thoughts on the elections yesterday

[south ov da border]

what do ya'll think, how will it change things???

[KittyFallon]

it won't. do mid-terms ever?

[trish]

The House will begin a series of nonsense investigations into Obama's citizenship, whether he sold his prior seat on the Senate etc. There will also be a sustained effort to repeal the health-care bill, gut support for college students, turn back progress in opening up avenues for stem cell research, etc. The upper 2% of the wealthy will get their tax break and some minor program with expenditures two or three orders of magnitude less than what will be lost via the tax break will be cut to "balance" the continuing lost revenue. "Don't ask, don't tell" will fall by the way-side and along with it intolerance toward gays, lesbians and transgendered will find more support in Congress.

[hippifried]

Oh, things will change. Some things actually got done in the last 2 years. Absolutely nothing is going to get done in the next 2 years.

If DADT doesn't get repealed in the lame duck session, then the courts will have to do it.

If the Bush tax breaks don't get sorted out in the lame duck session, every taxpayer could end up with an increase come January. Best anybody can hope for is a temporary extention of the deadline.

On & on... You need both chambers of Congress to pass a law or repeal a law. So it looks like we're going to have 2 years of the same kind of rancor & finger pointing, with no hope of any kind of result. I'm tempted to give away my TV.

[yodajazz]

This idea is coming through me. Some poster was ranting about how business was everything, that government didn't create real jobs. But he said something about talking to "liberals and beggars".

My thing is that, I am for business too, but the botton line for business and profit, or money. It makes no difference to business to hire American workers if foreign ones take much less. Spiritually business or rather people can get greedy to the harm of others. The job of government is to look out for the general good, and this means regulating business for harmful effects, like unhealthy ingredients, and such practices as overcharging for services.

Any I am forming a song. Please excuse some mistakes. Its a basic theme right now. This is basically unedited.

zSHARE - America.mp3

"America Dont Need Greed to Succeed" Yodajazz

It should play automatically, you do not need to download anything.

[PomonaCA]

We're one house from viable numbers for a proper impeachment.

[NYBURBS]

We're one house from viable numbers for a proper impeachment.

Impeach him over what? I'm not a fan, but he's been mild compared to the shit storm that held office just prior to him.

[DL_NL]

Oh, things will change. Some things actually got done in the last 2 years. Absolutely nothing is going to get done in the next 2 years.

Agreed. Nothing will ever come out of a Democrat government in the US because whenever it looks like something new's actually gonna happen, everyone punishes them by voting Conservative.

[south ov da border]

supposedly some stuff is supposed to hit the fan soon...

[trish]

Impeach him over what?

For being too uppity, of course.