It's the night before the election. The DC pundits are all united in that the republicans are going to sweep away the democratic majority in the house, although they may fall short in the senate. I've been writing that I think that it will be less than what the prognosticators are saying, and I'm still sticking with that. Rothenberg said on NPR this evening that it was going to be perhaps 55 or perhaps 60 or more seats. OK, that's a high water mark.

But geez, the democrats should not be in this position. They had everything going their way. The republicans arguments - that the stimulus didn't work, that the health care bill was a tax on working people, and that democrats were out to do away with basic freedoms - could have been so easily refuted and the democrats just seemed befuddled over how to deal with these frivilous claims. And how much were these big time democratic party officials being paid compared to the average garbage men? Come on, let's have some accountability!

Crossroads, the Rove PAC, hammered the democrats all across the country on the so-called "$600 billion" increase in medicare taxes. I didn't hear one democrat come up with a coherent and effective response to that. Yet, it isn't because those responses aren't there - it's just because they didn't do it. Why?

The same is true of "cap and trade." There is a great argument that this is the pathway to new jobs. If you have people sitting around doing nothing, you want to put them to work doing something that is going to benefit society. If you put regulations in place requiring a certain energy production, and that kind of production isn't present now, then it is going to take new people to do it - jobs! Voila!

But disavowing it isn't going to accomplish anything. So what are we going to do - go back to the polluting jobs and have the weather extremes just keep getting worse? We already can't afford dealing with what is happening with winds, floods, droughts, etc. Yet, the democrats are running from the truth. They can't deal with it. Really sad.

That said, I'm going to go out and vote mostly for democrats. As one of my older friends said, "I'm going to hold my nose and vote." Yeah. I agree. The House of Representatives goes up for challenge every two years. Even if the democrats hold 47 seats in the senate, it's enough to block bad initiatives by the republicans. There will be more gridlock no matter how the election comes out. Business likes that, so anticipate a big bounce from the stock market for a day or two. Then it's back to reality - that we just put in the folks who drove us in the ditch into the driver's seat. Ouch!