Find the Silver Lining…
in Tuesday’s election results. Let’s get a big long list. Maybe we’ll feel a little better. I’ll start:
1. Jack Markell won’t be Secretary of Education.
2. There will be no Special Election for Tim Kaine’s Senate seat.
3. TPP is likely dead.
4. Obnoxious blowhard and friend of Bill and Hill’s Fast Eddie Rendell will likely be off TV for awhile. Except for Eagles’ post-games, a sop from Comcast to an ethically-challenged fixer if there ever was one.
5. Goldman Sachs likely shut out of Trump ‘brain trust’.
C’mon folks, climb out of your collective funks and add to the list.
6. We’ll do well with Coons and Carper in the Senate because both will do their bipartisan cozying up to The Donald.
7. The feds won’t mess up public education because Trump will have no education policy.
8. A Democrat will be elected four years from now … because hindsight is 20-20.
9. The Clintons are over.
We knew the Democratic Party could not long continue serving two masters. It now has the chance to rebuild as a party of the people. Remember, in four years all those Trump Democrats are going to realize that down that path lies poverty. Of course, there’s always the possibility that the Republicans will pursue a healthy Keynesian stimulus now that they can take full credit for the recovery.
You’re right about the collective funk. In the words of Bluto Blutarsky, “Where’s the spirit? Where’s the guts, huh? This could be the greatest night of our lives, but you’re gonna let it be the worst.”
Face it, there was no successor to Hillary Clinton on the horizon. For better and worse, the Clintons have dominated the party for 25 years, which is why Trump was able to pin “30 years” of Washington gridlock on her. The future starts now.
10. H-1B visas probably won’t be expanded.
11. We might get a massive infrastructure investment in this country? (ignoring the short-term fiscal implications of it)
12. Maybe Nancy Pelosi will just finally retire and follow Harry Reid back west.
13. The rest of the world can finally isolate us as the pariah state we are.
Re 11. Not having to listen to deficit hawks and debt scolds for 4-8 years is a plus.
14. Ms. Rochester goes to Washington.
Re #6; Some entertainment in Coons having to live down the “short fingered vulgarian” comment
Re #4; Philadelphia can look at Detroit and say, “there but for the grace of Ed Rendell go I”
15. Republicans will own every single bit of the coming clusterfuck, except for all the stuff that Coons and Carper going along with, ….which will be most of it.
Nevermind.
16. Trump is already 70 and probably won’t run for a second term. Why spend more money and risk losing? If he’s one and done, and can say he’s always been a “winner,” and his ego is the most important thing to him.
17. In that vain, nuclear war would likely result in him being killed, and he views himself as way too important for that so he’ll likely avoid it.
Perhaps, just perhaps, the age of the Corporate Democrat is coming to a close. Perhaps we’ll even see real Dems in the future. Barring that To The Barricades!
And now that that the black guy is gone, congress will be able to find the funds to restore America;s infrastructure
18. Should be able to sweep into state houses in 2018.
19. People will realize how important a social safety net is once it is gone?
but in all seriousness, we have major major problem party wide. My girlfriend was asking me, so who are the rising stars that can help bring the party back to prominence? I don’t really know any other maybe Cory Booker. But atleast Obama will be around, if he can stomach watching his 8 yrs of hard work be undone in about 3 months.
DStorm,
I think a lot of people are looking forward to seeing what Kamala Harris can do between now and 2020.
Christian conservatives are exposed for the frauds they really are… You can’t claim moral superiority when you support the anathema to family values.
What if he goes rouge and starts promoting populist programs that are liberal in nature. Will the alt right completely self destruct? I see him being spiteful towards all the republicans that did not support him.
Liz Warren 2020. Unless of course the DNC and it’s super dedicates pick yet another corporate Demin which case I’m voting Green no matter what. Wish now I had voted for Stein instead of being shamed out of it
He did say he’d replace Obamacare with “something terrific.” I think Medicare for everyone would be pretty terrific.
@stephanie: Kamala Harris is so far down the pecking order — virtually nobody outside of California has ever heard of her — that you sort of prove DStorm’s point.
I realize Dorian Gray is kidding, but to Gigi and other who think Trump is going to back into some liberal policies on (__insert issue here__), I say stop dreaming.
He is a dolt who will be surrounded by the worst conservatives this system has ever produced. Nothing good is going to accidentally happen.
Hey, has anybody heard if there’s going to be another anti-Trump rally in Philly tonight? Marching would feel good right about now.
I said things along this line to friends more than a year ago, then let Trump convince me that I’m wrong, but now I’ll come back to it: not only does Trump not adhere to traditional GOP dogma, but he doesn’t adhere to any dogma.
I wouldn’t necessarily call him unprincipled but there is very little depth to his convictions. (I just had to use that word.)
Admittedly he’s a sexist, a racist, a narcissist and all the other things we don’t want our children to grow up to be, but his profound lack of conviction means that he can be moved (Republicans would call that flip-flopping). Sure, he looks, acts and sounds like a nut job, but he’s not a Ted Cruz right-wing GOP ideologue nut job. Considering Trump’s business instincts, I’d say that he will take a good deal whenever he sees it, regardless of who his partners might be.
Yes, he’ll be unpredictable (and that scares me on the foreign policy/defense side) but I’m going to hold out at least a smidgen of hope that every turn he takes won’t be hard right.
@MW: To build on that, one thing Trump has shown is that he insists on being loved. I hold out hope that, since he’s not an ideologue, he’ll be more likely to react to public pressure from the left than a normal Republican would be.
I suspect he might have more disagreements with Congressional Republicans than we think, and that he’ll win them because he has scared them into submission.
mediawatch, your point would have merit, except for the fact that he gets his information from Fox News and he is now and will continue to be surrounded by hard right zealots.
Oh Jason, I don’t actually think he will do anything to further the progressive agenda… It was just a wish.
Warren is the only clear voice right now talking to working people….she’s the one!
and no baggage of horny Bill, emails or the Foundation. and she won’t dance around all the issues like TPP, crime issues, etc.
You didn’t follow Warren’s run for senate, did you, Chris?
Sound familiar?
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Democrats will now undergo a period of creative destruction. I didn’t want it to happen this way and I really don’t know what’s on the other side. But as much as I voted Democrat, I also hated most of those sons-of-bitches. If Democrats can emerge powered not by Sanders and Warren but by their youthful supporters , the party may have a chance at renewal.