Posted on 12/29/2010 9:48:30 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
Nothing much happened in 2010. Oh, I know there was a lot of frothing and screaming. There was outrage aplenty. There was an election. Wars were fought. Humongous pieces of legislation were passed, but — with the exception of health care reform — few broke new ground and many, like financial reform, were compromised and massaged to the point of lugubrious semirelevance. Even the enactment of health care reform, a true American milestone, was kicked down the road to 2013. Indeed, compared with earth-shattering 2008, or even the forces marshaled in 2009 to arrest an economic cataclysm — the bailouts and stimulus package, which really did do their respective jobs — 2010 will be regarded by historians, I fearlessly predict, as something of a neon hologram.
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Who still buys this crap?
The election will be considered the start of an earth-shaking event, if the Tea Party is able to expand and be even more influential in future elections.
If not, it will be just a flash in the pan and of no real significant import over time.
Earthquake in Haiti, Gulf oil spill, one of the biggest turnovers ever in congress, several state legislatures going from dem to repub — no biggie.
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