What Next?

Here we are, basking in the glow of a suprising triple democratic victory - and the talking heads are already picking it apart like coyotes after the kill. They claim that the new Dems are not the "Far left liberal wing" like Nancy Pelosi and Ted Kennedy. These are "Centrists", these are "moderates", these are "conservative democrats". I am floored as to why the media are making this not a democratic victory, but more a republican loss? I look at the winners in this election, and I see the faces of Americans. I see my neighbor who thought that we needed a new direction in Washington. I see my brother, who agreed that the Bush Administration's policy in Iraq was failed at best. I see my staunch Republican father who split his ticket and voted a Dem here and there. But again the pundits are barking the usual hate for us. They are offering an olive branch and use words like 'bipartisan' and 'compromise'. When the tables were turned only days ago, it was the democrats who were always "politicizing" the issue. Just like Tom Delay and the rest of the Neo-cons had to fly back in the middle of the night to save poor Terri Schiavo. Add in the Religious Right and the Randall Terry's of the world who couldn't get off the stump long enough to say the word "politicize". But it was the democrats who were on the wrong side of the issue, spun to be the party of death. Even now, with the dems in the majority of the House and Senate, and controlling 6 more Governor's mansions, somehow they haven't won. The American people chose the lesser of two evils. They didn't so much as vote for the dems as they voted against the GOP. Well, fellow countrymen, if we have learned anything at all over the past 12 years and even more over the past 3 - is that their machine is well-oiled, well funded, well manned and plenty loud. But the most important factor, the one thing that can throw a monkey wrench into their gears is a little thing called the truth. The truth is on our side. The middle class is on our side because we are what's left of that middle class. We are the voices of those who have been silenced for far too long. Whether or not the new dems in office are centrist, conservative or liberal - they are united with one goal: to save the middle class, something the GOP has tried so desperately to dissolve in order to speed up their race to the bottom line. Well, here's the new bottom line: the American People have spoken, spoken loud and true: "It is time for a change - we will give you a shot now don't screw it up". Madame Speaker, it's your turn - don't let us down.

-SF