To some staunch conservatives watching President Bush relinquish the reins of power to President-elect Barack Obama, a few too many ardent liberals are now crashing the gates.I'm paraphrasing no one in particular, when I ask, "Who Gives A Shit?"
I'd like President-elect Obama to reach across the aisle as much as possible to try and devise a bipartisan government that works for the American people. My only demand would be that the other side genuinely be interested in developing solutions, rather than finding just another wedge issue with which they can beat Democrats about the head.
At the same time, Obama and the Democrats won the 2008 elections decisively. I don't want to hear any more about America being a center-right country. The right didn't win squat -- in fact, they got the [electoral] asses handed to them.
My advice to Republicans is to reach out to Obama and find if there's any interest in working together. If that's not possible, I think you just need to shut up and sit down for a few months while the Obama-Biden team install their Administration.
They won, and you lost.
No one cares whether you're happy with their choices. If McCain had won, he'd be doing the same thing -- picking people who share his world vision.
Elections are contests, and in all contests, there are winners and losers.
Quoting New York Senator William Learned Marcy in 1831, "to the victor, go the spoils."
