My Hopes for #111
I give the Democrats about a 20% chance of holding a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate (Alaska-90%, Minnesota-50%, and Georgia-40%). Regardless of whether they have the super majority or not, these are my wishes for the next Congress.
I wish for the Democrats to take the moral high ground that the Republicans have lacked over the past number of years. I hope that the Democrats reach out to the Republicans and work to get things done. I realize that there will be a number of Republicans unwilling to compromise or work together. But as the leaders of Congress you must offer a hand, work together to bring about bills regarding energy, the economy, and health care.
Regarding energy, believe it or not there is a lot of common ground here on both sides of the aisle, and a President who has this as a top priority. This is the time in history to get things done, and make advances for future generations. Almost all Americans want energy independence and know that realistically a compromised approach from both sides is the only effective way of completing that. DO NOT let low gas prices allow us to fall back and be complacent. Yes we must drill, but that can only carry us for so long, all that is is essentially taking out a loan. This doesn’t solve the problem but it might stem the flow for a little while. We need new sources of energy, and not only to power our cars, but to heat our homes and businesses also. We need more efficient and cleaner cars, we need cleaner energy for our homes. Wind energy cannot alone power our homes, and sorry while natural gas is a nice alternative to what we have it isn’t perfectly clean and it is still a fossil fuel, therefore not a permanent solution. Nukular Nuclear, solar, geothermal, and clean coal (also a fossil fuel) all must be looked at and the best choices developed into working solutions.
The economy at this moment has lots of minds on both sides thinking the same way. The window is narrow, once the economy starts turning around I feel that Republicans and Democrats will part ways regarding the economy. So get the things done while you can. While there is no possible way to completely protect the economy from disasters like this, we need to at least try to prevent it and make sure we learn our lessons.
Health care has been set to the back-burner due to the economy, which is too bad. This is of major importance to millions of Americans, and directly affects their lives unlike energy and even to some extent the economy. This is the hardest subject to get agreement on both sides of the aisle. But with a majority in Congress I am sure the Democrats can come out with something that Republicans can deal with. They all have parents, and family members are negatively affected by our current Health care policy.
As stated in another article the pendulum ALWAYS swings back so treat the Republicans right, they might do the same when the ball comes swinging, but the Democrats will have a case to shorten the swing when they are on the bad side.
(2 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
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