by Kumar David-
November 15, 2014
If Lanka’s voters elect President Mahinda Rajapaksa for a third term I guess you can say the turkeys have voted for Christmas; they are in for a battering, basting and roasting. However, my focus today is on the US Congressional poll of 4 November where a Republican wave gave it majorities in both Houses (Senate and House of Representatives) after many years. Obama’s legislative plans are dead in their track for the remaining two years of a now lame-duck term. Budgets will be deadlocked, the US will be disadvantaged in foreign interventions, and I won’t be surprised if the Tea Party lunatic fringe, though its clout has shrunk, tries to impeach Obama on trumped up charges. Unlikely, but I don’t put anything beyond the ravings of these weirdos.
