Sit back and watch the temper tantrums of the sandbox party

To The Daily Sun,

It's really really November out there, isn't it? Wind, rain, mixed precipitation and all. Well, we made it through another midterm election in which somewhere around 18 percent of Americans elect the winners. But, hey, we can think of our nearly stillborn midterms as part of our ingenious system of checks and balances that also gave us the veto and the executive order.

Don Ewing and Russ Wiles have joined the screaming rabble of those that think the GOP has a mandate after a 35 percent turnout. That is funny. I think that the 18 percent of Americans who elected senators and representatives to a Congress with a 12 percent approval rate are going to be very very disappointed. And everyone's dog knows that the House seats are expertly gerrymandered for the GOP.

So, conservatives, don't expect much different from the past few years of getting nothing done. Obama will use his pen just as the Constitution outlines. Vetoes and executive orders are required when a Congress won't do its job. Remember, this same GOP bunch said Obama did not have a mandate after the 2012 elections so this is going to be a lot of fun watching the hissy fits and temper tantrums of the sandbox party running up to the 2016 election.

James Veverka

Tilton