Yea, I was wrong and be careful what you don’t ask for

So we survived the “mid term” election, it sucked or maybe it didn’t, but we survived. Mid term election is such a weird term since we have elections every two years so why don’t we just call it the biennial election? Just a question.

So the Republicans won the House, hence who wins in our country? I know some people are happy that we have a mixed government. And in some ways that can be good. Legislation gets drawn out, only laws that are  absolutely needed pass because partisan policy is denied. Crisis can be a problem, but if rational leaders on both sides of the aisle exist then they can also be addressed in a modified way.

Yet McCarthy has more than his hands full with his own party. And personally and I may be wrong, he won’t be able to handle his party. The extremes are already lining up to cause havoc on a daily basis. So what happens if the world turns sideways on them. How will they react? Do they just say no to everything in their maddening attempt to bring down those dangerous democrats? 

Do they actually think their delusional investigations will produce results? There might be some fire underneath Hunter Biden, but beyond that, what else is there? 

So here is the kicker for the Republican Party as a whole. If the Freedom Caucus does what it wants they can pretty much kiss the Republican chances good bye in 2024. You know, that next biennial election. 

If a catastrophe happens such as a large recession and the Republicans were out of power then they would retake the government, but since the government is split and both sides have slim majorities in either legislative body, then the body politic is going to blame whomever doesn’t act. And if the Freedom Caucus tries to shut down fixing any problems then they shoot the Republican party down.

And with no crisis and they just regurgitate investigation and accusation ad nauseum then the Republican party apparatus will look like a vomit laden pile of manure. 

People may hate government and complain all day, but in the end they do expect some lip service to solutions. And occasionally an actual result produced. 

So the Republicans won the House, McCarthy will be Speaker, he will fail but at least it is only two years until the next election which we started fretting about November 9th. Do we ever get a break?

And by the way the New York Post said some retired guy from Florida is running for President. It definitely won’t be a quiet and boring two years. 

And for fun maybe he will pick Lake to be his VP choice. They can drive democracy over a cliff together. Or just drive themselves into oblivion, we can only pray.