The parallels to the 1994 Congressional elections are surfacing. The anger over the attempt at socialized government health care by the Democrat controlled House of Representatives and President Clinton was a rallying point, as was the committed campaign by Newt Gingrich and other Republicans to end the 40 consecutive years of Democrat control in the House. Today, we see with ever increasing certainty that the sun is setting on this attempt at Congressional rule by the Republicans.

What started out so impressively with Congressional reform and budget restraint from 1995 to 2000, budget surpluses of over $350 billion, has regressed to the dark jungle of lightweight lobbyist reform, ineffective budgetary constraint, and deep helpings of pork. The elephant has gotten chubby, slow, and can't remember how it got up the hill.

The "People's House" will be different in 2007. I don't look forward to it as much as I did in 1995. Revolutions have their time and sometimes must reload and make their way out of the thick brush to form again in the clearing light of consensus, forward thinking ideals, and regain the realization that serving our nation in Washington D.C. is their goal, not getting re-elected.

The elephant will get up the hill again, but not until it has lost its largeness and becomes a majority of citizen-legislators again.


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