The Democrats wanted power because they were mad. They wanted to flatten our President, and they wanted to blame everyone else for the troubles we all face in America. They’re still mad…only now it’s because they didn’t get their way, and have only shame and disgrace to show for their efforts.

They have lots of ’splainin’ to do in front of their donors as well, but I’ll leave the tar and feathers they richly deserve to those who will be called upon again next year to put them BACK in office…I wouldn’t want to be in their shoes, that’s for sure. I can’t think of a time I was MORE happy about NOT being a Democrat.

Having squandered whatever political capital they might have had, the Democrats have spent a full year blackmailing all of us over forcing a change in Iraq policy. They’ve held up nearly every major spending bill, trying to leverage their MoveOn and Code Pink contingencies against the will of the majority of Americans. Most of the rest of us (Democrats and Republicans alike) prefer to see Congress attending to matters of a more fundamental nature; the matters that affect the every day lives of “We the People.”

We wanted Congress to fix (or at least address) the problems inherent in our current bloated and ineffective areas of energy, transportation, education, immigration, social security and medicaid, and the remaining entitlement programs. They failed to do so.

We wanted them to clean up our house, hold spending to some modicum of reality, be sensible on taxation, and do something about this silly and nonsensical earmarks business. They failed to do so.

These are the things that involve running the Peoples’ business…these things are what affect us directly, and these are what help define us as a nation.

The Democrats chose to define us…singly…through the prism that is Iraq, and in doing so find themselves empty-handed with no place to go…but down. We are a nation at war, but we are also continuing to live our lives while our brave men and women are fighting it.

The energy spent making our efforts in Iraq out to be the ONLY thing going on with America has forced them into their own little wilderness and the only thing of significance they’ve managed to accomplish during all of their first year in the majority is an omnibus spending bill filled with pork and policy changes the implications of which we’ll not fully realize until WELL into next year…and crammed down our throats solely because of their big hurry to go on vacation.

As bad as the Republicans have been these last few years in the majority, and as much as they might have earned their defeat, at least they attended to the Peoples’ business.

The Democrats continue to show how little they actually learned from their defeat(s) back in the 90’s, and appear destined to continue repeating the same mistakes over and over and over again…all at our collective expense. They ran on empty promises they never kept, they spent our money like teenagers with their first credit card (or tried to, at least), and they let everyone of us down equally. They need to go, and they need to go now. They have done nothing so well as they have proven they’re not ready to lead a nation.

It’s time to put grown-ups back in charge.