I chose to turn my TV on a few minutes ago, and just to see what they were saying turned to MSNBC.
Right now, they are talking race and how it effected the elections, and that the Progressive Agenda is very popular with Americans but that the Democrats didn't talk about it enough.
I have to say that I'm not surprised by what they are saying.
I haven't looked at Fox this morning, but I would hazard to guess that they are saying how the voters are in love with the Republicans.
To me, the election was about two things: President Obama and his historical failures (all of them both foreign and domestic), and; the gridlock that was caused by the Democratic controlled Senate. The average American is not stupid, and understood that Harry Reid refused to allow over 300 bills from the Republican controlled House of Representatives to even be brought to the floor for debate, much less a vote. They understand that, even though the Democrats blamed the GOP for the gridlock (and still are this morning BTW), it was the Democrat leadership that forced their agenda through and stifled the GOP at ever turn.
Now, the GOP made some
huge mistakes, like listening to anything Ted Cruz said including shutting down the government over ObamaCare when it was obvious they didn't have any Democrat support to change a dang thing about ObamaCare, and harping on private social issues like abortion and anything anti-gay. Those were and still are issues that will kill the GOP in the public opinion sphere, with the exception, maybe now that they have the Senate, of making changes to ObamaCare.
The GOP needs to understand that they have a mandate on very few issues. ObamaCare, job stimulating legislation, economic issues as a whole and regulatory overreach by many of the Executive Branch Departments (USEPA, NLRB, etc.), are what they DO have a mandate to work on. Social issues? Not so much, other than to get the costs of social programs under control.
I look forward to seeing what Paul Ryan (
Chairman of the US House of Representatives Committee on the Budget) does in the next few months, and what his counterpart in the new Senate (probably Jeff Sessions from Alabama) comes up with as well.