It's too scary to be funny, isn't it?

Folks, for the least eight years we've had a president who looked at the world like a gigantic game of Risk, a president who has run up a ridiculous debt spending trillions overseas on the worst-planned military adventure of our nation's history- even our infrastructure has started to collapse, and a president who has treated our Constitution as nothing more than a nuisance.

Thank God the Democrats took back Congress in 2006. Honestly- thank God. I know every one of us is frustrated they haven't been able to achieve more, and I know many of us would like them to put everything else aside and impeach George W. Bush for lying us into war, but, in the end, those Democrats have done more good for this nation in the last year and a half than done in the combined 6 years prior by a government controlled by Republicans.

No, the war isn't over, but the minimum wage was increased for the first time in more than a decade. No, our troops aren't home, but those troops can come home to the new GI Bill and to a veteran's healthcare system that has seen the largest increase in history because of the Democrats in Congress.

The war in Iraq hasn't made us safer, but the Democrats have- by implementing all of the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission.

They wanted to do more- we wanted them to do more. But Republicans continue to stand with their President, they continue to vote to keep our troops in Iraq for God-knows how long, they continue to vote in lockstep preventing good domestic legislation like the Children's Health Insurance Program from being expanded to help more needed kids.

All of us lived through the same election in 2006, and all of us saw the same results: Republicans turned out on their ears all over the nation because they had become lazy, corrupt, and nothing more than lapdogs for President George W. Bush. And as George Bush's war and George Bush's polices continued to cost us in lives and treasure, those Republican leaders in Congress sat back and did nothing to stop it, nothing to respond to the bill of the people.

Americans have a funny way of forcing our elected officials to listen in the end, though...at the ballot box. So new representatives like Gabby Giffords in Arizona and Kirsten Gillibrand in Connecticut and Nancy Boyda right here in my home state of Kansas found themselves in office- and they were charged with the task of turning the page.

I think Americans now want to turn the page again- but not by going backwards (sorry Jim Ryun, Jeb Bradley and all you other Republican Re-Runs....you aren't what America wants). No, voters want to keep moving forward, and they want to keep going on the direction the Democrats have set- toward reasoned withdrawal from Iraq, toward healthcare for everyone, toward tax cuts that help regular folk and not millionaire, and toward a foreign policy that listens rather than just talks.

But, in the end, there will be people all over the country who will, for whatever reason, vote for Republicans. But, just like the video above says- if those Republicans win, their supporters will get exactly what they deserve.

*Not really.