Senator Norm Coleman’s defeat at the hands of the Minnesota Supreme Court has handed the Democrats a filibuster proof United States Senate. This hopefully brings an end to Republican legislative policies that have severely hamstrung the nation’s business. Considering all that we have been through since Gore v. Bush, we can repeat the old saying of Civil War combat veterans, “I saw the elephant.”
We have experienced something so powerful and devastating to our lives over the last 8 years that it should have felt no-less like civil war. Our country has been torn apart by extreme right-wing agendas, and we may never be the same. It still frightens me to think that America wanted such a grotesque beast trampling over all its noble beliefs…
I saw the elephant… clearly.
The ascent of Al Franken to the United States Senate now becomes the Democrat’s double edged sword. It provides Democrats with an immense opportunity to pursue all of their ideals and dreams for the nation. Democrats can now ignore the GOP chorus of moral hypocrisies, as well as Republican cries on behalf of their corporate health insurance company sponsors, and do the full-time bidding of the American people.
Democrats are now free to tackle issues such as global warming and stem cell research without the unfounded denials and false alarms of Republican Senators James Inhofe and Pat Roberstson getting in the way. They can add oversight to American banking industries, and continue exposing politicians who enable the Ken Lays and the Angelo Mozilos and the Bernard Madoffs of Republican lore.
The consequences of greed, evidenced from the Reagan Revolution up until now, can only lead sensible Americans to say with certainty, “We unmistakably saw the elephant.”
Finally, Democrats can officially stop blaming Republicans for stonewalling everything, and push their agenda through both houses of Congress. Needless to say, this is what Americans voted for this past November. This is why there is a President Obama in the White House, and a filibuster proof Democratic Congress… With Coleman out and Franken in, we expect real changes in our government.
How appropriate it is for a Democratic comedian to become the 60th Senate Democrat, ending the Republican circus that presided over the worst economic crisis since World War II. How refreshing to know that our faith and trust was rewarded with new hope, and renewed power.
But… how disappointed I will be if I see a revived Republican elephant wreaking havoc on the nation, and the world as a result of Democratic majority stagnation...
G.L.M.
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