The votes are in and as expected Reps take the house and Dems take the Senate. As I write this, we are still awaiting  the Alaska count. What does that mean for  President Obama? On both sides agendas may be hard pressed. Will the Reps play hardball like Newt did with Clinton or how Tip did with Reagan?  Will both parties become bedfellows?

We live in a nation of shock, so is any one really shocked about how the election turned out? Did the Reps make promises they can’t keep? They say the first order of business is extending the Bush era tax cuts.

People are so fickled and mislead, case in point, I was listening to a talk show and a politician mentioned an upset voter who voted for the opposition because they didn’t have a job.

The first order of business is oxymoronic. They, the Republican Tea Party, want a smaller deficit and smaller Government but want to extend Bush era tax cuts. I have to argue, what is wrong with the American people. It’s middle-class Americans that stimulate the economy. Why give more breaks to the rich, they are not creating jobs? The ones benefiting from tax cuts are taking the jobs overseas.

For the most part I’m happy the House of Representatives went to the Reps, now they’re on trail, as one talk show host put it; purgatory. They can no longer be the party of NO.  Their feet are now to the fire. For all their angst and promises they must put it  into legislation.

I think we need differing view points. Both parties are going to have to work together. It’s going to be interesting with the tea party in the mixture, especially a darling like Rand Paul making statements like, “I’m not here to make legislation but to repeal it.” I’m amazed with the attitudes of Americans this is not a victory, Boehner stop crying, grow up and be a man. You’ll be out in two years, it’s just the fickleness of Americans, they want microwave fixes. President Obama needs to stop whining about getting shellacked it happens, simply look back two-years ago.

It’s going to be tough but it can be done. Three ideas have to come together ideally not independently.

John Jones

The NON-Conformist