The Dems Have Spoken
Democrats picked up 28 seats in the House in yesterday's election. Louisville's own Third District Congressional representative, Anne Northup, lost her 10-year seat to publisher John Yarmuth (disclosure: I received payment years ago for several items published in the paper Yarmuth founded).
The Senate looks to be a toss-up. We may end up with a 50-50 split. The final tally is pending based on the results of close votes in Montana and Virginia.
The 28-seat change in the House is considerable. If I'm not mistaken, the shift gives Democrats control of the House for the first time in a dozen years.
Yarmuth ran partly on a universal health insurance platform. As a small business owner, I'm familiar with the high costs of health care employers assume. I look forward to enjoying the benefits of Yarmuth's new universal health care system (and the cost savings). If he could get that in place by Q2, that'd be awesome.
Here are the other items on my wish list (feel free to add your own as comments) in no particular order:
1. An end to negative campaigning.
2. Gas prices capped at two dollars per gallon.
3. Tax breaks and simplified filing for small businesses with less than 12 employees (the amount of paperwork I must complete as the owner of two small companies is simply staggering).
4. The ability to purchase cable channels a la carte (I want ESPN and ESPN2, that's it - not 70+ other channels I'm forced to purchase just to watch college football).
5. An effective Middle East exit strategy.
6. Someone to stop millions of our tax dollars from being used to encourage 19-29 year-olds to abstain from premarital relations.
7. All candidates (winners and losers) to remove all campaign signs before the weekend.
UPDATE: It appears both Senate seats in Montana and Virginia went to Democrats, thereby completing the sweep and giving the party control of both chambers.
The Senate looks to be a toss-up. We may end up with a 50-50 split. The final tally is pending based on the results of close votes in Montana and Virginia.
The 28-seat change in the House is considerable. If I'm not mistaken, the shift gives Democrats control of the House for the first time in a dozen years.
Yarmuth ran partly on a universal health insurance platform. As a small business owner, I'm familiar with the high costs of health care employers assume. I look forward to enjoying the benefits of Yarmuth's new universal health care system (and the cost savings). If he could get that in place by Q2, that'd be awesome.
Here are the other items on my wish list (feel free to add your own as comments) in no particular order:
1. An end to negative campaigning.
2. Gas prices capped at two dollars per gallon.
3. Tax breaks and simplified filing for small businesses with less than 12 employees (the amount of paperwork I must complete as the owner of two small companies is simply staggering).
4. The ability to purchase cable channels a la carte (I want ESPN and ESPN2, that's it - not 70+ other channels I'm forced to purchase just to watch college football).
5. An effective Middle East exit strategy.
6. Someone to stop millions of our tax dollars from being used to encourage 19-29 year-olds to abstain from premarital relations.
7. All candidates (winners and losers) to remove all campaign signs before the weekend.
UPDATE: It appears both Senate seats in Montana and Virginia went to Democrats, thereby completing the sweep and giving the party control of both chambers.
posted by Erik Eckel at 11:16 AM
2 Comments:
Sure, we can give universal health care, you ready to pay even more taxes? Also, if you happened to see Yarmuth's victory speech then you know better to count on much for him in his likely short stay in Washington.
I, too, doubt Yarmuth will be around for two terms. And no, I don't wish to pay more taxes.
Other than legalizing drugs, raising payroll taxes, posting a new tax on SUVs and implementing universal health care, I don't know any of Yarmuth's other plans.
But I'll bet he does none of the above.
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