The left let down

Originally published in the Valencia Voice

While many insist on rejoicing in the recent wake of last night’s victories, it must be noted that our nation’s changes in leadership is a mere act of unearned buyer’s remorse.

Americans in 2008 unanimously decided that after the terrible leadership of the George W. Bush administration and his Republican cohorts, that a positive change could be enacted by the Democrats. Did we honestly think they’d do it over night?

It has only been two years, yet fickle voters have changed sides back to the very party that spent over eight years getting us into this mess.

Consider for a moment the Republicans’ most powerful tool in Obama’s two year turn; the filibuster. The parliamentary procedure has given the right ultimate power in shutting down votes with only an individual.

Democratic America has been trying to nurse the wounds of a broken nation with a busted leg of their own. Yet so many have decided that two years is more than enough time for a miracle.

The reality is clear. We can expect two years of absolutely nothing. With a Republican House majority, how can we expect any progress in our nation’s domestic issues?

Best case scenario? A government that can’t pass a single proposed bill.

Worst case? A Congress that refuses to govern, as was the case in 1995 during Bill Clinton’s administration, when Republicans used the nation’s yearly budget as a negotiation tool to hold our nations better interest hostage.

So much of our hopes for an economic turn around are now burdened upon the shoulders of those would rather freeze up than work alongside our president.

In youth I was told that you can never fail as long as you try. That failure only happens when you quit. Let’s get ready for a Congress willing to walk out on its people.