IT'S A BRAND BLUE DAY
We've been waiting two long years to say that. It is nice.
At some point last night (or rather 5:00 this morning - clever chiniqua took today off work) while I was refreshing the vote counts county by county in Montana and making charts plotting the results (oh yes I did) it finally hit me. I mean it really hit me.
WE DID IT.
WE TOOK BOTH HOUSES.
WE CONTROL CONGRESS!!
WE DID IT!
Do you know what this means? It means that we are NOT sliding irrevocably towards fascism. The Permanent Republican Majority lasted about as long as the Thousand Year Reich.
The AP has called Montana for Tester. MSNBC just called for Tester. Webb has a big enough lead to survive a recount. When we lose by 1,000 votes and demand a recount they tell us the People Have Spoken and we're crybabies who should step aside. Time for them to take their own advice. Time for Tester and Webb to declare victory. Allen and Burns are LOSERS and we should call them that. Send lawyers. guns and money. We will not let them steal those two away.
Speaker Pelosi. Leader Reid. Ways and Means Chair Rangel. Justice Chair Conyers. It's morning in America. It's a brand blue motherfucking day.
At some point last night (or rather 5:00 this morning - clever chiniqua took today off work) while I was refreshing the vote counts county by county in Montana and making charts plotting the results (oh yes I did) it finally hit me. I mean it really hit me.
WE DID IT.
WE TOOK BOTH HOUSES.
WE CONTROL CONGRESS!!
WE DID IT!
Do you know what this means? It means that we are NOT sliding irrevocably towards fascism. The Permanent Republican Majority lasted about as long as the Thousand Year Reich.
The AP has called Montana for Tester. MSNBC just called for Tester. Webb has a big enough lead to survive a recount. When we lose by 1,000 votes and demand a recount they tell us the People Have Spoken and we're crybabies who should step aside. Time for them to take their own advice. Time for Tester and Webb to declare victory. Allen and Burns are LOSERS and we should call them that. Send lawyers. guns and money. We will not let them steal those two away.
Speaker Pelosi. Leader Reid. Ways and Means Chair Rangel. Justice Chair Conyers. It's morning in America. It's a brand blue motherfucking day.
posted by chiniqua at 12:37 PM
2 Comments:
Tis a great day indeed, but I'm still worried about the slide toward fascism. The victories are wonderful, but they come for the wrong reasons: horny homophobes, incompetent sec of defense, high gas prices, etc. Many of the ousted republicans were moderates; many of the elected democrats would have looked an awful lot like republicans 12 years ago. Moreover, the use of REASON seems like a quaint and obsolete archaism , and nobody on the American political scene seems to care about internationalism. I'm all for the celebrating and the single malt scotch --actually, bourbon is my beverage-- but let's keep our guard up all the same.
You know Anon., I totally agree with you. One only needs to be reminded that it was a Democratically controlled Senate taht confirmed Clarence Thomas to remember that it's not all so easy.
More than anything, we've staunched the bleeding. There's still a long way to go. I'm watching to see if they try to repeal the Military Commissions Act or any of the provisions of the Patriot Act. A girl can dream, right?
However, I do think that the decline of the Republican Moderate will ultimately bite them in the ass. Was planning a whole entry on it one of these days.
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