A Time For War

A Time For War

First off, I must admit, I was wrong. I was wrong in my national predictions. With all the polls in the competitive races close, within the margin of error and most within 2-3 points, I wrongly assumed our superior GOTV operation would make up the deficit like it had before. But our voters just did not turn out. And I am very pissed about that. Some of them are emo-progressives who feel it is their right to punish the party by not voting whenever they feel like the party has not been pure enough. Others of them just cannot be bothered unless the only politician that they know of, i.e. the national leader, i.e. the President, is on the ballot. To all of them I say, fuck you. I am almost tempted to argue that the Democrats in Washington should immediately repeal the entire social safety net, all regulations, everything that they take for granted, FDA, EPA, etc. etc. etc. and then let them all suffer horribly, just to prove to them that these elections matter, and that you actually are voting for policies and not people. Then I pull myself back from that. Because I know it is what the GOP wants. Not out of any respect or concern for my lazy and/or purist colleagues. We lost last night for a very simple reason....
About Last Night…

About Last Night…

I haven't blogged about the 2014 election... until now.  Am I disappointed Republicans now control the House and the Senate.  Yes.  Am I devastated?  No.  And here's why. Since 2010 the Republican battle cry has been that the House can't get its crazy past the D controlled Senate.  This worked for them - it was like a constant campaign commercial.  It worked for the so-called "sane" Republicans as well.  Vote to repeal the ACA for the gazillionth time?  Sure.  Why not.  The D controlled Senate would block it and the Rs would get to keep their Conservative street cred while doing nothing.  It's why there were so many votes taken to repeal the ACA - every Republican wanted a chance (or two, or forty) to go on the record with that meaningless vote. But now that vote isn't meaningless, and I'm seeing problems on the horizon.