"We have no intention of allowing our great achievements to be rolled back,"

As I sit here on a crisp fall morning contemplating the results of the previous week's elections, I cannot help but believe that the rift that has existed between democrats and republicans has only grown deeper and wider.. (and apparently it will continue to do so).

Not that I would have expected Tuesday's results to generate any significant healing between the two parties, but I would like to have thought that at least some democrats could see the writing on the wall and begin to respond to some degree (at the least) to the people's wishes as they were expressed by the votes.

But I haven't seen that. If anything, I have witnessed a retrenching of battle lines by the democrats and that began with the president's speech on Wednesday. Anyone watching that speech and listening to the president, could see immediately that the man refused to accept the real reasons for the democrat losses. And more importantly, the man was and remains in complete denial that Tuesdays' vote was a rebuke of his presidency and the leadership of congress over the last two years.

His speech to the American people said that while he felt their anger, he believed that their anger began and ended with their perceptions of the economy. What was said in so many words, was that he believed that the economy was the only reason that the democrats had failed so dismally at the ballot boxes on Tuesday. He also later alluded to his belief that he simply hadn't done his job of getting his message through to the American people, who obviously didn't understand his policies or what he was trying to accomplish.

Something many pundits and blogs have subsequently voiced as their collective opinions, that the president's perception is that the American people are just too stupid to know what is good for them and that he failed to adequately dupe them into further political complacency by failing to properly explain his positions and policy initiatives.

Then, forty eight hours after Tuesday's elections, we had speaker Pelosi coming forward to announce that having lost the majority in the house, she was not going to quietly step aside. She in fact intends to run for minority leader and she has emphatically stated: "We have no intention of allowing our great achievements to be rolled back."

So there you have it, what has changed as it concerns the ultra left and their perceptions of how to govern this country or their opinions of the people's concerns for that matter. Not a 'tinker's dam' in my opinion.

The other factor that has been noted since the election, is that the 'uber left' has begun to attack any and all in the democrat party, who haven't leaped at the opportunity to get behind Pelosi for her new leadership position. Many of these sycophants are openly lauding the losses of blue dog democrats last Tuesday (who they blame for the loss of the house) and openly vowing to purge the remaining so called moderate democrats from the party completely by 2012.

As I sit and listen to the Sunday morning pundits, many are saying that republicans are more than happy to see Pelosi installed as the new minority leader. I suspect the reasoning behind that, is that there is a perceived need for a democratic boogey man for the republicans over the next two years, to keep the republican momentum flowing so to speak. And who better to fill that bill, than the antithesis of conservatism moving into the second highest profile position in congress.

Many felt that the republicans had completely self destructed after the 2006 midterms. And that was further manifest by the 2008 general election and the rise of Fabian socialism in the form of Barack Obama. But the people have not been asleep the last two years and they have been watching and keeping score. And that reality was visited on the democrats with a vengeance last Tuesday. As it was to a lesser degree visited on a number of RINO's like Charlie Crist of Florida.

Now as I watch, I see a democrat party self destructing and imploding in upon itself. And what hasn't collapsed in the democrat party since Tuesday is in in the cross hairs of the party elite to be excised and removed as if some cancer. The Nancy Pelosi wing of the democrat party, is reacting like a pack of lip dripping hyenas, having been chased away from a kill by lions. They aren't leaving, they are circling and hissing and looking for the next opportunity of weakness to be exhibited by their enemies.

Certainly the job isn't over for the republicans. There remains the turning back and reversing of the socialist programs such as Obama care passed by the now defunct democrat majority congress, but those reversals cannot be accomplished until Americans once again control their government completely and Obama has been removed from office. And that will take the next general election to accomplish.

In the mean time, the best that can be hoped for, is that the new congress can rein in and stop Obama and Pelosi's socialist stampede of America and keep it from progressing further. And that will mean significant battles in the house and senate to come. And we can count on Pelosi and Reid and the rest railing and wailing and writhing like the maniacal banshees that they are. As madam Pelosi has already stated,"We have no intention of allowing our great achievements to be rolled back."

Therefore, John Boehner and the republican majority have their work cut out for them. They are all that stands between Obama and Pelosi and the people now and the people expect them to stop and staunch the liberal lunacy of the last four years in congress and the white house.

Let's pray they can.