Democratic Congressional Leaders Face the Jobless Jungle

This political cartoon reflects the outcome of the 2010 elections nationwide with the Democratic Congress members being flushed down the political toilet. 

In the November, 2010 elections, I registered Democrat and I was pleased that my Gubernatorial vote was fruitful with the election of Jerry Brown in California. However, it was disappointing to discover that the election showed a major shift to the right in Congress. Presently, many Democratic politicians face unemployment, and knew so mid election. This reminds me of when I was at Loretto High School, and we knew that our school was closing down, and all of the teachers scrambled to find jobs before they knew that they would be unemployed at the end of the year and the school's closure. Some teachers had connections at other institutions around Sacramento, including Jesuit High School, St. Francis High School, and Christian Brothers High School. I remember distinctly how hard it was for them knowing that they were going to be unemployed and they were worrying about their families, and would often come to teach, and show how upset they were, and they were competing  with each other for jobs elsewhere. The whole thing was a mess.

       The situation in Congress reminds me of this, because I feel that the Democrats must have been worried in their final stretch of employment, and probably did not work efficiently knowing that they could be easily replaced in the coming weeks. They scrambled to try and scoop up jobs. One man, Johnathan Lipman, who was a communications director for Democratic Representative Melissa bean of Illinois, was searching for a job whilst holding his newborn child in mid-November, knowing what the election results would hold. Lipman actually was hired as the communications director for the Senator of New Hampshire. This just goes to show that whether you are a teacher, or a political official, jobs are not permanent, and when unemployment in out of your control, it is important to try to seize opportunity. There are still teachers for Loretto that are unemployed, and this saddens me greatly. Like these teachers, there are many unemployed Democrats greatly effected by the Republican trend in the November elections.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/us/politics/12dems.html?ref=politics