You cannot begin to imagine how much I'm laughing inwardly right now. I say Inwardly, because I happen to be sick right now with a hacking cough and can't really talk much -- if at all.
Why am I laughing to myself, you ask? Because the U.S. House of Representatives has gone back to Democratic control after twelve years, and the Senate may follow suit depending on how the recount in Virginia goes. As I type, Democrat Jim Webb -- a former U.S. Navy Secretary -- leads over Republican incumbent George Allen by a razor-thin margin. Webb appears to have roughly 8,000 more votes than Allen, but this could end up in court ultimately, with the winner being determined as late as December.
This victory has Bush shitting his pants so badly, he had Donald Rumsfeld step down as Secretary of Defense. Rumsfeld's temporary replacement is a former CIA director, and depending on how the Senate goes confirmation hearings could get downright nasty -- and not necessarily in Bush's favor.
Ohio elected its first Democratic governor in sixteen years. We elected our first Democrat to the U.S. Senate since Howard Metzenbaum and John Glenn retired. We elected a Democratic attorney general and a Democratic state secretary. And we managed to pass an increase in the minimum wage!
Ohio has gone very much Blue, with the state legislature still under Republican control. Nevertheless, the majority party now has fewer seats. And we have a bit more power now to affect the apportionment board in drawing up legislative districts.
Republican Joe LIEberman, unfortunately, won his re-election bid. As you are probably aware, he lost the Democratic primary to challenger Ned Lamont back in August. The ever-selfish LIEberman then stayed in the race as an "independent." Independent my scarred ass! The guy is a fucking rubber stamp for George W. Bush, and if Virginia's U.S. Senate seat does end up in Democratic hands you can bet dollars to doughnuts LIEberman will caucus with the GOP just so he can fuck over the party he turned his back on one more time.
But you've gotta laugh at the Shrub right now; he's shitting his pants on television trying to spin the Democratic victory and make thinly-veiled demands that they continue to submit to his will. Yet he had to dump Rumsfeld, to whom he promised job security for the duration of his regime, just so he can cover his own ass by appearing to make a change at the Pentagon. In fact, however, the only real change will be the face and the name of the guy fucking over the Armed Forces. Bush is desperate, and the stench of fear hangs over him like a pall. Hence Rumsfeld's resignation. Not even one of The Big Four is safe from Bush's games of save-ass
Democrats won back power after twelve long, gruelling years. They won, despite what I'm sure is rampant GOP electoral fraud, because Americans have had enough of the corruption, deception, criminality and treason coming out of Congress and the White House. We were sick of our wages remaining stagnant while the very wealthy got even wealthier. We were sick of deficit-spending as far as the eye can see. We were sick of a Congress that was nothing more than a rubber stamp for the far right.
And so we turned out in droves, We the People of the United States of America. We turned out in enough numbers to counter the Republican Party's electoral fraud. We told Katherine Harris and J. Kenneth Blackwell that election-rigging does not get you cushy seats in the Senate or a governor's mansion. We told rubber-stamping liar Mike DeWine his non-existent services are no longer required, or desired.
I am laughing my sick ass off, because for the first time in nearly six years I have hope again for the future of our country. And because I am having so much fun watching the treasonous little Shrub squirm as he contemplates what will happen to him once the official investigations and indictments and impeachment proceedings begin.
Why am I laughing to myself, you ask? Because the U.S. House of Representatives has gone back to Democratic control after twelve years, and the Senate may follow suit depending on how the recount in Virginia goes. As I type, Democrat Jim Webb -- a former U.S. Navy Secretary -- leads over Republican incumbent George Allen by a razor-thin margin. Webb appears to have roughly 8,000 more votes than Allen, but this could end up in court ultimately, with the winner being determined as late as December.
This victory has Bush shitting his pants so badly, he had Donald Rumsfeld step down as Secretary of Defense. Rumsfeld's temporary replacement is a former CIA director, and depending on how the Senate goes confirmation hearings could get downright nasty -- and not necessarily in Bush's favor.
Ohio elected its first Democratic governor in sixteen years. We elected our first Democrat to the U.S. Senate since Howard Metzenbaum and John Glenn retired. We elected a Democratic attorney general and a Democratic state secretary. And we managed to pass an increase in the minimum wage!
Ohio has gone very much Blue, with the state legislature still under Republican control. Nevertheless, the majority party now has fewer seats. And we have a bit more power now to affect the apportionment board in drawing up legislative districts.
Republican Joe LIEberman, unfortunately, won his re-election bid. As you are probably aware, he lost the Democratic primary to challenger Ned Lamont back in August. The ever-selfish LIEberman then stayed in the race as an "independent." Independent my scarred ass! The guy is a fucking rubber stamp for George W. Bush, and if Virginia's U.S. Senate seat does end up in Democratic hands you can bet dollars to doughnuts LIEberman will caucus with the GOP just so he can fuck over the party he turned his back on one more time.
But you've gotta laugh at the Shrub right now; he's shitting his pants on television trying to spin the Democratic victory and make thinly-veiled demands that they continue to submit to his will. Yet he had to dump Rumsfeld, to whom he promised job security for the duration of his regime, just so he can cover his own ass by appearing to make a change at the Pentagon. In fact, however, the only real change will be the face and the name of the guy fucking over the Armed Forces. Bush is desperate, and the stench of fear hangs over him like a pall. Hence Rumsfeld's resignation. Not even one of The Big Four is safe from Bush's games of save-ass
Democrats won back power after twelve long, gruelling years. They won, despite what I'm sure is rampant GOP electoral fraud, because Americans have had enough of the corruption, deception, criminality and treason coming out of Congress and the White House. We were sick of our wages remaining stagnant while the very wealthy got even wealthier. We were sick of deficit-spending as far as the eye can see. We were sick of a Congress that was nothing more than a rubber stamp for the far right.
And so we turned out in droves, We the People of the United States of America. We turned out in enough numbers to counter the Republican Party's electoral fraud. We told Katherine Harris and J. Kenneth Blackwell that election-rigging does not get you cushy seats in the Senate or a governor's mansion. We told rubber-stamping liar Mike DeWine his non-existent services are no longer required, or desired.
I am laughing my sick ass off, because for the first time in nearly six years I have hope again for the future of our country. And because I am having so much fun watching the treasonous little Shrub squirm as he contemplates what will happen to him once the official investigations and indictments and impeachment proceedings begin.