We won! We won! This is amazing. We took back the House.
I remember losing the House. It was my senior year. Election day i was heading up to campasus and CNN was on. Thinsg were not looking good but who thought the Republicans would take over. They did. That shift was a shock. We thought maybe twenty seats but not 40 plus. Watching all the greats go down was painful. That was a message that Dems were out of control and out of touch.
I think the Dem takeover shows that people are sick of heavy handed governing. It shows us that without listening to what the people want you can lose. The administration is out of touch. They do nothing to assuage our fears and anxiety and present us with rhetoric and false hope. Is this about a mandate. A mandate of our policies? WHat are our policies?
Election day is a hoot. You are up at 430am putting out signs. If you get coereced you are stuck at a poll freezing to death handing out literature. Then you get to vote. i like it when the polling place is full. You get to compare with primary day and see who is a real American. Anyway, putting up signs in the early morning you always run into sign vandals and the angry election judge at you and knocking signs over. Election parties are fun if you were part of the campaign otherwise it is boring. Then you stay up late wtaching returns going up and down.
God how geeky!!
Anyway, we won and i feel empty. Like it was all a dream. I have always wanted to be in the majority and now i have it. i guess if i keep wishing for a billion dollars and Heidi Klum that will come true as well.
Most of this incoming class are moderates. thos eguys better band togther into a voting block to have a say in process and policy if not we the pendulum will swing out of control.
Viva la revoliution
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When Lawrence Smith was a teenager, he developed the eating disorder
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1 comment:
Perhaps the reason for the "emptiness" is that there really is little substance in politics. All the hoopla about "change" is nothing more than cheap words spouted by the party leadership and parroted by the candidates.
I find it interesting that Dems blame Reps for all societal ills (just as Reps blamed Dems twelve years ago) - as though the minority party had nothing to do with any of the problems.
The greatest sin perpetrated upon the American people is blind party worship. Our people no longer look to the candidate(s) who will foster a better society - our society has been programmed to vote along whatever party line they feel associated with.
Listen closely to the discussion and it's always about "the party" and rarely about "the people." I fear that until we can untether ourselves from party enslavement our nation will continue to erode.
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