After the Election: Gridlock?

I remember well when in 1994 Newt Gingrich led the Senate as a Republican. However, then he shut down funding to many programs like the National Parks, so they were not open much during parts of 1995. For me, this turned out very fortuitous because I was able to get married in the Chapel at Yosemite National Park, stay at the Yosemite Lodge with my wife and wedding party and even stay 2 nights at the Ahwahnee Hotel and have my Wedding Reception at the Ahwahnee Hotel as well. Because everyone canceled their reservations thinking the park would continue to be closed. Instead it opened only for a week or two and we got married during the week or two it opened up again by being intuitive enough to plan it and create it.

However, the other side of this was when we got to the Big Island of Hawaii with a fly and drive from Honolulu where we stayed at the Sheraton at Waikiki Beach, we couldn't go to:

Kilauea Volcano, Hawai`i

because the National Park was closed. So we experienced both sides of the Closed National Parks problem during this time.

The Republican Party paid a very big price for the Gridlock in Congress because almost nothing important was accomplished during this time and the American people, fed up with this re-elected President Clinton because of it. It is 50% or more likely that this sort of thing will happen again with President Obama. However, the world is not as happy a place as it was then. Since it is a lot more like the 1930s than the 1990s now it is in the end almost anyone's guess what actually will happen in 2012.