The Blue Pill or the Red Pill?

So the Democrats had a good night, although all of my local picks went down in flames. Staten Island is like a bit of Georgia right here in old New York. It’s a strong Republican bastion in an otherwise reasonable part of the country. I confess that I am pleased that the crooks and scalawags were run out of the Congress, but less pleased that they have been replaced by a bunch of moderate to conservative democrats. This Congress had better take a strong position against the President’s policies or pay the price in 2008. Bush’s consolidation of power in the Chief executive makes the Presidential election more important than the mid-terms. The dems should be laying the groundwork from day one for that victory.

The White House response to the drubbing the Republicans received in the House was to reassert the President’s agenda and to feign a desire for partisanship. Pelosi, in typical Democratic fashion is willing to reach across the isle and work with a man who has derided her party as a bunch of terrorist lovers and traitors. Bush put in the obligatory congratulatory call to Pelosi and Reid and his deputy press secretary commented that there was "a strong spirit of goodwill in the conversations," adding that Bush and the new leadership "will start strategizing about how they will get things done in the next Congress." However, Snow reiterated that Bush would still try to ram through his privatization of Social Security and push for more tax cuts. Snow, who worked conservative talk radio for three hours yesterday afternoon, said Democrats now "have to decide whether they're going to be part of the solution, or are going to try to shut down the government for two years and point fingers at the President." Hmmm. I think I'll take choice number two; Point fingers! Point fingers!

While Pelosi and the other Dems are looking to make nice with Bush, I say now is the time to move for hearings on the run-up to the Iraq war and start broaching the issue of impeachment. This White House has made it very clear over the last six years that any member of the opposition who deviates from the Bush master plan on taxes and terror would be met with accusations of being unpatriotic and weak. I see no reason not to go after Bush for his crimes, which a re numerous. The people’s confidence in this government is already shaken to the core and someone should be held accountable. 2000 dead in Iraq for no reason; an increased and revitalized global jihadist movement and the obliteration of the Constitution. How can one compromise with such people?