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What do you know?  Less than 12 hours after Reid narrowly won reelection in a tough race against Sharon Angle, and he was declaring his openness to compromise on changes to ObamaCare.  Looks like the whole “pass the bill to find out what’s in it” deal extended even to those who voted for the bill. 

I remember once when I was a kid and my mom went on a big health-food kick, and she made some awful vegetarian spaghetti sauce out of homemade faux meat.  After taking one look and being completely unable to discern what it was made of, I asked what was in it.  With the desperate smile that only moms know how to pull off, she said, “Just try it!”  That night we had delivery pizza for dinner.  My mom included.

That’s the difference between a family and a Democrat controlled Congress and Senate.  My mom wasn’t able to get me to try her cottage cheese “ground beef” (Seriously, cottage cheese!  WTF?) so she tossed out the pet project she’d worked so hard on because even she didn’t really think it looked appetizing.  Pelosi, on the other hand, knew that she wouldn’t be subjected to the consequences of ObamaCare, so what did it matter if no one else wanted it?  It was crammed down our throats anyway, and although we’re not totally rid of her, we were finally able to kick her out of the kitchen.

The continued Democrat control of the Senate offers Reid a challenge that other remaining Democrats won’t face.  The Senate Majority Leader won’t be able to hide behind Mama Pelosi’s skirt anymore, he’s going to be front-and-center answering for the policies that ensured a pink slip for so many of his colleagues. 

That “Dirty Harry” is already tucking his tail between his legs when his own party still holds veto power really speaks to the innate Beta-maleness of the Democrats.  Take a look at the crowd from the Restoring Comedy Central Ratings Rally… a bunch of hipster couples who probably share the same pair of 28-waist black skinny jeans, who eagerly sign up for petitions to ban HFCS while sipping a Red Bull and vodka, the kind who brag about no one has heard of the bands they listen to, while mocking people who shop at Wal-Mart and ironically spending $200 on t-shirts that are made to look faded.  The kid on the playground getting beat up for wearing suspenders non-ironically is less Beta than that!

In contrast, have you seen the Alpha dogs set to run the GOP?  Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Adam Kinzinger… be still my beating heart!  And I’m going to make a killing selling “I’ve Got a Boner for John Boehner” shirts at GOPround events, lemmetellya.

Our HBIC of a President isn’t taking the same route as Reid, unfortunately.  Between putting his presidential seal on the Barry Soetoro & Jonathan Leibowitz Comedy Hour and his completely un-Clintonian post-election speech, he might as well have put his chances of a second term in a convertible and sent it for a leisurely drive through Dallas.  He’s tried compromise before, he says.  When?  By having both imported and domestic at the Beer Summit?  

Obama and compromise in the same sentence—what is that, a joke?  Admittedly, it’s funnier than his “R for reverse, D for drive” joke, I’ll give him that much.  I’m not quite sure I understood the punchline on his reiterating that Americans don’t want to Andrea Yates our kids in a bathtub full of debt and then catching AF1 to go take a trip set to cost us millions per day.  Must be the kind of hipster irony that us Beck rally types aren’t smart enough to get.

What those of us lacking DRD4 do get is that the Democrats got bent over like a hot hotel maid when Kobe Bryant is in town.  My prediction of a 57/7 pickup seems to be pretty close to what the final results may end up at, and other than Patty-freaking-Murray holding my beloved Dino Rossi to his third close WA state race, I’m really excited about how the night turned out. 

Our historic gains—and they were “ours”, as every stripe of Libertarian and Conservative candidates were riding the wave Tuesday night—still kept us from offering up the kind of two-house control that made 1996 possible for Clinton.  As I’ve said before, The Obammunist’s legislative style won’t be hampered as much by the election as one might hope.  Still, patriots should be optimistic. 

Democrats in only the bluest of states were able to survive the Donkey Bloodbath of ’10 and that is a clear message that the mistake of the 52%ers was not a mandate to socialize America.  We are not alone in our anger of the direction we’re heading; we’ve known that since the first Tea Party.  And now, our real “enemies” know it too.