats in power need to show the public that they, and only they, have the best interests of this country at heart and in mind, as they seek to reestablish the rule of law and equality of opportunity so long denied us. If any Republicans want to recant their evil ways and join in the purge of evil, fine; but we should force them to play on our turf, utilizing our policies, abiding by our agenda, and using the rules laid down by the Constitution. This isn't hardball politics. This is simply the way things should have been done all along. The Democrats in Congress, if they pursue justice along these lines, have an easy method by which to sell their actions to a public drowning in right-wing spin and media dishonesty, because the facts will bear out the hidden horrors of Republican malfeasance. The truth shall set us all free; we just need to work a little bit to find it. That work has just become possible, and we have the next two years to show the public what they have been missing for the last twelve. Go to it, Nancy and Harry.