It's a Good Day to be Michael Graham

Michael Graham said he was glad to be with Imus this morning, but given his Party’s strong performance last night, chances are Graham, a Boston-based radio host on WTKK 96.9FM, would have been punch-drunk just about anywhere.
 
In all fairness, Graham, a Tea Party guy, was realistic today. “It would have been very, very nice to see some additional pickups around the country,” he said. “I was never hoping for Christine O’Donnell and her magic broom to fly into Washington.”
 
He was hoping, however, to send Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid packing in Nevada, which did not occur. “It would have been delicious,” he said, sadly.
 
On the whole, “it was a great night for people who want to stop Obama,” Graham said, and quoted writer P.J. O’Rourke as having the best line of the campaign season: “This was not an election, it was a restraining order.”
 
Following their gain of around 65 seats in the House, Republicans, in Graham’s view, “now have the tools to get more information out about what the heck is really going on.” For example, Republicans will control the House committees, affording them the power to issue subpoenas and launch investigations.
 
“Everything that happened last night goes back to President Obama; he delivered this,” Graham said, and pointed out that several states that were “blue” in 2008—like New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Ohio—turned “red” yesterday.
 
His home state, however, remains firmly Democratic, a disappointment to Graham. “Massachusetts is the land of insanity,” he declared. “Which is what they used to say about South Carolina back in the day: too small for a republic, too large for an insane asylum.”
 
People were merely responding to policies that didn’t work, Graham said. “If the stimulus package had worked, and unemployment was going the right way, it would be a different outcome today,” he noted. “But for the past four months we’ve lost more jobs than we’ve gotten in the United States, and this is after we spent the trillion dollars.”
 
The insane people, he posited, are not those on the front lines of the Tea Party, wearing freaky masks and silly hats, but rather those who voted for the status quo, like in Massachusetts. How Obama will proceed under these circumstances is anybody’s guess, but Graham thinks he’ll do what he does best: tell people what they want to hear.
 
“The love affair between Barack Obama and Barack Obama will go down as one of the greatest lover affairs of the ages,” Graham said, then explained that Americans simply want policies to work.
 
The political landscape “didn’t get turned around because Americans got programmed by the Halliburton mind-meld machine, and now they’re all Tea Party Conservatives,” he said. “It turned around because we tried something, didn’t work, it sucked, we’ll try something else.”
 
Sounds eerily similar to the policy for guests on Imus in the Morning.
 
-Julie Kanfer