american party
a while ago i was thinking we need a new political party. tell the truth i was thinking of a centrist american party. sheehs. think of the political clout such a party could wield. right now a center leaning district sorta flip flops between a liberal republican or a conservative democrat. neither can ever acquire any congressional seniority. and hence influence. yet their votes are critical for getting things passed for either party. anywho. there does seem to be a new political party taking shape. but it's not in the middle. it's on the far right. which puts the republican party in kind of an interesting position. it can lurch to the right and absorb (or be hijacked by) the tea party. or it can tell the loonies to stfu and move itself to the middle. which would mean that the "new" political party representing middle america is the republican party. which just makes me kinda blink blink.