Finally I Feel Hope

After almost 10 months of no hope tonight I feel a gentle breeze called hope and I am once again feeling that the last 10 months was nothing but a bad dream.

Unfortunately, the dream is still alive and well and living in Washington D.C. but the dream lost a lot of luster today. What am I talking about? Today’s elections in Virginia, New Jersey, New York and a few other places.

The independents that threw their collective hats at Barak Obama last November picked them up today and took them home. Do you know what our President was doing as the returns came in…playing basketball. Yes, not watching and seeing if he might detect a trend among voters in this off year election cycle but rather he spent time perfecting his jump shot.

Pundits have said in the last week that this is a one term president and I think I can believe them a bit now and I can’t wait until November 2010 at the mid term elections when many of his democratic supporters will be shown the door back to their previous lives.

I am even heartened in the 12 point lead that the Republican senatorial candidate has over Barbara Boxer at this time in California. Hell, I am damn near giddy over all the good news coming over the horizon.

We still have a ways to go but if today’s results don’t get Pelosi and Reid’s attention (yeah, he’s 14 points behind the Republican challenger in Nevada) and if they try to ram health care down our throats while expanding the debt to record ceilings then November 2010 I can predict one thing…Christmas will be about a month early next year.

I suspect as of right now many of the first term Democrats in the house are shaking a bit and I want to see where the moderate Democratic senators are going to fall on the health care issue now.

Obama’s coat tails are as short as an Eisenhower coat and nothing could make me happier. The Democrats saw this coming and did nothing to tone down the rhetoric prior to elections. I know they will blame their losses today on Bush, don’t they always, but they own this one.

I suggest that they sit down and quit calling voters that disagree with them Nazis and other unfathomable names and pay attention because the tsunami is coming next November.

I can’t wait.