The 2014 Election Disaster: What Now
Currently, we know that the Republicans will have at least 53 seats in the Senate (Louisiana will be doing a run-off), giving them a firm majority. They picked up seats in North Carolina, Colorado, Alaska, and Arkansas. Additionally, they won 15 new House seats, increasing their power in the House to 243 seats, to the Democrats’ 178.
In short, the Republicans now have majorities in both chambers of the legislature and can pass legislation at will. The only thing standing between them and passing legislation will be President Obama’s veto threat.
To further compound this, the Republicans will now have the power to appoint their politicians to powerful committee positions. The Republicans who are entering these positions (usually by raising huge amounts of money from interests involved in that committee) are wholly unqualified. For example, Jim Inhofe, a climate change denier, is going to be running the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. These new Chairmen will have the power to block bills from ever reaching the floor and will have a great deal of impact on what is even voted on (ex. good luck getting something that restricts fracking through Inhofe’s committee).
My Reaction
The average American midterm voter is, apparently, an imbecile. They just voted into power a corrupt group of extremists, lunatics, and fools, who belong to a party that exists to roll back the social progress of the 20th Century. These fools have condemned our country to a terrible few years and may have laid the groundwork for another great recession.
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Apparently I know a lot of them! 
