Disappointing even if not unexpected

Good morning, America. Welcome to the new era of a Democratic-controlled House of Representatives. The new speaker and her caucus will have the first subpeonas going out within 30 days of her installation into her new office. There will be additional measures attempting to roll back those tax cuts you got a few years ago (or rather, a lack of measures looking to extend them) so be prepared to see your net pay drop.

Within 60 days there will be a formal motion to bring articles of impeachment against the administration.

Measures will be introduced to withdraw funding for the military to continue operations in the war on terror on a specific date. The terrorists will gather themselves together as that date approaches and those of us who weren’t alive for it will get to see for ourselves what it looked like when the last American helo slipped from the roof of the embassy in South Vietnam those many years ago. The body counts for that one ran into the millions. And the Viet Cong didn’t try to come over here to finish the job.

Finally, the Dems in Congress will wrap themselves around the axle of trying to “get Bush” so tightly that very little – if anything – else will be done.

This is the will of the majority of Americans and, as an American, I defer to that decision. This is the direction more of my fellow citizens wanted to pursue than didn’t. I do not have to like it but I do accept it. Therefore, let me offer my congratulations to the winners of the various races around the country.

Some of them still aren’t completed, of course, and one of the biggies is right here in Virginia. According to the SBE, Webb is winning the Senate seat from Allen by a margin of about 8000 votes, 49.58% to 49.22% with 99.75% of precincts reporting. With a race that close it’s entirely possible that the absentee ballots will reverse the lead again and Allen will come out on top. We’ll follow our state’s procedures to figure that out and we should know within a day or so. Then the recount will start, of course, and that could take a few more days.

Unlike my Democratic colleagues who have, for 2 years, called me stupid and declared that they hate me, I do not hold them in similar regard. Some of my dearest friends out here are Dems and they are most assuredly not stupid. And I don’t hate them. They bought into a perspective, I believe, that was warped by a biased media and they let themselves be misguided by a group of people who just refused to actually tell them what they were going to do in their governance, aside from retreat in Iraq. But they’re adults and this was their call. As Americans, we now will experience the consequences of that call, good or ill, together.

More later. I’m travelling for business so I’ll be off the wire a bit today.