Wish I could find the quote reference for Karl Rove’s saying “they’ll come home once they realize what their choice is.” Well, plenty of folks realized their choice was between a Republican national party that is perfectly comfortable saying in public “where ya gonna go,” and a stable of surprisingly moderate Democrats… and decided that by and large, they could live with Speaker Pelosi embarrassing herself in public for a couple of years.
Watch the turnout: I’m betting a LOT of libertarian and fiscal-conservative Republicans pulled Democrat levers this time around, or simply didn’t show. As I posted earlier this year:
In other words, Bush, Lott, Frist, et. al., have said to the conservatives and small-l libertarians, “we own you. Where you gonna go?” …. the response is likely to be “out to dinner, chump.”
Brian Rogers
/ November 8, 2006Well said!
Chris - Wichita
/ November 8, 2006I can’t get too excited about the whole thing – I don’t like the democrats, and I’m also not at all happy about the lack of fiscal responsibility from the republicans… All I want is to keep taxes low, and get rid of this ridiculous big government social spending, while beating the hell out of people who would like to do us harm internationally – whether they’re reasonably capable of it or not….
Mike
/ November 8, 2006Ditto the above comment. Besides, like I have told my liberal family members “If I can survive 8 years of Clinton you can survive 8 yearas of Bush”. And taking that the next step “I can also survive 2 years of a Democratic Congress just like you survived 12 years of Republican Controlled Congress”.
If you don’t like who is in power, wait 2 or 4 years and amazingly enough it will change. I just can’t get over how many people act like this is somehow a Boston Tea party or huge revolution. It’s called a “Peaceful Turnover of Power” and if you had paid attention in US History class, you would know this and be more concerned about “why can’t the rest of the world clue into this idea?”