The Tea Party is just one big, drawn-out tantrum thrown by spoiled children in regards to the results of the last President election which, of course, was “stolen by ACORN.” Conservatives have made the claim- “You guys spent eight years kicking around Bush, now its you turn.” Now its “our turn?” What sort of petulance is that? The fact of the matter is, Americans, for the most part, are gracious losers. If it seems we’ve gotten a fair shake in the deal but come out short, that’s fine. In 2000, the candidate who received the most votes for President somehow didn’t become President. And that’s not me “not getting over it” or “Gore didn’t win Tennessee” or whatever. That’s a simple statement of fact. The candidate with the most votes was denied the White House. A group of nine unelected jurists- actually, let’s make that five- determined the outcome of that election. Simply a fact. How could that possibly be a “fair shake.” It can’t. George W. Bush got handed the White House on the most dubious of possibilities, and preceded to run hard to the right as if he was given a mandate, as if the actual results of the election did not even matter. So, of course we gave him shit. He proved that he deserved all the shit we gave him as well.

Now, here is Obama, who received a plurality of the votes, a decisively large margin of victory in the electoral college, and the other side hasn’t stopped braying about it since November 6th, 2008. The Republicans can’t sign on to anything- not one thing- that Obama supports, because they will be attacked from within their own party and be cannibalized as a result. Perhaps its time to move past the primary system, leave the ballot as wide open as possible with multiple candidates from each party on the general election. Because what this country needs is centrists, and not ideologues. What the current situation is is that we have a centrist in the White House up against a determined pack of ideologues, who would even reject legislation they sponsored themselves if it even looked like the President might be acceptable to it. Over the next twelve months, there is going to be no plausibly rationale, middle-of-the-ground legislation presented by the Republicans, because in all honesty, they don’t want Obama signing something they pass, otherwise they might get cast in a similar light as Charlie Crist who, as a Governor know s first-hand the fiscal plight his state- as pretty much all states- are in, and gave the President a quick hug for the fiscal lifeline tossed to Florida through the stimulus. That hug is now being used by his opponent in the Douchebag, I mean Republican primary. I’ve posted something similar before, but recently my constituional law professor said, “We reward cowardly behavior, and punish principled behavior by politicians A politician can take a courageous, principled stance, and voters will show them the door.” That’s a fact, jack.

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