Republican Compromise?

Now that the Republicans have won the House of Representatives, and they have a political stake in the success of the government, perhaps they will finally be willing to compromise with the Democrats. They have spent two years attempting to block the Democratic program without offering solutions of their own. But now, they might be willing to give a little to get a little. Here's hoping.

But the big story of the 2010 elections is the ridiculously wide shift of power in the House of Representatives. It implies that people who voted Democratic in 2008 voted Republican in 2010, despite the often irreconcilably divergent ideologies of the two sides. It's mind boggling how politically malleable the American electorate can be. Of course, low turnout hurt the Democrats, so this shift in allegiance doesn't account for the entire shift. But district that had a liberal Congressperson, now may have a Tea Party representative.

It's also telling that Obama was blamed for the economic difficulties which began under Bush. How the electorate believes a split Congress will solve the problems is beyond me. Perhaps the compromise that I pondered above is the only chance.