I was delighted to see the result of the United States presidential election with the return of a Democratic president for four more years. While Democrats retained control of the Senate, today’s Tea party dominated Republicans will keep control of the House of Representatives. It’s probably a vain hope that the obstructionism of the House will moderate given the overall result.
The Founding Fathers when framing the constitution never envisaged the doctrinaire and irrational Tea Party intransigence that has crippled government and which must dismay genuine one-nation Republicans and which makes the US system of government dysfunctional. And if the problem of the ‘fiscal cliff’ approaching in January is not resolved the consequences will be bad for the until now steadily recovering US economy and the rest of us too. It’s said that politics is the art of the possible – and it is the art of skilful compromise too.
Let’s hope that reason rather than doctrine prevails.
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