The Media Spin Begins

Yesterday, the country issued a wholesale rejection of the Obama agenda. The GOP made gains in the House unprecedented in modern times. They are at least the biggest gains since 80 years ago, and, if more of the still undecided seats go Republican, this could be the biggest gain in the last 116 years. Republicans also picked up at least twice the average number of Senate seats for a midterm with two more possibilities to be decided. the GOP holds the governors seat in eight of the ten biggest states and in at least 31 total states. State legislative seats moved towards the GOP at an amazing rate. In short, it was an outstanding victory for the Republicans.

So what is it that the media is now discussing? Last night on CNN in the middle of the Democrats' debacle, the enormous group of commentators spent a long time pondering what they perceived to be the certain bloodbath resulting from infighting within the Republican Party. That's right, the bloodbath will be among Republicans, not Democrats. And why is that? The answer according to the commentators is that the Tea Party candidates who ran for the GOP in Delawar and Nevada lost, so there would be a civil war among Republicans.

To put it mildly, I think that these folks are either deluded or that they have such a low view of the American people that they think Americans will actully accept what they are saying. Republicans win an historic and smashing victory but they are the ones who will have a bloodbath. The Democrats who lost a whole generation of office holders including committee chairmen, governors, and senators will just soldier on as if nothing had happened, but the Republicans will engage in recrimination and infighting.

I realize that CNN had a group of unknown commentators who probably outnumbered their audience, but they should still have hired people who understand reality. After all, this is supposed to be news, not fantasy.

Of course, as I write this President Obama is about to come to a news conference to announce how partisanship must end and how we all must work together. That is another person who does not understand reality. For months after the 2008 election we were told by Obama and the Obamacrats that elections have consequences and that they won. Well guess what, Mr. President? Elections have consequences and we won. If you want to end partisanship, that is fine. I suggest, however, that you need to offer real compromise if we are to get anywhere. Much of that compromise will involve ending your push for bigger government with more control over people's lives. You will need to end the anti-business, anti-job programs that you have been pushing and move towards things that will actually encourage the growth of the private sector that you hate. Once again, elections have consequences and we won.