Not to bust up a good tirade...
But the Republicans in Congress were also the winners of elections.
The Democrats tried to shove through a long-planned raid on the Federal cookie jar, the vast majority of which was a liberal wish list and not anything that would stimulate economic growth. They got called on it.
I know who Shrum is, and it's not hard to guess why, after all these years, he's really pissed right now. And given a leftist's typical ideas on economics, it's not surprising he uses the TVA as a shining example of how the world should work.