The Recent Election Improves Nothing.

In the NY Times this morning there's an editorial that suggests the Republicans aren't ready to lead. They don't have an agenda the article states. Really? Does anyone think they haven't had an agenda for the last two years? Does anyone think that has changed? Does anyone think the Democrats were ready to lead on 2008? Or that they're ready to lead now? The answer to the first two questions is that the Republicans only wanted and still want to get rid of Obama, and the second two answers is that the Democrats were not and are not ready to lead. So where does that leave the American people? Two more years of likely deadlock. Little improvement in Unemployment, no improvement in income ratio between the rich and the rest of the country, or perhaps an even more lopsided gulf between the two. The recession is over for the rich. It is unlikely to be over for the rest of America for the foreseeable future. How can that be? The goal of the real conservative movement is for more opportunities for the rich to get richer. For that to happen, there must be fewer opportunities for the rest of us to get ahead. That's because there are a limited number of financial opportunities available that can be manipulated. On the other hand, the goal of the real liberal movement is..... Ya know what? The real Liberals don't exist but if the did, they still wouldn't have a single unifying goal. It's because the Liberal faction is very fragmented.
There's no real consensus. How in the world can such a fragmented group ever find itself in a position to govern? It can't. For proof just look at the last two years. The things they accomplished, they couldn't agree on which is why it took so long to get health care passed and why it's so poorly constructed. It took too many compromises. The Republicans would have passed a bill is short order. It would have undergone few changes from the original. So what's up for the next two years? More of the last two years like I said. Haven't you been listening? Problem is, while our government will do little, if we are not to fall farther behind the rest of the world, there's a lot to be done. It really is time to wake up