The 2014 Election proved to be a
very bad night for Democrats and will probably have an impact on the 2016
Presidential Race. You know it is bad for the Democrats when Senator Mitch McConnell
from Kentucky, the leader of the Senate Republicans wins the election early in
the evening and by a large margin. He is 72 years old, He vowed to “turn this
country around” in his acceptance speech and he probably can since Republicans
in general won all the crucial seats they needed to take over the U S Senate
making him the new Senate Majority Leader.
For the first time in the history
of West Virginia a woman has been elected to go to the Senate with the election
of Shelley Moore Capito. 65% of Americans feel that the country is going on the
wrong tract that prompted many Democratic candidates to distance themselves
from President Obama. Democrats won some Governor races as in Pennsylvania and
New Hampshire. No matter what side you are on, victory did not come cheap. A
whopping $3.6 dollars was wasted on the cost of these elections. Not a dime of that money was spent to make it
easier for voters to vote. We still have to show up at the old high school and
vote the old fashioned way.
Most of that money was spent on
lots of TV Advertisements and printed cards sent to every household in America
name calling each other and making our elected officials look more like
criminals than anyone we would ever want voted in to a new job. No wonder
people have no desire to make the effort to vote. Conservative Toni Ernst boasted in her ads that she grew up on a farm
castrating hogs and said, “When I get to Washington, I’ll know how to cut pork.”
She had her victory in Iowa and then said,” We are going to make then squeal.”
OUCH!
So what does this mean for the
rest of Obama’s years in office? We have now big Republican majorities in the
House, a majority of 55 seats in the Senate so now the Republican Congress will
be able to pretty much pass whatever they want to pass. The President still has
his Veto pen in hand. There is a wide open Republican field for candidates they
will want to push for a Presidential election in 2 years. The Republican majority will now be able to
change immigration laws, repeal Obama care, clean air act bills, women’s
pay,abortion, gun control and try to get the Keystone pipe line of oil from
Canada to South America passed. I expect President Obama to have completely
white hair by the time he is done in office.
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