| HappySqurriel said: This will make things interesting ... Every political ideology is flawed, and when executed without strong opposition it tends to result in very negative outcomes for most people. The question isn’t "If" we will see negative outcomes from Washington being controlled by one party (and one ideology), its "When" ... As in "When will we start to see these outcomes?" and "When will the voters hold the Democrats accountable?" Now, I could be wrong but I suspect that the answer to those questions really depends on when the Republican party will return to its small government roots ... |
I agree with you. A lot of it has to do with how much the party in power can control themselves. Sometimes you don't even need a good ideology if you aren't really pushing one aggressively and aren't abusing your power.
Obviously, Democrats have not had this kind of power in a long time, so expecting them to move tepidly in the beginning is just foolish from anyone's standpoint. And they have good reason to be aggressive now. If you want to get the difficult things you want done, there is no better time than on the heels of just getting voted into office in an election that was a rout for the other party.
The real question is what the Democrats will do after they get the "big ticket" things done, which everyone, including the American public, expects them to go after. A good parallel is how the Republicans handled themselves in Congress after they won back the majority in 1994.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
