The Blue Wave That Wasn’t spectator.org/the-blue-wave-…
Grandma Pelosi gets the gavel and the subpoena power and that’s enough for Democrats. A friend asked me if the Dems’ slim House margin will force them to cooperate with the President. To which I ask: Have you met these people?
Democrats have been setting things on fire, kicking their political enemies, and beating up anyone wearing red these days. No, they will not be mollified by torturing Trump but not impeaching him. They won’t be content to “work together”. They want blood.
This election won’t give them enough of it. It does give them some semblance of a win and that’s enough to give Democrats hope that the GOP destruction is possible, if not eminent.
Pelosi is a wily old lady, but she’ll be facing a more conservative Republican minority, less likely to sell out to the Democrats. Welcome to a cage match. The Democrats need this violence to sate them.
Meanwhile, Senate politics just shifted bigly. Lindsey Graham, still outraged about the Democrats’ vile behavior, promised more judicial appointments. He was spiking the football all over Twitter last night. An unleashed @LindseyGrahamSC is a sight to behold.
The interesting thing about the 2018 midterms: The nuanced voting. There’s plenty of evidence that America is a stupid place, but the voting last night seems to contradict that belief. The voters picked through their choices in ways subtle and dramatic.
Subtly, they told Ted Cruz that he wasn’t as well-liked as Governor Greg Abbott and to tread carefully. Dramatically, they repudiated Senators McCaskill, Donnelly, and Heitkamp who participated in the egregious Senate spectacle to thwart Kavanaugh’s ascension to the Supreme Court
In Florida, ex-cons won back their voting rights, but Gillum lost. Voters threaded their votes through ballot initiatives on things like medical and recreational marijuana. Voters split tickets for their House and Senate races.
The Republicans won by not losing as badly as expected and picking up seats in the Senate. The Democrats won by winning the House. Who lost, then? The media. Also, Barack Obama.
No one is paying attention to the media. If Hollywood celebrities and the political commentariat had the influence they like to believe they wield, Beto O’Rourke wouldn’t just be Senator, he’d be the Obamaesque heir apparent and future President. That didn’t happen.
All the lavish praise and time and attention, that should be considered an in-kind donation, should have helped O’Rourke during a midterm featuring an unpopular president of the opposite party. That didn’t happen.
The huge wave that the media pushed and hoped for didn’t happen. The media has so devalued themselves that people no longer trust them, even as they watch them for entertainment.
Meanwhile, the phenom Barack Obama, who found it impossible to put a sock in it these last two years and answered the siren call of campaigning managed to help each Democrat he stumped for lose. He was absolutely toxic, again, to Democrats.
These miserable Dems, and Pelosi is one of them, are divisive and inspire animus. Not all Dems do that for moderate voters, but the party has moved so far Left because they can’t win elections without being spiteful and rabid.
This puts Dems in a bit of a quandary going forward. Work with the President and be reviled by their base. Hate on the President and be reviled by the country.
