Post-Election Performance Anxiety

You’ve seen the commercials; you know, the embarrassing ones that pop up just when you’ve let your 10-year-old daughter stay up late for a movie. The ad sets a scene where a slinky blonde, brunette, or other lies on a bed amidst mounds of soft pillows, her smoldering gaze beckoning her man to join her. A seductive lavender scent fills the air, the lights are dimmed, and all systems are go. Her date reads the signals, makes his move, and then? Then nothing; crunch time, everything’s on the line, and he’s a flop. That’s exactly what happened in the 2014 elections. Republican candidates whispered sweet nothings in the voter’s ears, promised satisfaction, fulfillment, even ecstasy if the voters would just let them in on the action.  The people, having been screwed six ways to Sunday by Democrats without so much as a $20 bill left on the nightstand, gave Republicans their shot. In 2014 the people elected a Republican Senate and House, the...(Read Full Article)