You Want Ice Cream With That Pie?

The Republicans won a tremendous victory last night in the Mid-term Elections. My deepest sympathy goes out to them. What do I mean by that? The Democrats won two years ago with a broad mandate or so they thought, and a coalition they were unable to hold together. Now the Republicans will have to try to hold together an even more unwieldy coalition. What coalition did the Democrats have, you may ask? The Democratic party is a coalition to begin with and then they were joined by Independents and disaffected Republicans. Now the Republicans have the right and moderate wings of their own party, the Tea Party, Independents and disaffected Democrats. Good luck with that group. Brings to mind herding cats. Anyone think they can keep all their promises and make everyone happy? Like herding twice as many cats. It's not that I want them to fail, it's that I don't think anybody could succeed under the circumstances. First off, a lot of people don't really know what it is they do want. Only that they don't want the Democrats and Obama's agenda in particular, but I don't think they really want the Republican's agenda or the Tea Party's agenda either. All people want is high paying jobs for everyone, lower taxes, win both wars or get out without any danger of terrorist attacks to America, stop buying foreign oil, drill more and dig more coal, stop pollution in their own backyards, pay off our debts, stop mortgage foreclosures, eliminate Obama care, make sure their own health care insurance is reasonably priced, a strong defense but lower defense spending, better schools in their neighborhoods, but lower education spending, no new immigration, no more illegals and make those already here disappear and a host of other things including Mom's apple pie. Don't people realize Mom stopped baking years ago and buys her pies at the super market?