PARTY! Dem PARTY that is! And Rumsfeld is OUT? Wow.
The message was delivered yesterday LOUD and CLEAR. The US Voter does NOT want Politics As Usual. We’ve got the house, and we’re within a hair’s breadth of taking the Senate, though I fully expect it to wait for a recount in Virginia.
I am in awe. The power of the people has spoken.
We delivered the message so loudly and so clearly that Rumsfeld is OUT. Though I don’t expect that Robert Gates, Bush’s proposed replacement, will do much beyond rubber stamp what the administration wants, at the very least there will be less antagonism, and possibly a different viewpoint. And since some checks and balances have been restored he can’t go too far wrong.
What else does this all mean?
It means many of our soldiers will be coming home, the ones remaining will be moved out of the worst areas, and things will start to move toward a resolution in Iraq, even if it means partitioning the country.
It means that the FCC will be less likely to rubber stamp huge mergers of telecommunications companies and big media. They’ll also have much more oversight from a Democratic Congress. Net Neutrality will most likely be restored. And the anti-competitive nature of the FCC’s recent past rulings will be corrected. Our diverse voice will be restored.
This will also give Copps and Adelstein, the two Dem members of the FCC, more power to do what’s right, which they’ve been working toward. Now they should succeed more easily.
Personal liberties will be restored and better protected, and oversight will be restored.
Health care for the poor, and more reasonable options for health insurance coverage for the lower middle class will be given a priority.
FEMA will be restructured and made back into an effective agency.
The Department of Homeland Security will also most likely undergo restructuring and have its rubber stamp taken away. Shampoo will no longer be declared a potential weapon of mass destruction when carried on an airplane within the US.
Environmental issues will be favored and promoted along with investment in alternative energy sources, and Big Oil and other polluting and land-raping industries will no longer be given a rubber stamp.
People are regaining their optimism. Will there be bitching? Of course. Will we win every battle? Certainly not. But the feeling of gloom and doom is gone. There’s hope.
WOOHOO!
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