{"id":317851,"date":"2022-12-14T08:01:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T16:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/?p=317851"},"modified":"2022-12-14T08:01:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T16:01:08","slug":"twas-the-month-after-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/twas-the-month-after-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Twas the month after midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"

'<\/span>Twas the month after midterms, and all through the nation, the air resounded with Republican lamentations. Their mournful bellows echoed across the land, accompanied by the gnashing of teeth and wringing of hands.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Whatever despaired them so, to leave their spirits so trashed? It\u2019s because, you see, their hopes had been dashed. For two years, in hubris they had remained, certain that their electoral success was preordained.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

About the President they sneered and spit. \u201cHe\u2019s senile,\u201d they said, \u201cHe\u2019s out of it.\u201d Biden already has one foot in the grave; he\u2019s an anchor around the Dems, so heavy they can\u2019t be saved. We don\u2019t need to hide our nut cases in a cave\u201d, huffed the GOP, \u201dWe\u2019re assured of a mighty red wave.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But on 8 November the votes were cast, and the American people had the say that was last. They chose to reject the Republicans\u2019 perfidy, and in so doing, they bucked the tides of history. The GOP had coveted the Senate to flip. But instead, their scary red wave turned out to be a sad, little drip.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Republicans had hoped for a dominating majority, but their bilious plans collided with voters\u2019 priorities. Turns out Americans aren\u2019t as interested in a party that traffics mainly in hate. They prefer a Congress that can actually legislate.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Because Biden, while not exactly youthful, has proven to be both effective and truthful. The President\u2019s legislative successes are numerous, making his critics\u2019 whining almost humorous. While Republicans agitated about culture war craziness, their own senators and representatives evinced nothing but laziness.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Biden and the Dems said, \u201cSure, go ahead and make fun. We\u2019ll be over here getting work done.\u201d It seems the calm and competent gentleman behind those aviators, really does know how to work with legislators.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Americans take voting seriously; it\u2019s not comedy. That\u2019s why Democrats found candidates of high character and quality. Republicans, on the other hand, seemed to have made recruiting lunatics their priority.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A TV doctor named Oz, was dismissed by voters for just cause. Calling vegetables \u201ccrudites\u201d turned into a joke, and Pennsylvanians found phony the way he spoke. So when asked on election day, voters said, \u201cNo thanks, we\u2019ll take the guy who just had a stroke.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In Arizona, the GOP offered voters a Lake called Kari. The electorate, it seems, found her repulsive and scary. After she lost, she perpetuated her desperate election denial, screeching into the camera, spewing dyspeptic bile. Because Lake just can\u2019t let her defeat go, she slunk off to the only place that would have her: Mar-A-Lago.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A candidate in Georgia, Herschel Walker, proved to be an unintelligible talker. Words tumble from his mouth in a befuddling fall, making no sense or meaning at all. Republicans thought this problem they could forestall, because Herschel once carried a Georgia football. But voters can discern rank hypocrisy, and Walker\u2019s was plain for all to see. The candidate would shout, \u201cAbortion can never be good,\u201d when for years, we now know, he was practically a chauffeur to Planned Parenthood.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And voters as well took heed, of the radical Supreme Court\u2019s misdeeds. To the Court\u2019s ill-begotten Dobbs decision, Americans responded clearly, with pointed derision. The Republican justices in that majority, did plainly abuse their constitutional authority. American women used the midterms to let loose their voice: \u201cNot so fast, Republicans, you don\u2019t get to mess with our reproductive choice!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But behind all the Republicans\u2019 current loss, looms the one thing they\u2019re unwilling to toss: it is, of course, their very own boss. In Florida, from his gauche and gaudy palace, he continues to belch with unrelenting malice. In the evening, morning or afternoon, he always hovers, the blubbery, orange parade float balloon. With the timbre of an off-key, flatulent bassoon, he insists on proving he remains a buffoon.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>The January 6 seditionists were patriots,\u201d he rants; \u201cReinstall me as king, and pardons to them all, I\u2019ll grant! Suspend the Constitution,\u201d he cries, \u201cthe last election was tainted by lies! Ignore the facts, don\u2019t be a rationalist. I alone can make the government safe for white nationalists.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>In the House, we\u2019ll have McCarthy; he\u2019ll help us keep out all those immigrants swarthy. And we\u2019ll continue to limit voting in \u201cthose\u201d neighborhoods. Did you see how long were the lines in which they stood? Soon, we won\u2019t even need to launder our own white hoods.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>I\u2019m not a racist,\u201d whines the ex-Prez. Yet he entertains for dinner Kanye and Nick Fuentes. Trump refuses to denounce them, even as Kanye praises Hitler. And for the rest of the GOP? That remark barely measures a \u201c1\u201d on the scale of Richter. But for Republicans now, anti-semitism is de riguer. Perhaps that will give Jared and Ivanka something to atone for on Yom Kippur.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But happily for America, our voters this year, made plain their preference for truth over fear. It\u2019s indeed a joyful holiday season, when America chooses not lies, but reason. With our democracy threatening to flounder, Americans affirmed the faith of our Founders.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So this December, let\u2019s imagine George Washington\u2019s voice as he speaks to the nation, his tone clear through the static. \u201cGood holidays to all, and to all a good new year Democratic!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

– Sean Quintal writes on behalf of the La Mesa Foothills Democratic Club<\/i><\/span>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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