The New Democratic Controlled Congress

Congressional democrats are riding high, and they should be. They now have control of both the house and senate. The question is, will they do anything useful with this new found power? I doubt it.

I say this because in my opinion, they don't understand (nor do they want to) how they achieved this grand success. They feel that they "kicked republican butt" because the voters are finally starting to get it. We're finally coming around to their way of thinking. We've finally pulled our heads out of the sand and starting to pay attention. They suddenly feel vindicated. They feel they've been right all along and we voters were just "slow" to grasp their wisdom. I think they're wrong about that. I believe that the democrats won majorities in both houses for two reasons:

1. The law of averages. It was bound to happen. They had failed for so long that, as expected, the voters "forgot" what they were like. We forgot why we had dumped them in the first place. In short, this is an expected cyclicle outcome. But the house dem's will never admit that! They would rather wallow in their "success" than to face any inconvenient facts.

2. The republicans who got dumped were dumped by republican voters, because they (republican voters) were tired of the liars, thieves and weaklings who were holding office (Curt Weldon of PA being a prime example of a republican being dumped by republicans). Republicans weren't dumped by democratic voters. In short, these scum bags deserved to get dumped, and republican voters met that need. This was not a shining triumph for democratic politicians.

Democratic politicians refused to believe anything was wrong when they lost control of the house and senate. They refused to believe that anything was wrong when they lost the white house, election after election. Now that they are back in control of congress, they naturally refuse to believe that it was due to anything other than their own superiority. It is this continuing arrogance that will stop them from making necessary changes to their platform and their party.

And of course, in the end, they'll fail again. But they'll refuse again to admit that anything is wrong . . . . . except on the part of the voting public.

Oh well!