Wednesday, November 24, 2010

We Won! Or did we...

Well, we know that the Tea Party (whatever that is, exactly--there is a lot of confusion about that) had a tremendous impact on the recent elections. Whether that is a good thing or a bad thing is a matter of opinion. I happen to think that was a good thing. So I was looking forward to see the freshman class of Congressmen have an impact on Washington. Hopefully then can do better than what I'm reading about now. Consider this article.

From The Daily Beast:
"The Tea Party's Whiny Takeover" by John Batchelor
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-11-20/the-tea-partys-whiny-takeover/full/

The article describes the situation very well:

"The pay-off for Boehner arrived when it was time to vote by secret ballot on the leadership for the 112th Congress. The froshers settled down dutifully and, without any doubts or even questions as to why there was only one name on the ballot for each leadership position, they voted for the men and women who had twice approved the Bush administration's TARP heresy in 2008 that began the long fall of the country into bailout nationhood.

"'The Tea Party kept the TARP leaders in power,' scoffed an unhappy veteran Republican. 'The revolution was over the first day.'"


Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. I'm not holding my breath for any progress in Washington.

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