Democracy has spoken!

We have a new president and it seems the conservative right lost its mind. Chill out my Republican brothers. Obama winning the White House does not mean America is doomed. Remember the federal bureaucracy can't be changed over night, even if he has a Democratic House and Senate. If you are mad that he is giving the middle class a tax cut, don't forget that Bush gave the same tax cut to the upper class. It's the middle man's turn. If you were happy that those making $250,000 plus a year got a tax break, don't get offended that the middle class will get the tax break now. That would be hypocritical.

If there is anything to worry about, it's his approach to foreign policy. Don't forget that in foreign policy, the president has an enormous amount of power. He can get more done internationally than he can domestically because of his status as the "sole organ in foreign affairs". Domestically he must deal with Congress and the courts, even if using an executive order to enact policy. However, internationally his executive agreements carry the same weight as a treaty but it requires no Congressional oversight. Furthermore, only one executive order, of the nearly 6,000 that exist, has ever been ignore (double check if you want). Obama has no international experience and that is a reason to worry. Let's just hope he surrounds himself with knowledgeable people to deal with international affairs.

So please people, stop panicking. If the Republican Party had not ruined the economy, mismanaged the war and polarized the nation between conservatives and nonconservatives, they would have retained the White House. As a registered Republican myself, it's frustrating to see that the party failed the nation and is mostly responsible for the bad situation America is in. The Republican Party needs to reconsider this strategy of only catering to the upper class and Bible freaks. There are a lot of us Americans who don't fall into either one of those categories.