The wave grows and so does the likelihood of hijinks and shenanigans in the Lame Duck and in January. Am writing for the Beast on waiting for the Republican leadership: John Boehner is in dress rehearsal to become the Speaker of the House for the putative Republican Congress, and what the feverish partisans among us need to accept is that this chain-smoking, conflict-averse, glad-handing and peculiarly orange-tinged golfer is the pay-off for the last two years of Lilliputian turmoil. No matter how successful the Tea Party and Club for Growth vote on Election Day - sixty-seat swing! coup de main! - all the king's horses cannot do more come January and the 112th Congress than to wait on the modest brainpower of a sixty-one-year-old professional Ohio pol who, on his best day, is described by a wag as so out of touch with the American culture that he thinks of himself as cool, just like Dean Martin ...
So, my choices are Boehner or Pelosi...
Sorry, JB, but that's an easy one for me!
Give me the chain-smoking Dean Martin!
The wave is certainly building. Already of tsunami-like proportions, it is poised to sweep everything out to sea. Democrats - partially by chance, partially by their own effort - happen to be situated closest to the shore. Republicans are just behind. There is reason to believe that ultimately no one will be spared.
John Boehner’s taking over the reigns of congressional power will prove to be temporary. Politics as usual can no longer stand - particularly the practice of entitlement by seniority. Boehner will have to pull off a miracle in order to survive the public mood. There is no reason to believe that he (or any Republican) is up to the challenge.
This does not mean that voters will automatically jump back to supporting Democrats. This is where most pundits get it wrong. Let me be clear, the Democrat Party for all intents and purposes is finished. Bill Clinton finished it off with the Lewinski scandal. By forcing it to defend the indefensible, it would become an empty shell, retaining only its name. That’s how the socialists were able to fill the vacuum and take it over.
Republicans are blamed for letting it happen. Republicans were expected at the very least to keep watch. They failed to do even that much. They slept at their posts, allowing the enemy to breach the defensive line and create major havoc from within. Republicans are seen as being ineffectual at best, or somewhat corrupt at worst.
Voters will give them a very short leash should they come to power as now seems likely.
The ineptness of The Republican Party will be exposed in all its amazing colors of Joseph’s Technicolor dream coat. The state-sponsored press will make sure that the news of Republican ineptness is well disseminated.
All this amounts to is that we could be seeing the birth of a wildly successful third Party in the next election cycle. All it would need is for a leader to emerge - one, capable of speaking the language of the American people.
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John Boehner speaks my language. So does Eric Cantor. So does Mitch McConnell. Am I going to be the only person on this blog who would give a year off the end of his life to see both houses of Congress go Republican this November? Who could have dreamed a year ago that we'd be here? Come on, people. Wake up! Get behind these Republicans. They have done a good job of keeping Obama, Reid and Pelosi from doing even more damage. Can you imagine where we'd be right now if not for the Republicans standing firm in the ObamaCare debate? Two words: SINGLE PAYER.
Wake up, wake up, quite complaining and join as a united conservative front. Make the best of a great situation.
John, you do like throwing red meat at the jackels on Daily Beast, don't you?
Payback for conservatives is well overdue. And I'm certainly part of presenting a unified conservative front. But we let Bush and Cheney hijack our party, and we suffered for it badly.
And now I'm ready for a revolution. If the GOP can offer a politician who can talk to his peers AND has more than just modest brainpower, the party will gain strength. Otherwise, let the revolution begin. Off with ALL their heads.
Not to mention one or two jackas... er, jackals here on the JB blog.
Lest my irony be too dry for the printed word, I was referring to myself in the last post.