The Real Election Results for 2009

The results from last week's elections are interesting.


I know, I know, it's been a week and everything that could be said has been said on the subject. Well, I'd like to put in my two cents anyway.

First, the Virginia Governor's election always goes with the out party.

Second, no one in New Jersey liked the Governor anyway. His party didn't matter. President Obama shouldn't have invested his time or energy there.

Third, the real story is the New York -23 election. A seat the Republicans have held for over 100 years. Not only did a Democrat win, but the fringe right wing ran the moderate Republican out of town.
By the right wing trying to impose their will on voters by stifling a moderate voice, they showed their true colors. They would rather have a "pure" candidate than one who can win. Okay guys, keep it up. You are sewing your own seeds of destruction.

I live in Oklahoma, where we have two U.S. Senators who are about as far out there as you can get. An embarrassment to more of us here then they know. We also have an undistinguished congressional delegation which has the Republicans towing the party line and the one Democrat so afraid to make any sort of reasonable move he votes with the Republicans more than I suspect he wants to.

This isn't happening just in Oklahoma. Across the country, these guys are in for a real treat. If they get reelected in 2010, which most probably will, they will become so marginalized they will be in real trouble in 2012. They may have bowed to the will of the right wing fringe to get elected, but will have to start explaining why they went along with this philosophy when the voters want to know why they opposed even basic healthcare reform (things like prohibition of pre-existing conditions) and saving the economy from destruction by the previous administration that let the Wall Street guys run wild.

Rest assured that this will come back to haunt them, after all the yelling and hand wringing dies down, people will actually think about what's going on. Unfortunately, the right wing fringe is playing a sophisticated game of race baiting disguised as anti-reform and anti-progress. I'll go there in a later entry.
People catch on eventually. They are getting tired of all the vitriolic junk coming out of the Republican corner. Democrats are far from perfect, but at least as a group, they are far more reasonable.

We all want to have the elected representatives of this nation work together to move the country ahead and make life better for all of the citizens of this country. This unbridled hatred of President Obama and the Democrats is wearing very thin with more and more people.

If you don't have the guts to say you're afraid of the special interests, then get lost and let reasonable folks take over your jobs. Rush, Sarah and the rest of that bunch would be funny if so many people didn't take them so seriously.

Let's move on to something that looks like a Democracy for all, rather than a collection of highly splintered factions who refuse to even talk to each other.