Who Will Obama Blame Now?

As President Obama recently observed: "I'm not on the ballot this year, but my policies are." He was correct. Last night's Republican romp was a rejection of his policies and his disastrous presidency. If this were a quarterback who had just thrown 4 interceptions in a loss, he would say, "That's on me." As it is, I'm not sure who Obama will blame for this election, which has reduced him truly to a lame duck president. Thank God for that.

I couldn't resist switching over to MSNBC intermittently to see how the mad hatters were taking this unhappy night (for them). With the exception of Rachel Maddow, the MSNBC coverage resembled, well, a Pittsburgh beer bar after a Steelers' loss to the Ravens. Chris Matthews, who not so many years ago was screaming, "Yea!" when yet another Democrat victory was announced, looked like Frank Gifford sitting on the couch in silence while Cathy Lee Gifford was blabbing away. Even for Chris, he looked pale.

Then there was that noted old political sage, Al Sharpton, sitting there trying to find something intelligent to say. Sadly for him, the subject wasn't Treyvon Martin or Michael Brown. I guess he could have said, "No justice-no peace." Then there was Ed Schultz, who was in Florida for some unexplained reason-oh yes- he was covering the governor's race between Rick Scott and the orange man- Charlie Chris. Scott won (a defeat for orange people everywhere), and Ed was madder than that quarterback who had thrown 4 interceptions-as Ed once was.

Then there was hapless Harry Reid. Here is what he had to say on losing his majority role in the Senate:

"The American people couldn't have spoken more clearly. They want Democrats and Republicans to work together."

This from the man who hasn't met a Republican with whom he would work.

But I digress.

Now that the Republicans control the House and Senate, what are they going to do now? Block Obama's left-wing judicial nominees? I hope so. Make him a lame duck? I hope so. Put the brakes on his suicidal policies? I hope so. Do something about Obamacare? I hope so.

But if that's all they can do, the reality is that the pendulum will swing back in 2-4 years. They need to show the public that they can do good things for the country. They need to demonstrate that a
smaller government is the right way to go.

They also need to keep one thing in mind: The American electorate has historically shown that it likes the idea of the House, Senate, and White House being divided for purposes of balance. And you know what that means: