That Florida voters are so delusional they would allow a crook to buy his way into the governor's mansion tops my list, but its done. So Scott, let's see you "get to work" and fulfill all of those grandiose campaign promises of yours. I shall be holding my breath waiting for those 700,000 jobs to appear, my taxes to go down, and my quality of life to go up...and I don't mean in smoke.
That the pandering Republican politician Rubio, a faux fiscal conservative, is going to the senate is bad enough. I am just not as upset by his victory as I am with Crist and Meek. Between the two of them, one or the other should have done what was right for Florida and dropped out. It was obvious that neither of these two was going to be able to beat Rubio with both of them in the race. Meek didn't even have to be the drop-out. Crist could just as easily have swallowed his pride, made a deal with Meek and done the right thing for the state. As it is, neither gets the job. Oh well, filing for unemployment compensation is really a breeze, and Scott might be able to put you guys in one of those 700,000 jobs he is going to create.
The Bush/Cheney administration had eight years to totally FUBAR this country. The Republicans and the Teabaggers expected Obama to undo eight years of inept governing in just two years while they attempted to block his every move. Well, the ball is now in the Republican court. I now want to see them do something other than spout political platitudes. They too have just two years to accomplish their lofty goals before the 2012 elections. Let's see them "get to work!" I want to see some action other than Obama-bashing. I want to see America move forward and not back to the stone age.
Rand Paul! This Tea-bagging lunatic now has the power to potentially filibuster this nation and the world into the Mother-of-all-Depressions. Was the electorate in Kentucky hypnotized or just brain dead? Well, they voted for him and now we all may pay the price.
The failure of California's proposition 19 to pass is another heartbreaking, lost opportunity. The legalization of marijuana would have been a great start to ending America's unwinnable, deadly, and wasteful War on Drugs.
In Florida, Amendment 1 which would have ended public financing of state political campaigns failed because...wait for it...most Florida voters are STUPID! Most voters didn't even know what they were voting for. But, they voted anyway and they will continue to finance the campaigns of people they just may not like or support. It makes you wonder, was it money or stupidity that got Scott elected?
All is not doom and gloom, though. There were a few bright spots in the elections:
The Lunatic Party failed to get Fiorina, Miller, Angle and O'Donnell into power, and California didn't allow Meg Whitman to buy her way into the governor's mansion like another state over on the east coast did.
Closer to home, the gerrymandering amendments passed, but with a Republican Legislature will those amendments carry any weight? We will have to wait and see, but these amendments should prove to be the geese that laid the golden egg for lawyers. Actually, the law suits have already started.
Much closer to home, the penny choo-choo tax was rejected by Hillsborough County voters. Light rail may be a good idea, but asking voters to approve an incomplete plan for light rail was, to put it bluntly, stupid.
The next two years should be interesting to say the least. Of the three presidents last century - Truman, Reagan and Clinton - whose parties suffered severe midterm losses, all three went on to easily win re-election. The Republicans can pound away on their victory drums, but if they prove to be as inept as they claim the Democrats are this may be an example of winning the battle and losing the war.
A lot depends on how President Obama reacts over the next two years. When Truman was advised of the losses his party suffered in 1946 he did what any sane man would do. He hightailed it to his vacation retreat in Key West. There he wrote to his wife Bess, "I'm seeing no outsiders. I don't give a damn how put out they get. I am doing as I damn please for the next two years and to hell with all of them." Two years later he won his second term. Obama should consider a vacation in Key West and say, "...to hell with all of them."
One final note for Rick Scott: A 1.3% victory does not send "a loud and clear message." 48.6% of Florida's voters still think you are a jerk. I am one of them!
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