Well, well, well.
What a beautiful sight to come home to. Now I know how the Red Sox fans felt when they beat the Yankees in the ALCS in '04. We never beat these fuckers, not in an election anyway (as I mentioned previously, we always get our way eventually, of course). But this - this was as close to complete dominance as you can get. Let's go to the Senate first.
The Senate is tied 98-98, with two races still too close to call (those races, as I predicted in my personal blog, are Virginia and Montana). The Democrats came into tonight needing to win 12 of 13 "key races" - races that were expected to be close that would decide Senate control. 7 were Republican-held seats, or potential pick-ups: Montana, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Ohio, Tennessee, and Missouri. 6 were Democratic-held seats, or potential losses: Maryland, New York (although I have no idea how they thought Hillary Clinton could possibly lose), New Jersey, Michigan, Minnesota, and Washington. If the Democrats held their own down and stole 6 Repub seats, the Senate is theirs.
The Democrats did hold all six seats. Cardin (Maryland), Clinton, Menendez (New Jersey), Stabenow (Michigan), Klobaucher (Minnesota), and Cantwell (Washington) all won re-election (except in Cardin's case, where he won the race to replace retiring Senator Paul Sarbanes - a finer Senator there has never been; quietly, Maryland had my favorite delegation in the Senate - and not just because they were mine...Sarbanes and Mikulski are/were two of the Senate's most likeable AND most liberal Democrats. The party should/should have showcase/d them more).
Of the 7 Republican seats, the Republicans have won, as I write this, one seat. Harold Ford, Jr. has lost the Tennessee race, which is disturbing, becuase his opponent (some asshole named Corker) ran the most overtly racist ad I have ever seen. It made Willie Horton look damn tame by comparison. But that's Tennessee, for you. Fucking assholes.
Rhode Island went to Whitehouse (if that's not the name ofd a potential Presidential Candidate then I don't know what is! - ok, ok, so I'm sure that joke has been made 1,000 times, I don't care). Pennsylvania went to Casey (hey, Rick Santorum: Welcome to Loserville, Population: You, Asshole!), Ohio to Brown (who will now be one of the most liberal Democrats in the Senate - and he's from fucking Ohio! And they can't get rid of him for 6 whole years!), and Missouri to McCaskill.
In Virginia, with over 99% of precints reporting, Jim Webb leads George "Macasshole" Allen by 8,000 votes with over two million, three hundred-thousand votes counted (John Kerry, I want to punch you in the balls, right now). In Montana, with over 84% of precints reporting, Conrad Tester leads Charles Montgomery Burns (ok, so his first name isn't Charles Montgomery, but it should be!) by 4,000 votes with about three hundred-thousand votes counted (some guy named Jones is the Libertarian Candidate with over seventy-five hundred votes! I could kiss that guy! You gotta love the Libertarians...with all the talk about how the Greens screw the Democrats come election time, no one ver talks about how the Libertarians are almost guaranteed to cost the Republicans at least one state-wide election every cycle). So both races are leeeeeeeeeeaning our way, but not by very much. We would be extremely lucky to win both, IMHO.
But then on the other side - amazing things happened for the Democrats all night. Maybe it will again. Maybe it will, maybe it won't...we'll see soon enough. But in the meantime, I REALLY want to punch John Kerry in the balls.
As for the House - well, I can't wait for the 2007 State of the Union, when we get to hear, "Madam Speaker, the President of the United States!) for the first time. Who could possibly be a better Speaker than Nancy Pelosi? I can not wait.
227 Democrats, possibly as many as 244 (or, more realistically, in the 235-240 range). Not a single Democrat incumbent went down yet, although there are still some in races too close to call. Fortunately, we don't need to wait to see who has this House - 218 is majority.
Shit is going to be different, now. I hope you're ready for 2 years of investigations into every corrupt thing the Republicans have been doing the last 6 years. Enron, Jack Abramhoff, the page scandal - it's on like Donkey King. It's all coming out, baby - and motherfuckers are going to be taken out of Capital Hill in goddam handcuffs before this shit is done. You know that war President Bush has been planning for Iran? Not gonna happen now. Those ridiculous tax cuts he wants to give out to his buddies? Not anymore. No-bid contracts for Haliburton? The jig is up. It doesn't even matter, really, who controlls the Senate - although taking control would be nice, especially for when 2008 rolls around. The Democrats control just enough of Congress so that the President's rubber stamp machine has been broken.
What a great night for the minimum wage! 6 states had "raise the minimum wage" initiatives, propositions, or potential ammendmants, and those props are 6-0.
Ok, as soon as I hear anything about the 2 remaining Senate races I'll fill you in immediately. Till then...
What a beautiful sight to come home to. Now I know how the Red Sox fans felt when they beat the Yankees in the ALCS in '04. We never beat these fuckers, not in an election anyway (as I mentioned previously, we always get our way eventually, of course). But this - this was as close to complete dominance as you can get. Let's go to the Senate first.
The Senate is tied 98-98, with two races still too close to call (those races, as I predicted in my personal blog, are Virginia and Montana). The Democrats came into tonight needing to win 12 of 13 "key races" - races that were expected to be close that would decide Senate control. 7 were Republican-held seats, or potential pick-ups: Montana, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Ohio, Tennessee, and Missouri. 6 were Democratic-held seats, or potential losses: Maryland, New York (although I have no idea how they thought Hillary Clinton could possibly lose), New Jersey, Michigan, Minnesota, and Washington. If the Democrats held their own down and stole 6 Repub seats, the Senate is theirs.
The Democrats did hold all six seats. Cardin (Maryland), Clinton, Menendez (New Jersey), Stabenow (Michigan), Klobaucher (Minnesota), and Cantwell (Washington) all won re-election (except in Cardin's case, where he won the race to replace retiring Senator Paul Sarbanes - a finer Senator there has never been; quietly, Maryland had my favorite delegation in the Senate - and not just because they were mine...Sarbanes and Mikulski are/were two of the Senate's most likeable AND most liberal Democrats. The party should/should have showcase/d them more).
Of the 7 Republican seats, the Republicans have won, as I write this, one seat. Harold Ford, Jr. has lost the Tennessee race, which is disturbing, becuase his opponent (some asshole named Corker) ran the most overtly racist ad I have ever seen. It made Willie Horton look damn tame by comparison. But that's Tennessee, for you. Fucking assholes.
Rhode Island went to Whitehouse (if that's not the name ofd a potential Presidential Candidate then I don't know what is! - ok, ok, so I'm sure that joke has been made 1,000 times, I don't care). Pennsylvania went to Casey (hey, Rick Santorum: Welcome to Loserville, Population: You, Asshole!), Ohio to Brown (who will now be one of the most liberal Democrats in the Senate - and he's from fucking Ohio! And they can't get rid of him for 6 whole years!), and Missouri to McCaskill.
In Virginia, with over 99% of precints reporting, Jim Webb leads George "Macasshole" Allen by 8,000 votes with over two million, three hundred-thousand votes counted (John Kerry, I want to punch you in the balls, right now). In Montana, with over 84% of precints reporting, Conrad Tester leads Charles Montgomery Burns (ok, so his first name isn't Charles Montgomery, but it should be!) by 4,000 votes with about three hundred-thousand votes counted (some guy named Jones is the Libertarian Candidate with over seventy-five hundred votes! I could kiss that guy! You gotta love the Libertarians...with all the talk about how the Greens screw the Democrats come election time, no one ver talks about how the Libertarians are almost guaranteed to cost the Republicans at least one state-wide election every cycle). So both races are leeeeeeeeeeaning our way, but not by very much. We would be extremely lucky to win both, IMHO.
But then on the other side - amazing things happened for the Democrats all night. Maybe it will again. Maybe it will, maybe it won't...we'll see soon enough. But in the meantime, I REALLY want to punch John Kerry in the balls.
As for the House - well, I can't wait for the 2007 State of the Union, when we get to hear, "Madam Speaker, the President of the United States!) for the first time. Who could possibly be a better Speaker than Nancy Pelosi? I can not wait.
227 Democrats, possibly as many as 244 (or, more realistically, in the 235-240 range). Not a single Democrat incumbent went down yet, although there are still some in races too close to call. Fortunately, we don't need to wait to see who has this House - 218 is majority.
Shit is going to be different, now. I hope you're ready for 2 years of investigations into every corrupt thing the Republicans have been doing the last 6 years. Enron, Jack Abramhoff, the page scandal - it's on like Donkey King. It's all coming out, baby - and motherfuckers are going to be taken out of Capital Hill in goddam handcuffs before this shit is done. You know that war President Bush has been planning for Iran? Not gonna happen now. Those ridiculous tax cuts he wants to give out to his buddies? Not anymore. No-bid contracts for Haliburton? The jig is up. It doesn't even matter, really, who controlls the Senate - although taking control would be nice, especially for when 2008 rolls around. The Democrats control just enough of Congress so that the President's rubber stamp machine has been broken.
What a great night for the minimum wage! 6 states had "raise the minimum wage" initiatives, propositions, or potential ammendmants, and those props are 6-0.
Ok, as soon as I hear anything about the 2 remaining Senate races I'll fill you in immediately. Till then...
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