With the blanket news coverage of Osama bin Laden's killing and the Royal wedding two days before that, little attention was paid to the astounding news which occurred in Canada on Monday.  As "The Wall Street Journal" wrote today, "The federal parliamentary election on Monday dramatically reshaped Canada's political landscape."  The results portend a threat to the Democrats holding on to the White House and the United States Senate next year.
 
In the WSJ's accompanying "pre-election" and "post-election" charts showing the make-up of the Canadian House of Commons, the Conservative Party, under Prime Minister Stephen Harper's leadership, increased its seats from 143 to 167 giving it a clear majority in parliament.  Canada's Liberal Party went from controlling 77 seats before the election to now controlling 34 seats.  The left-leaning New Democratic Party went from 36 seats to 102 seats.  Finally, the radical Bloc Quebecois Party lost an astounding 43 seats and is now down to only 4 seats in parliament.
 
The bottom line is that the conservatives in the Canadian parliament gained a comfortable majority in the House of Commons after promising even more fiscal responsibility.  And that has to be a bad omen for the Democrats and for Barack Obama heading into next year's presidential election.  
 
Even in a "New York Times/CBS" poll last month, some 70% of the American people say that this country "is heading in the wrong direction."  Obama's economic policies have clearly failed. The Democrat-controlled Senate has refused to vote on major commonsense pieces of legislation being passed by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to address the dire economic crisis America is facing.  
 
The Republicans in the House of Representatives have passed the "Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act" which will eliminate ObamaCare, probably the worst piece of legislation ever passed by a United States Congress.  The Democrats in the Senate have not acted on it.  The House of Representatives has passed a budget for Fiscal Year 2012 which cuts over $6 trillion in spending from Obama's budget.  The Democrats in the Senate have not even introduced a budget of their own, as they did not when they also controlled the Senate during Obama's first two years.
 
Among Republican-passed legislation in the House of Representatives this year  --  not as large as eliminating ObamaCare and passing a budget eliminating trillions of dollars from the president's budget  --  is a bill, which passed overwhelmingly (250-172,) to amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from bypassing Congress and regulating emissions of greenhouse gases to address climate change, thus greatly stifling the American economy.  Of course, the Democrat-controlled Senate has not acted upon it.  
 
It is interesting to note that the unemployment rate is now back up to an astounding 9%.  Considering that the recession has been over for two years, the economic growth rate in the United States is dismal.  Clearly, the policies implemented by Obama's Democrat-controlled Congress in his first two years of office have utterly failed. In the nation to our north, the conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper in his last budget in March, forecast a budget surplus by 2016.  Canadian voters were highly impressed and gave his party a large majority in parliament last Monday.  
 
In next year's election, the Republicans, including its presidential candidate, will be able to argue that the Democrat-controlled Senate is stone-walling all the commonsense economic growth legislation which the Republicans in the House of Representatives are passing.   Their candidates will argue that is time for the American people to give them another chance in proving that they can reestablish a Reaganesque economy in America.  Indeed, President Ronald Reagan's economic boom lasted a quarter of a century, from 1982 to 2007.  In the election next year, Republicans will ask the voters to let them do that once more.