Climbing out of the wreckage....

First, the what-is.

QuoteRepublicans control the White House, the Congress, and the balance of power in the Supreme Court, as well as both the legislature and the governorship of 24 states. The party now controls "almost everything in American governance," as The New York Times puts it.

That's in a brief story about the awful price Democrats paid for eight tortuous years under Hussein the Magnificent, Lord of the TelePrompter™. Simply lovely stuff about the number of legislatures, governorships and states these fools threw down a toilet while they supported the least competent President in American history.

The story also mentions the slender 51-48 edge in the Senate and the (less than stellar) 238-193 House dominance (which isn't that great if you figure a usual off-year-election swing of about 25-30 seats for whichever party is in power). Maybe I'm talking scare-stuff here, but 2018 looks like it will be as interesting as was this cycle, dumping the Clintonistas.

But for now at least, the Donks are hobbled. It took two big bricks slammed with great force upside that donkey's head, but at last this truculent, ignorant beast is halted and hobbled. Said, WHOA, you brute.

This same story story points to the GOP control over "more than 30 state legislatures. Three states voted to replace a Democrat governor with a Republican, and the party picked up control of the legislature and governor's mansion in Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky and New Hampshire. (Can't resist: the Show-Me State certainly did!)

QuoteRepublicans now control all 30 legislative chambers in the South for the first time in history, reports Reuters. Their dominance of the governorships is the greatest since the 1920s, and their control of the legislatures overall is the greatest in history.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/14/by-the-numbers-the-unprecedented-price-democrats-paid-under-eight-years-of-obama/

How close was this? If 120,000 more Democrats in Florida and 68,000 more Donks in Pennsylvania had bothered to go vote, instead of staying home to sulk about Bernie Sanders (or whatever the day's chief liberal cause might be), Madame Butterfly-Knife™ would now be our next President.

I guess that's what either party deserves, this cycle. Someone to vote against that stirs us out of our usual presidential lethargy and where the more of the total registered voters actually do go vote.

I'll let ya know how that Trump and Putin bromance works out....