Ok, ok. A little happy dance today. Some people who used to vote repub proved themselves not quite so insane by voting, at least, against a portion of the insanity that’s been ruling America. That’s a cause to celebrate a little, no matter what happens next. I’m telling myself right now we won the Senate and in a month we will have been proven to have won the Senate, but still no matter what happens next some people who had been voting repub proved themselves not quite so insane and gave us a dem House. Some people are changing their minds. And actually if you were a fly on the wall here this morning you’d hear a couple occasoinal Whoo-whoos! slipping through our cynicism, because more than a few people gave me cause yesterday to not be quite so cynical and I’m a person who can be handed a simple good cookie and eat it and feel right with the world for the time that I’m munching on the cookie no matter how screwed up I think things are overall.
And having a bit of that good cookie this morning, I remembered, oh right, got to mail in H.o.p’s attendance record for October (Georgia demands an attendance record) and I felt somewhat a little more chipper than usual printing that out and stuffing the envelope, because a few enlightened minds had made the world a little less of a dark place. You have to realize I’m just somehow genetically inclined against things like attendance records, they make me anxious, my natural inclination is to dig in my heels to most anything hmmm well the hive mind seems to expect of me. In this respect I’m every bit like H.o.p. so I really have no call to complain about his digging in his heels and only wanting to do what means something to him because I’m no different.
People voted for minimum wage increase and that made me feel a little better about people. A lot of states said no to same-sex unions and that made me feel like they were backwards dimwits but people did vote for minimum wage increase and voted down the South Dakota abortion ban and Arizona rejected the marriage amendment. I’m a bit confused that Britney Spears getting a divorce made big headlines right up there with everything else and find it peculiar that so many people seem to really care who in the hell she’s married to…but whatever.
I’m happy that my DSL is working again today because that means I’ve got C-Span on. And I’m looking forward to watching the Bush news conference today. I mean I’m really really looking forward to watching that. I’m not interested in anyone talking “working with” Bush, like I’m hearing this morning, because I want that criminal impeached, and I’m hoping it’s just morning-after words, I want his presidential portrait pulled off the wall or supplemented on right and left with bronze plaques recording his crimes against the people and war crimes. I don’t want to listen to “working with” but I’m keeping on C-Span and will be watching Bush at 1:00 p.m.
I’m hearing now on C-Span Sen. Schumer saying there will likely be no Montana recount, that it will be Democrat in a couple of days, and he’s talking now about Virginia and that the odds are unlikely a recount there will overturn the election. (Yes!)
When Bush’s 1:00 p.m. press conference comes on the screen, I will be smiling and hissing. Bush could declare himself king for life at the press conference and I’d still be smiling because the world now knows that the majority of the American people don’t want him for king, they want to scrape the floor with him.
Schumer is saying now that Americans have made themselves heard that they want to work with Bush in a bipartisan way for solutions, and I’m thinking, “Not me, not with Bush and his cohorts”. But whatever. For the moment I’m happy with the bit of sweet cookie I’ve been given this morning.
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