Ahh, if only it could be true.

But thanks for the thought and the effort behind it.

For those of us who say LORD,hear our
prayer = HE did!

Same song, another day. Two halves of the Boot-on-Your-Neck Party "changing" goals at halftime. Didn't get to my polling place Tuesday (I'm in New Jersey, no vote I've made in two decades here has been on a winning side, not just politicians but amendments to the state Constitution where I always vote NO). It was the evening to take out trash and recyclables (I don't take out the recyclables every week, but when I do, I look like a serious alcoholic).

I have to add, though, in spite of all the discussions etc. I feet a sense of relief among the folks around here. I live in a pre-dominantly conservative area and feel myself exceedingly lucky for that. The past few days, the mood is like a great weight has been lifted off our shoulders. The situations may not be perfect but IMHO at least we have a chance. Our task now is to hold our new leaders feet to the fire, don't let them get fat and comfortable in their new positions.

Now that he's older, losing his hair
And still quoting Mao
Michelle is rabble rousing right beside his side
the thought of it makes me want to go hide
Hearing them talk, all day and all night
Usually leaves me cryin'...
I'll be a hater
He'll still be a dictator
When I'm sixty-nine...

He could be handy, quoting Quran
And Sharia Law
Beheading all his enemies on the White House lawn
Democracy and freedom Forever gone
When I think back to what we once had
It's now a thoughtcrime
Will they just shoot me
Yes, execute me
When I'm sixty-nine

Every winter we are sent to Gulag in the north USA
when it's ten below
haven't got a coat
but we've got ourselves a shovel
To, just, dig, a, moat...

Send me a pardon, drop me some food
some earplugs would do
blocking out the words blaring from the P.A.
Got my mind Just wasting away
Because there's no reason, no hope and no strength
to fight or even whine
Its just to damn scary, that life under Barry
After I'm sixty-nine...

It was a couple days ago today
Told ol' Harry that he couldn't stay
His psychosis has gone out of style
and it's been that way for quite a while
Because he's such a clueless louse
He's still trying to espouse
Barack Obama's nifty five year plan...

Barack Obama's Nifty Five Year Plan
He dumps it on you, yes, and how
Barack Obama's fun and nifty, grifty 5 year plan
He got it from his book of Mao
Ol' Obama's, Ol' Obama's Ol' Obama's five year plan.

It's wonderful to rule you
It's such a power trip
We're watching you, the audience
We're watching all the audience
We'll live inside your home

they really don't want us to stop their show
But we're telling them it's time to go
We're starting up a brand new song
So they all had best just go git gone
So let me introduce to you
a way of life foreign to you
Without Obama's grifty five year plan...

THAT would be awesome, and would let us see if either really do have leadership potential, or are just more of the same.

Too bad we don't have a say in that...

I think it's a little early to gloat- and we have yet to get the 7% Libertarians and the loser Republicans to put their egos away and vote for the Republicans that can actually BEAT the remaining Democrats. Ron and Rand Paul COULD have saved 2012. Instead Ron threw us under the bus and Rand did nothing to regather the troops and support Romneyy who would have been better than this maelstrom rained upon us in the last 2 years.

If Boehner gets put back in as Speaker of the House and McConnell and Senate Majority Leader, nothing will change. It isn't the (R) or (D) behind the name, but the principles they live by that matters.

I will be encouraged if Ted Cruz or Rand Paul takes over as Senate Majority Leader and someone like Trey Gowdy as Speaker. Barring that, I think all that has happened is that the Republicans have been given enough rope to hang themselves with.

LOVE IT!

No moochers there to rule you
Politicos no longer able to fool you
Flushed like sewage, dumped deep into the sea
The dream is coming back for me...

Say nighty night to looting scum
Give the boot to all the pull trading dust bums
When I imagine, how our land can now be
The dream's returned for you and me

What a beautiful, hopeful sentiment. We can dream.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwH4wPz-U...

Mee- chelle, O's belle,
We have learned your tricks and ways so well,
Made our lives hell...

Au revoir, au revoir au revoir...
Now go away
We hope your toxic legacy
Won't come again someday...
Or so we pray...

Great Words, Suzanne!

I'm expecting a series of executive actions done
quickly, with slooooooow parallel actions in the
con-gress, attempting to thwart the executive
actions.

BHO will work the timing of things -- do things
fast and watch 'em try to figure out what to do
in response.

maybe a congressional end run -- a law to
discount executive orders somehow??? -- j

I hope that those newly elected and those who have saved their positions realize that the people didn't cause a Republican tsunami in order for them to get along with Obama and compromise. If they wanted to get along with Obama, they would have elected Democrats! So, hopefully, Susanne, dear, they'll remember why we put them there and two years from now, we can sing, Michelle, ma belle, glad to see you go away for good.

Well done, I love it. After I read it I even tried to sing it. Such great talent here in Galt's Gulch, yes, and I'm starting to understand why.

Ditto..relieved.

To all of the nay-sayers:

Let us hope. Even if just for a moment.

It is Soooooo nice to NOT have elected a strong Democrat slate. Even if the next two years are not as productive as they should be, this is a change in the sea wind.

Jan, relieved

Rational and succinct.

You are dreaming. History predicts no change for the next two years. The electorate routinely turns out the party in power in off-year elections. Everything continues on as before. The Republicans are not going try to repeal the ACA ("Obamacare") because their supporters in the insurance industry want the ACA which is why it was enacted in the first place. The US will still be involved in military operations overseas. The federal budget might see some cosmetic changes, but at $3.5 trillion (cash basis) annually, a cut here or there of a billion may make big headlines, but will have no effect. No one is going to touch Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security, which are over half the budget (53% principle plus 6% interest). That interest is paid to... well... you know all about that; and that is not going away either.

Change does not come from a single bi-annual election. It comes from a change in culture which is predicated on a change in philosophy, often implicit. Not only is the evidence apparent for classical Greece, the Renaissance, and the Industrial Revolution, it can be shown be true in the 5000 year history of China. Emperors come and go, good and bad, only when the people get rational do their lives improve.

ah yes - hope springs eternal...
when the republicans we're in charge
under Bush the First, with both houses of Congress,
taxes and spending went up as fast as ever.
No significant regulations reductions --
even Bush the First pledge of
"No new taxes" was re-interpreted in Orwellian style as
"KNOW new taxes"

Demicans to the side, republicrats to the forefront - hope yes - but likely history just repeating itself

And may he take the entire administration and US con-gress with him.

Thats why the 2nd amendment was written.
Meet you in south Texas, NM, AZ.

Two-thirds of the Senate.

Meanwhile, that stubborn (de facto) President is singing, "Back to the U.S.S.R.!"