Chuck and Buck

First you cry...

Well, no, not really. I was a little pissed at my fellow Americans this morning. What were these people thinking, making Chuck Todd look smart?

Chuck is a pretty smart guy and he knows more about the ins and outs of politics than I do so, I'll give him that. He looks like a woodchuck though. Maybe that's why I don't like him much. It can't be that he's always talking bad about the democrats because I have been around this game long enough to know that, as a talking head, he has to keep people interested and watching. It's no different than sports analysis. You've got to keep people watching. It's good for your ratings and for the companies ratings. It's like Joe Buck doing football or baseball. When the game is over, win or lose, fans of both teams will tell you that Buck favored the other team. When one team is down by 3 touchdowns in the fourth quarter with ten minutes left, but breaks out a long run, it's his job to get excited to get you excited. Sports is all about what could happen as much as what is happening. So is politics. Chuck and Buck have to keep you from changing the channel. It's that simple.

The rest of the population is a bit more complex. These people do have agendas. Thousands of them. Millions of them are idiots. You might already know this if you have been anywhere on the internet or out in public. Lot's of jerks on the roads, offices, TV, radio- everywhere. Many of them vote. And as Chuck Todd (and others) repeatedly reminded us, republicans tend to vote in mid-terms because their people push them to vote. Historically many democrats vote only in presidential races. Doesn't it seem like, well, those are the one's that count?

The mid term elections are important though because these are the clowns that actually make the laws. They also have the ability to obstruct law-making which is what they do best, of late. This congress had an 8% approval rating yet 96% of those in this race were reelected. Now, how the fuck does that happen? Well, people are stupid.

We are looking at two more years of gridlock. When the tea part swept in with all their anti-hope and anti-change, start the insanity in 2010, a lot of those weirdos were gone by '12- a presidential election cycle. Now they come back in in this off year and you can begin to see the pattern. They haven't gotten anything really done in the past six years because their goal was making Obama but a one term president. This, of course, goes on in his second term. Now they hope to ruin his legacy. That's not going to happen either. Many of these people were deeming him "the worst president since Carter!" and wanting to impeach him...moments after his first election, before he had taken the oath of office. History is not kind to assholes who *think* like that. When you make a statement like that about someone, they can't help but live up to your expectations in the little world inside your head, no matter what they do in the real world.

So, crazy people *won*. What does it mean? Not much. Tea party republicans will not carry this alleged tsunami into the White House in '16. There will be no FEMA concentration camps for democrats- "'cause that's what they were gonna do to US...." no end to taxes or open season on immigrants. Barack Obama holds the power of veto and over-riding that takes 2/3 of both houses so, probably nothing too crazy is going to get that far. Crazy people won like fans think they won when their team beat the other team. You're still not invited into the locker room to shower with the team. You just get to buy the over-priced jerseys. Buck and Chuck know that. More people should.