By Douglas V. Gibbs
Come January the Republican Party will have a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. In the U.S. Senate the GOP gained seats, placing the Grand Ol' Party that much closer to gaining control of that house of Congress. Republicans are optimistic that they will move back into the White House, and have a majority in the Senate, after election 2012. The rise of the Republicans has garnered a vast array of reactions.
The liberal base of the Democrat Party believes that the GOP tidal wave of 2010 was the result of Obama and gang not acting liberal enough, nor getting enough of their hard left liberal policies through. The Obama administration has voiced the opinion that November 2nd was not a referendum against Obama's policies, but merely the result of the president failing to communicate all of the benefits of his progressive policies. Conservatives believe that the 2010 mid-term election portrayed the effectiveness of the Tea Party, and America's dissatisfaction with the Democrat Party's push of European style socialist programs. Establishment Republicans saw this year's election as an inconvenient interruption of their politics-as-usual by a bunch of pesky amateurs. Libertarians see no difference, since in their opinion there is no difference between the political parties; this election was just another planned shift of power orchestrated by the bankers, new world order people, and the military industrial complex.
I, however, though optimistic that this last election was a step in the right direction, don't trust humanity's flawed nature enough to be particularly excited about believing we have escaped the brink of disaster. Reality is reality, and the damage inflicted by the liberal Democrats has been devastating.
The natural tendency of humanity is to seek power, expand government, and take from the treasury gifts of entitlement if one can get away with it. Let's be honest, self-reliance and personal responsibility takes work, and most people in today's society, due to generations of progressive propaganda and nudging, does not have the self-discipline. Such decay in society's ethics and values is normally only corrected by revolution, or the people being cornered and forced to fend for themselves when the system of entitlement collapses under the weight of unsustainability. Here in America, I would prefer we turn this around through a less painful alternative.
The Republican freshmen that will be taking their seats in Congress are human. We expect them to act in a certain manner, hopefully in a constitutional manner, but it is unrealistic to expect all of them to not fall for the establishment way of doing things in Washington.
Americans need to remain vigilant in holding these politician's feet to the fire. Rather Democrats, or Republicans, the potential for corruption, and seizing more power for the government, remains in place. It is up to us to keep these people honest. The new Republicans need to understand that just because they have an "R" after their names, it doesn't mean they are exempt from our scrutinization, or wrath. If they act like their liberal counterparts, we will vote them out as well.
United we stand, combined we kick butt. . . November 2nd was only the first step to taking back America. The new Republican House of Representatives are on probation. But if we keep them honest, with the help of the new crop of governors and state legislatures, we can take back America, and return it to what the Founding Fathers originally intended.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
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