Well... blast

[kickaha]

On the good side, the single-party lock on executive and legislative branches has been broken. Excellent. That was entirely too lopsided.

On the bad side, a single party now controls (barely) both halves of the legislative branch... and in two years it's almost certain they'll hold the executive branch as well...

...and we'll be right back where we started. Crap. Watch the insanity begin again as The Other White Meat begins *their* feeding frenzy.

Can a brother get some *balance*??

All I can hope for is that in two years the Congress splits again.

Comments

[treebyleaf.livejournal.com]

Um... oh hell f*ck no?

Balance isn't going to get us Habeas Corpus back. Balance would slow down and even out the changes happening, meaning we'd be settled where we are, and where we are is a scary, scary place to be.

"back where we started"-- back when I word-associated "politics" to pork-bellies and term limits? Please, please, please. Now I associate "politics" with journalists being handed over to military processing, holding facilities in my city imprisoning people without charges, people of color being threatened with arrest by uniformed officials for showing up at the Ballard locks with a camera, ordinary protesters being held days in warehouses without access to blankets, food, hygiene, or medication on the authority of party leaders.

Yep. Dems suck too. I know it. But in between Senator Bedfellow and Senator McCarthy, I'll dance in the streets for Bedfellow. My only hope is that the Democratic Party will take this as a mandate to restore civil liberties with reactionary zeal; my greatest fear is that they will try to capitalize on the increased power themselves, and change nothing.

[maisimai.livejournal.com]

My perspective is that actuallly the "middle/independents" came out from underneath their damn propaganda induced stupor/rock and went wtf and how did I get here? by not paying attention... But in more typical times the middle has usually prevailed by splitting the exec and leg branches.

I am not necessarily convinced that the dems have a lock on both the executive and legislative branches in 08. 1. the dems have approximately 12 months to prove that they can keep it together and be disciplined legislators--never an easy task. and 2. Neither party has a truly viable candidate. Hillary and McCain are lightening rods for controversy. McCain is a lot more conservative than most people realize and folks who might have supported him previously--might feel burned by the lies that bush &co have espoused--the wolf in sheeps clothing scenario as it were. And Hillary is hillary. You want to talk about polarization. Put together the "dream" tix of obama and hil and lets see what happens.

I love hillary--always have--but she won't be the 1st female prez of the US, it could be Ms Nancy "2 heartbeats away" Pelosi. Now that would be worth the price of admission to to some of the uber conservative places in the country, if it ever happened. Oh Darth Cheney is thundering around his undisclosed location over that one. Just don't go hunting with him Nancy;)

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

It is indeed a sad state of affairs when gridlock is the optimum political outcome.

I had a long-winded followup for that sentence (long-winded? me?), but it was too depressing. I will summarize by saying: Enjoy your feeble victory, foolish mortals, for the erosion of your rights will resume sooner than you believe.

Mwahaha...oh, never mind.