Politics
What the Midterm Election Results Mean
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Ever since the Republicans gained the House of Representatives in the midterm election, the GOP has been boasting an uncompromisable, egotistical front. They say that the American people have spoken, that they will deliver change, and that everything Democratic will be rolled back. What many politicians can’t seem to understand is that the American people did not vote “for” anything; rather, they voted “against” the status quo.
In this vote was the vaguely defined “change” everyone is seeking. Of course, in a bipartisan two-party system, political change is a possibility. However, this task becomes much more complicated considering that the Republicans do not have control of the Senate or the Presidency. Instead of a wave of legislation in the name of “change”, a split Congress is simply going to create gridlock. Even when the Democrats had complete control of Congress they couldn’t follow through completely on their campaign goals. Considering this, the expectations of the Republican party seem even more unrealistic.
A big campaign point of the GOP has been its desire to rid the country of Obama’s health care reform. Over the next two years, the Republicans in the House will probably spend a lot of time fighting for the repeal, all to no avail. Any full repeal would not be passed by the Senate, and even it got past both houses of congress, the President would veto it.
Yet John Boehner, Republican minority leader and assumed new Speaker of the House, continues to blatantly push the idea because his party has promised it to their constituency. Back and forth they’ll push and fight, and Boehner and his associates will never achieve anything. By creating a list of impractical political change, the Republican party will end paving the way for its own collapse.
For all liberals and Democrats, the election is not a complete nightmare. Yes, it will become more difficult to pass legislation and there will have to be some compromise. But the Republican party will be under a lot of scrutiny, and they’ll take the majority of the blame for any economic and domestic failure. No longer will Obama have to worry about being scapegoated. For two years the American people will have an opportunity to see whatever fallacies or flaws exist with Republican ideology and experience the frustration of gridlock and incompetence in the government.
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