"Buy the ticket, take the ride..." - Hunter S. Thompson
By PATRICK ALCATRAZ
Editor-In-Chief
McALLEN, Texas - American politics always has been a cheap carnival ride full of fools, idiots, thugs, criminals, and, when we're lucky, a few smart people. Yesterday's mid-term elections brought the usual characters and the expected results. As theater, it was an Off-Broadway play where the witch and the porno freak did not make it to the last act and the kid from out west came from behind to get the gal.
In between the best and worst scenes, the fast-ragging country got a helicopter camera shot of exactly where its mood is these days. Like a newly-divorced woman, it wants change and it wants it now. Not big change, cause the Democrats still hold the White House and the U.S. Senate, but just enough to set a different tone. The GOP awakes today knowing it now has control of the House of Representatives, and that ballsy Speaker of the House, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, will be replaced by Republican Congressman John Boehner of Ohio (shown grimacing in photo). In early commentary, pundits are saying the House will flex its subpoena powers and tackle such burning issues as President Barack Obama's birthplace (many Republicans insist he was born in Kenya and, thus, ineligible to hold the office). Will they repeal the health care reform passed under the previous Congress? Not likely, although they will chip-away at certain aspects of it, none major.
As expected by the more insightful, Republican Christine O'Donnell's witchy Tea Party bid failed in Delaware, as did the GOP's Sharron Angle's in Nevada and crazy Republican Carl "
Porno Freak" Paladino's in New York. In Florida, Republican Marco Rubio beat party-changer Charlie Crist for the governorship, and, in Texas, Republican Rick Perry beat Democrat Bill White. Still in play was the crucial governor's race in California and the U.S. Senate contest in Alaska.
So, what does it mean?
Not much. History shows mid-term elections as being contests during which the party in power loses its pants. It happened to George W. Bush in 2006 and likely will happen again in 2014. What it tends to do is rally the losing party into gearing up for the ensuing national election, which in this case will be the presidential race in 2012.
In looking at how this election unfolded, one could see the noise come to life in a handful of contests that went full-dramatic. The tugging was vigorous, but the thread nonetheless held. America plays a rough game of political musical chairs. That is what gives rise to people such as Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich and Richard M. Nixon and, now, the ever-slurring, always tanned John Boehner, a Speaker of the House who will bring us antics often seen at the circus.
The ticket was handed to you the day you were born into this great land. It's a wild roller-coaster, a runaway bus, a battered Conestoga wagon, a muddy pickup, a shiny SUV, a rusting PT Cruiser, a usedVolvo, a rolling 18-wheeler.
Take the ride, absolutely...
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6 comments:
Good post, I can't see how anything is going to change. Some people forget it is a global economy, it is not a us economy anymore. Oh well, the ice is in the putting, we will see.
ANONYMOUS:...As it is for Humans in their journey through Life, so is a country's evolving travels. Politics is one way we measure progress or regress, and we know it's always been a cycle. But we started out with this flawed idea of who we are. Thomas Jefferson, that Great American who signed the Declaration of Independence, was believed to be European until DNA testing of his Family Tree revealed that he goes back to, yeah, the Middle East, to a land where now Lebanon and Syria rest. Crazy beginnings, eh?... - Editor
The Democrats need to be more agressive, God only knows why they allow the GOP to deamonized then and they counter punch.
The unions in South Texas, are dormant 90 percent of the time. Someone might not agree with this comment. But look at Nevada $14.000.000 dollars were pumped into Sharon Angle's campaign, and Harry Reid won the election.
If congress wants to be the GOPs' punching, well thats okay. But damn, when is Barrack Obama going to start fighting back. Come on man, take the damn gloves and off, and mix up in the rumble.
ANONYMOUS:...It would b enice to se President Obama give the Republicans a taste of their medicine. But he won't. Obama is too educated to flail away at the Redneck mentality. The creation of the racist Tea Party is one example of how White people riot... - Editor
Agree, but the bastards are getting away with nothing but b/s. Everytime they are ask, what programs are you going to eliminate to be fiscal responsible, they won't respond, it always their fiscal responsibility crap, that my man is a damn cliche, nothing more nothing less.
Mitch McOnnel gets over 2 million from the insurance industry. Ran Paul, makes quiet a bit of medical claims from Medicare Medicaid. The bastard is a dentist, and they treat many patients who use the service, what about the farm subsidies.
Why doesn't someone from the democrats, exposes the sob's.
Common democrats quit being nice to the a@%^holes.
The tea party is no more than the klu klux klan in disguise. They can't stand it that an African American is living in the White house.
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