This is my first post since last year.  I hope to contribute once again in weeks and months ahead.

It’s a few days after the “Blue Wave” and I am compelled to say it wasn’t a wave as much as a regular tidal change.  While some may be quite discouraged, I don’t see much potential for disaster—though I do see much for sheer harassment. What is written below may seem self-evident, but bears emphasis.

First, Congress was already well on its way to mediocrity in terms of substantive legislation.  Conservatives have wanted immigration overhaul, tax revision, and other new programs enacted.  This was just not going to happen, regardless of the party in control.  Now that neither party is in control, the same result will emerge.  Let’s face it.  A Republican congress is just as paralyzed by its political hobgoblins as a Democratic congress—perhaps more so.

Second, when it comes to confirming Federal public officials, the Senate has complete power here.  Can I foresee additional Supreme Court justices?  Yes.  The Senate will confirm them.  What about new administration officials?  Again, the Senate will do the president’s bidding for the most part.

Regarding bureaucratic and regulatory reform, the president will still have a free hand to do what he has the political will to do.  He can still issue executive orders, rescind and replace regulations and veto any legislation.  In relation to the latter, there would likely be no super-majority to override the veto.

Besides all this, God is sovereign.  Sovereignty means (theologically) that not one event or person or living creature escapes His absolute and effective will for them all, whether that is slow or fast, now or in the future.  I will refuse to despair and will continue to pursue my calling as God gives strength.  So I invite our readers to embrace that sovereignty and faithfully pursue your own callings to God’s glory.