Tea-dious Tsunami ?

Can you feel the excitement ? I know I can. The Republicans, boosted by voters from the tea-dium party movement, have gained more than enough seats to control the House in the next session, and the Senate is still within reach. The guys who have spent roughly two years milling around on the sidelines, pausing just long enough to shout profanity or throw rotten garbage onto the field, have been given the car keys again. This time they promise not to drive full speed into the ditch, and American voters, always suckers for a good TV ad, fell for it again.

The tea-dious partiers, aka the clan with the plan, want some tax cuts, lots of deregulation, some more tax cuts, and a huge reduction in the federal deficit, maybe a trillion dollars or so. Oh, and did I mention some tax cuts ? Since tax INCREASES are out, the spending cuts will have to be monsters to get the budget balanced. Eventually, programs that conservatives like will get the axe, then the proverbial shit will be in the proverbial fan.

Roughly half of American voters are semi-literate primates, and their idea of a joke this year is to elect people who have no government experience and hate the government to run the government. Now that's a swell concept.

As retirees, mrs. bee and I could really benefit from cost-of-living increases in our pensions, but those are totally out of the question until the economy is booming again and system trust fund coffers are flush with ready cash. I therefore have a vested interest in seeing a robust economy with full employment, and that's exactly what the Republicans have promised. I've lived through a lot of years of Republican government and most of them sucked, but maybe they'll get it right this time. Or maybe they were able to con a lot of gullible voters who have a 30-second attention span.