I was discussing the election results with a friend and we were both expressing hope that the Republicans put forth and fight for a legislative agenda that gives the country another path to recovery.  We both expressed concern over how Republicans have squandered opportunities in the past.  Another friend had commented on election day that he found himself voting for the candidate that irritated him least.

For me it boils down to this:  What Republicans have allowed to be done out of complacency and miscalculation Democrats have put forth as an agenda.

George Will quotes George Mason economist Don Boudreaux, who blogs at the delightful Cafe Hayek, on the progressive agenda:

"'These ideas,' Boudreaux says,'are almost exclusively about how other people should live their lives. These are ideas about how one group of people (the politically successful) should engineer everyone else's contracts, social relations, diets, habits, and even moral sentiments.' Liberalism's ideas are 'about replacing an unimaginably large multitude of diverse and competing ideas . . . with a relatively paltry set of 'Big Ideas' that are politically selected, centrally imposed, and enforced by government, not by the natural give, take and compromise of the every day interactions of millions of people."

Thanks, David.