What 41 Republican Senators Means to Me

Apparently I'm completely out of touch. This doesn't disturb me as much as it may have in the past, but I'll get to that later.

First I have to answer the question, "How do I know that I'm out of touch?" Well, I'm being told by news sites and blogs all over the Internet that a Republican is likely to win Ted Kennedy's Senate seat. This event, which is happening in liberal Massachusetts, is seen as a harbinger of the utter destruction of health insurance reform (or not, how would I know?) and the Democratic Party as a governing entity. I thought those people in Massachusetts were communists of the first order, and yet here we are, poised to watch them return the Republican Party to their 41-vote super-obstructionist non-majority.

But, as I mentioned earlier, I'm not too worried about being this far out of touch because the return of Republicans to the 41-vote super-obstructionist non-majority means that nothing will get done at all. So there's nothing to be in touch with anyway. Go outside. Take in a movie. Go fix a bridge by yourself. Whatever. Just don't expect the government to do anything.