If we’ve finally learned to cool our heels and drop the fingers, conservatives are beginning to realize that we have sucked it up this decade. But one thing is certain. The accumulation of frustration that has been building up since ’07 was pretty clear in the loud of chorus of boos during John’s concession speech on the night of the fourth. But wait. Are we quick to say who they were booing? Sure, the mention of ‘The One’ probably triggered an instinctive backlash of muddled curse words and vocal boos and hisses. Yet, who’s to say there weren’t those in the crowd who were just a teensy peeved at McCain? A pretty common diagnosis of our failure was an unpopular incumbent, a messianic challenger, yada yada yada. They say Obama’s timing was right; that he would have won regardless our chosen candidate. But oh no! It was the BUSH factor! It must have been the President’s fault! But… has anyone bothered to realize that it was in McCain’s full capacity to kick Georgie out of the picture?

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There is small wonder at what President-elect Obama’s administration will be like if Nancy Pelosi is any indication at all to the future of legislative power. Saved from the loss of a filibuster, Congressional Republicans now face the daunting task of achieving the improbable. Even with the impossible having been wiped off the plate, the GOP will be hard pressed to preserve even the smallest facets of American conservatism. Speaker Pelosi has shown no hesitance whatsoever to pushing a two-part stimulus through Congress before the 111th reconvenes in 2009. While this has and will remain a slap in the face of conservatives, the President-elect has made clear his “economic priorities” over the well-hidden rhetorical promises made in Grant Park on the night of the 4th.

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