Election good news and bad

Sure, there's likely to be bad news today, coming out of this election, for us progressives, but frankly, it should only be one thing.  That is, a bunch of Republicans will get voted into offices and we'll likely lose control of the House of Representatives.

Sure, there will be other areas where we lose this or that but it should be on a smaller scale.

With this election, though, there should be a great deal of good news, at least eventually, due to this election.

To begin with, Republicans, if they do control the House, are going to be tearing each other apart, for starters, because they don't have only one direction.  It looks to be a very divisive group, even with their organized "talking point" of each day.

Second, Republicans are threatening to shut down the government with this control.

Here's hoping.

That didn't work for them last time they tried it and I think the American people are even more short-tempered about this kind of thing now.  All we're looking for is a government that works--not one that's still seriously dysfunctional and non-working.

Third, face it, the 2012 presidential election starts tomorrow--or, rather, tonight at midnight.  And while that's not good for you and I--the working person on the street--that means all these people (men and women) will be jockeying and positioning themselves to be "the" candidate for the highest office in the land.  That means they'll have to stand out from the pack.  That means they'll have to go against their own party.  Yahoo.

Fourth, with Republicans in control of any part of Congress, you know they'll be showing their "true colors".  They'll be pushing and voting for things just for their core constituency.  Yep, you guessed it, they'll be creating wonderful benefits for corporations, to the exclusion of, again, you and I, the working stiff.  That will give everyone else great political ammunition to go after them.

Fifth and finally, I think, is this, from the news this morning:

Next for GOP leaders: Stopping Palin

Top Republicans in Washington and in the national GOP establishment say the 2010 campaign highlighted an urgent task that they will begin in earnest as soon as the elections are over: Stop Sarah Palin.

And this is magnificent, folks.  Seriously and for a few reasons.  First, they'll be tearing her down which will just keep them busy.  There's nothing like an in-family squabble to both make things interesting and make the whole shooting match go down, so to speak.

Next, think about it.  Who, from the Republican Party, that is either new or well-known (because that's what it's going to take--someone either new in the Party or already well-known) has enough charisma and intelligence to knock down the juggernaut that has become Sarah Palin?

If you can think of who that is, more power to you.  I can't.  And I think a lot of Republicans are like you and me on this note.  I certainly don't think Mitt Romney is the guy who can do it but who knows?  Maybe I'm wrong.  It sure isn't Bobby Jindall.  (Bwahahahahaha.  Oh, wait.  Don't make me laugh).

It seems clear that the Republicans will be tearing each other--and the Party--apart for the next two years, with no good, clear direction for the country.  And while that's unfortunate they won't have good things to do or offer for the country, it's good for Progressives and Democrats, both, so here's to that.

To close, I will say one last thing and that is what absolutely should not happen in the next two years, leading into the 2012 election.  That is, the Republicans had better not pull that same desperate, pathetic, horribly wasteful and negative crap they did last time around, with Bill Clinton, and charge this president with some made-up crime and go for impeachment.  It went nowhere last time and we have too many problems at stake for them to pull it now.  

Think happy thoughts, campers!

Links:  http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/44449;_ylt=Aqkr9ujk6Du._u4waZmz.cOs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNibmJtdnBoBGFzc2V0A3BvbGl0aWNvLzIwMTAxMTAxLzQ0NDQ5BGNjb2RlA21vc3Rwb3B1bGFyBGNwb3MDMQRwb3MDMgRwdANob21lX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yeQRzbGsDbmV4dGZvcmdvcGxl

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