Reply #8: Here: some cheery pablum from one of the early disenchanted

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It is what it is. Cringing about the forthcoming bloodbath may very well be quite unwarranted: we may not take the drubbing predicted by so many. The administration's party almost always loses seats in the first mid-term; it's the way it is.

Still, the polls aren't so very clear, and keening over the loss that hasn't happened yet isn't much help.

As for our President and his Administration, from one who had major problems waaaaay back in the primaries with this bunch, chill a bit and keep it in perspective. Perhaps I'm anesthetized by crabby dismissal, but their policies and actions could have been a lot worse.

Yeah, I catch myself both ways at times, and there I was again this week listening on the radio as our President spoke very evenly about religion and was a fine voice of reason, until, of course, it was all ruined by his reminder that we are "one nation under god". Sigh. But what the hell? They are what they are, and some things are wandering in the right direction. Don't assign any sarcasm to this missive; I'm dead serious: I'm just a little farther down the pike of disenchantment, so some of the appeasement and flaccid policies don't disillusion me so much.

I'll still show up and vote, and I'll vote Dem.