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Likely House Judiciary Chairman Is an Anti-Immigration Extremist and Birther

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus11/11/2012 1:31:37 pm PST

This is not unexpected.

The GOP lost little ground in this election.

While the office of the President gets nearly all the attention, and given the (ahem) fascination with President Obama that the racists exhibits I can understand the glee of some when the gloat over the President’s re-election.

But, I notice this:

(1) Obama’s victory over Romney appears to be by a smaller margin than his victory over McCain, and likely Obama will have gotten fewer votes this time around, unlike the re-elected GWB or Clinton or Reagan, all of whom got many more votes the second time around.

(2) The GOP are still in solid control of the House and most of the Tea Party caucus were returned to office.

(3) In the Senate, the GOP lost 3 seats, but the Republicans who are now gone - Collins, Brown, and Lugar would have been 3 of the “moderate” Republicans on which a Democrat President would rely to cross the aisle on big issues like USSC nominees. Ideologically, after this election the new Senate has moved very little, even though practically the Democrats are sitting a bit more comfortably. However, the GOP retains a filibuster capable minority, and with the loss of most of the “moderate” Republicans the Senate GOP has been, essentially, ideologically purified, the very thing for which the Tea Partying right has pining.

I consider President Obama to be a lame duck. The immediate problem of the “fiscal cliff” will illustrate how much he can indeed swing legislation towards his own positions. I suspect, being so close to the election he’ll be able to get one of his top priorities.

And then that will be it for at least 2 years.

Then, in 2014 when the turnout goes down, and the young college crowd fails to turn out, the GOP will regain the few House seats they lost this time around.