does anyone know anything about nuance??

There are far too many people out there who are either crowing or crying that 2010 is going to be just like 1994.  A Democrat president gets elected, people "supposedly" don't agree with his policies the 1st year, Republicans make a bunch of promises and sweep in as the majority party in Congress a year after the President assumes office.  Even that small summary of events tells very little of what happened in 1994 and ignores the fact that Clinton's much-criticized tax increase of 1993 helped and contributed to the nation's longest period of prosperity ever! 

So, now we have a Republican senator in Massachusetts.  & they are predicting that there will now be no healthcare.  I wouldn't go that far.  First, there is still momentum for healthcare reform albeit not as much as before.  Secondly, reform can be passed by 51 votes in the Senate, not necessarily 60.  They can still pass things that cannot be filibustered.  I honestly don't know if healthcare will be passed, but either way, it's not certain whether it will pass or fail. 

Thirdly, last night isn't November, 2010.  We don't know how much the people reject or accept Obama's policies until Election Night of 2010.  If your in the playoffs and your team is up by 10 points after the 1st quarter, you are pretty stupid if you are "100% sure" of victory at the end of the game. 

Here's the most important part of the post.  Conservatives and even some liberals are talking about 2009 as being a "failure" for Obama.  What a load of nonsense!  Obama passed a stimulus package that has helped in ways too numerous to ennumerate here, he passed a budget that finally uses intelligence after 8 yrs. of fiscal insanity and willfully pushing the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer, he passed credit card reform.  But now all that means nothing to some people.

Obama didn't accomplish all that he set out to do in 2009.  He wouldn't consider what happened last night to be good news.  But, please people, why not use a little bit of nuance??!?  Why can't people accept that good things as well as bad things are happening in this nation today?  We can't say if Obama is a success or a failure for a long time.  Further, 1994 didn't mean that  the Contract w/ America became law.  People and the people that elected them weren't that crazy about a Republican program either. 

Also, what happened last night confirms my view that journalists who last year predicting the Republicans demise were very foolish. I might be able to partially agree with the idea that the nation is more liberal now than it was in 2000, but that is not yet clear.  There were articles that really predicted the demise of the Republican party.  The fact is that anytime there is a businessman complaining about too much government regulation or too much bureaucracy, there's going to be a future for  Republicans.