Infinite Monkeys

Michael Medved has a blog? Huh. How about that.

RobbL,

Gloat all you want. We still have to deal with Pelosi....and that can't be good for anyone...even Libertarians.... Unless of course, you were in favor of Hillary's health care plan and a laundry list of other far left proposals.

If you WANT Nancy Pelosi running the House and WANT Dirty Harry Reid running the Senate, then of course being a spoiler is a good thing. Guy's right, I don't see how that is a good thing, and that's all that resulted from the "spoilers". Not much to be proud of.

Guy and James,

Let's get real here - Hillary couldn't pass health care with both houses AND the Presidency. After six years (not counting the brief "Daschle" period in the Senate) of Republican rule, nothing even vaguely "good" has come out of Washington. Government is larger, spending is obscene, we are less free, and we're involved in an immoral and unproductive war.

Given the Republicans' and Democrats' collective track record over the last 30 years or so, I have absolutely nothing to be afraid of from Pelosi and Reid. Neither one has a majority that can override a presidential veto, so the only person who we really have to fear is, you guessed it, George W. Bush.

But if you fear Bush for his tendency to fall to left-wing ideas such as greater spending, amnesty, and so on (and, yes, even Wilsonian ideas of rescuing the world and nation building)then aren't you more afraid? I mean, it would be one thing if you were confident that silly ideas would be vetoed, but you clearly aren't.

No, I don't have any confidence that he will veto bills presented by the Democrats. However, I'm not afraid of what they might present. Tax increases? Entitlements? Minimum wage hikes? Not my cup of tea, by any means, but nothing that will shake the foundations of the Republic. The Democrats will not pass laws giving the Executive Branch more power. That alone is better than what the Republicans have done since 2001.

They also hold a fairly slim majority, and many of their new seats are moderates. I don't imagine that any of those moderates want to be one-termers. The most likely scenario is the Dems will fumble around for two years, raise the minimum wage, and maybe hold some hearings that wind up making everyone look bad. All in all, a much rosier outcome than two more years of Republican rule.

Now, if I'd had my way, I might have chosen that the GOP retained control of the Senate, just to even further reduce the chances that any legislation even makes it to the President's desk. But the more I think of it, the more I think this outcome is better. My guess is, we'll see two years of budgets that are much closer to balancing that we saw under the Republicans, we'll get out of Iraq sooner, and Bush won't get approval to use force against any other nation in the region. We'll see.

Will GWB piss on his base out of spite? Probably, but what do you expect from a closet fascist. The Night of the Long Knives is coming.