Post mortem

Looks like the Party of Not-Insane has won the House and might very well win the Senate as well. Macaca George looks to be going to a defeat, and as Stranger points out over at Blah3 we should just do the Bush-in-2000 thing and declare victory and wait for the losing losers to whine about a recount later on.

From the small perspective here in South Carolina, it was a mix of bad and good. Sure, we got Congress back, but same-sex marriage bills were defeated all over the country including here (on the same day Britney Spears displayed the respect for the "holy eternal sanctified" institution we non-gays hold), and Arizona has declared English the official language of the state. We got stem cell research and South Dakota rejected that idiot abortion ban, but medical marijuana went down.

I'm not holding my breath, but hopefully we'll now see the Dems reject the inevitable whining from the Repugs about "the need for bipartisanship". The House is where impeachment proceedings start, and god knows there's more than enough reason to carry it out.

And I see Rumsfeld is going home to have more time with the family. Bye, Rummy. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

There's still a lot to do, and if it doesn't get done the wingnuts will be more than glad to blame the Dems for it all -- after all, these are the people who think Bill Clinton caused 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq quagmire. Not as if they won't throw the new Congress under the bus wheels if they think it's to their advantage.

And there's always the Repug's Secret Santa out there ready to mail some presents to uppity Dems. So this could very well be just as nasty as the last six years, only in a different way.

Hopefully not, but as I said, I'm not holding my breath.

So Saddam is guilty

HUSSEIN SENTENCED TO DEATH
Court rules ex-dictator should hang

Um, whee!, or something.

...never mind there were those of us who knew he was guilty of crimes against humanity years ago, back before the Repugs woke up and realized what a thug they had backed against Iran.



The relationship between Iraq and the United States remained unhindered until the day Iraq invaded Kuwait. On October 2, 1989, President George H.W. Bush signed secret National Security Directive 26, which begins, “Access to Persian Gulf oil and the security of key friendly states in the area are vital to U.S. national security.”[9]

With respect to Iraq, the directive stated, "Normal relations between the United States and Iraq would serve our longer term interests and promote stability in both the Persian Gulf and the Middle East." -- source

Besides, I thought it was supposed to have been bin Laden who we were to get "dead or alive". But I suppose in Bushworld it's much better to have half a loaf than none, even when the other loaf half is still waiting to kill more Americans.



"What? What!? We got SOMEONE alive, and now he'll be DEAD! Huh huh huh! Good enough! Now leave me alone, I gotta go play World of Warcraft."

Just a bit of sarcasm

Thank god for John Kerry showing such admirable spine in this age of political bullying. Thank god he dug in his heels, stood by his principles and said "no pasaran!" to the fascist morons.

I'm JUST SO PROUD of the Democrats right now.