Lol at the people saying "stop Obama's agenda" as if that means anything. Do me a favor and go over to politifact and check out Obama's "agenda" all you like. There you'll see what he has done and what he hasn't.
The only 4 big items on the Obama agenda were as follows.
Health care reform
Pulling out of the war
Cap and Trade
Shutting down Guantanamo
He's accomplished one out of the 4. One had to compromise on, the cap and trade, and the other two are stuff even Repubs have been promising for quite some time. Are you trying to tell me now that the Repubs have office they do everything in their power now to stop his agenda at ending the war and shutting down Guantanamo? LOL!
Healthcare reform is not going anywhere any time soon. It may get tweaked a bit, but it is not going anywhere. I hope it gets tweaked though. Not sure if it will get tweaked the way I like it though.
Again, the point I was making was several fold.
1) the Repubs had a chance to win both House and Senate. Many polls at one point showed that they would. Instead they got control of only the House.
2) The Dems had 256 seats before the election and the Repubs as of now only have 239. Big swing yes, but it doesn't top what the Dems had previously.
3) This whole crap about stopping the agenda and putting things in deadlock is also crap. There was deadlock before with the Dems in control as the Repubs filibustered everything. And the things Obama has left to do that he promised are not things the Repubs are going to stop at this point. It's just more rhetoric and smoke being blown up our asses by the collective shills.
Now the state controls in various places is a big deal to some extent if you are waving around your red or blue flag. Personally it doesn't matter to me because I live in one state only so I only care about my state in that regards. As far as other places, I don't live in those states so I really don't care about how they go about their business. The only thing that affects me is the Federal and Texas government. Speaking of Texas, my biggest gripe is the Texas State of Education Board. Mercer the creationist nut is still on it. Some Repubs being elected here in Texas I was happy over. Some not so much like Mercer.