Don't expect much at all from Congress over the next 2 years. (#2112)

With the dismal turnout of voters this last election, too many Republicans were elected and with that we are most certainly in for a lot of stalemates with our Democratic President. So anything that must be done will have to be done with a minimum of compromise since Republicans are only interested creating more wealth for the wealthy. So anything else that needs doing must be done with some other entity not our Congress. The states must now step up and deliver as much as they can since the federal government will likely offer little. The democratically led states will have to continue to find revenues within their own borders for their economies to flourish. While the republican led states have shown that they will continue to apply austerity to their budgets further reducing core community standards. Over the next few years we are going to see divergent economies within our country and quality of life will take a hit in the "red" states while the "blue" states will continue to flourish. The austerity versus the Keynesian model will be glaring in their results as already evidenced by comparing blue state California's positive turnaround with the negative turn red states like Kansas and others are currently experiencing. At the end of this next 2 years it will be painfully obvious to even fair minded Republicans that their economic model of austerity and tax cuts for the wealthy was the wrong way to go but in the meantime, the majority of voters who continue to support them will feel more and more of the pain of their choice now and into the near future. The sad fact is that we didn't need to do this to ourselves but since we did we are about to find out why objective considerations are far more important than subjective hoped for illusions.