Election in the Rear View

Two weeks gone by and the outcome of the election is starting to come into focus.

I really had hoped that there would be a significant mandate for the Tea Party and its candidates...not that there wasn't an effect...the Tea Party raised the level of change from that of a typical mid-term election to historic numbers.

Unfortunately, the real impact was a bit muted by the fact that the few truly outstanding, consistently conservative candidates mostly lost and nearly all of the hard-core statists won. Most of the changes occurred in the middle where dozens of moderate dems were defeated by dozens of moderate republicans.

The result is that Nancy Pelosi has a smaller but more cohesive leftist bloc and the republican majority is still lacking the necessary fire and steel needed for a revolutionary term.

What needs to be understood here is that the outcome of the congressional elections are nearly meaningless: no vetos can be overidden, no legislation can be passed (without compromise), there will be gridlock.

If the President was a normal politician this would be a good position for the people's sake. But, sadly, the chief executive is not a normal politician.

The fact that all the republicans can do is say no leaves the nation virtually naked in the face of the bureaucratic onslaught we are about to experience.

Obama will now begin to show his true statist colors and rule by fiat through executive orders and regulation - and the republicans can't stop him.

How do we counter this War of Federal Aggression? Two ways: through our state and local governments and by our refusal to participate in the system.