SAD, SOLEMN, AND NOT-SO-SORRY

DAY ONE AFTER THE ELECTION
At the President's post-election presser, his countenance was somber and his mouth said the words "shellacking" and "sadness".  Did the President mean what he said?  Asked directly THREE TIMES whether his policies had anything to do with his shellacking...he said no.  But he LOOKED reflective.  He couldn't have been as sad as the politicians who went down on his ship the day before.  There were a sackful of them who took one for the Gipper.

How can we know whether Barack Obama is contrite or not?  We don't go by what our eyes tell us.
Since this man has a track record of creative verbiage, concentrate carefully
on what was actually said.  http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=552798

Then wait.  True colors have a way of bubbling to the top.

DAY TWO AFTER THE ELECTION
Listen to the spin.  Liberal sources are practically yawning as they couch the story:
"The GOP took the House and 6 Senate seats"

Well, yeah.  That was concise.  The election doesn't seem like a big deal put that way.  Certainly it doesn't sound like what was described in other sources as a tidal wave...or the largest party turnover since 1948.  Just look at the red map.  We are a center-right country.

Do the words "taking 60 seats" sound larger than the words "taking the House"?  The underreporting must have been tricky to accomplish.  It certainly was not all the story.  They could have added the governorships.  Republicans won in PA, OH, MI, WI TN, AL, NE, TX, KS, GA, SC, NM, NV, WY, SD, OK, AZ, UT, ID, AK, MN, IA, and FL.  Plus the state legislatures.

Whether acknowledged or not, this election can change the political landscape for years.  Or so it would seem, but we can't be so sure.  Wasn't it James Carville who, after the 08 election only two years ago, said that the Republicans would be set back for "fohty yeahs" (40 years)? 

DAY THREE AFTER THE ELECTION
Nancy Pelosi says she is not quitting and she's sorry for those friends who wouldn't be returning,
but she is proud of their accomplishments.  Are these people in Wonderland?

Now the Wheel of Fortune puzzle pieces are coming together.  Only an ideologue would ignore what the country is saying.  Did we really think they were going to reach across the aisle?  The first phone call in two years from the President to Minority Leader Mitch McConnell came AFTER the election.  What kind of president does not talk to a Minority Leader even one time in two years?  President Obama must have meant what he said to John Boehner and others back after the 08 election:  "elections have consequences and I won".

Look for the President to come back from his royal tour of the Orient and try again to explain to the unwashed (and in my case, an unwashed hillbilly) about how brilliant his plan really is.  It must be the ultimate irony that in the year since healthcare passed, the Great Communicator pitched it over and over, but can't make us understand.  Perhaps his teleprompter could be slowed...