Wednesday, November 08, 2006

This Just In

Don't normally do the "link only" posts, but got diverted to this amusing cartoon while following the mid-term races (no, not the Melbourne Cup). Dems pick up the House, but not the Senate...? Worth a look.

Update: the Democrats have picked at least fifteen seats in the House and four in the Senate. The latter still not enough to give them control, but it may go down to the wire.

Early days yet, but as I said to someone in a fit of unreasonable optimism earlier in the week: the world is about to change for the better. That was based on US politics too, though more on my prediction that the 2008 race would be McCain vs. Obama...Is the US ready to elect a black man? Maybe. Is the US ready to elect a woman? Maybe. Hilary Clinton? ...?

Either which way, it's got to get better. The Dark Lords (Darth Cheney et al) will no longer rule us (or at least not quite so blatantly). And yes, I know that Clinton oversaw the complete rejection of Kyoto, and ushered in the Digital Millenium Copyright Act with barely a murmur...but that was a Republican-controlled Congress too.

Come on, it's a good day. We just disabled the reactor core in the Death Star. Well done, Ohio.

And finally: it seems that the Democrats may have secure the Senate as well. And Donald Rumsfeld got fired, I mean resigned. Only six years too late.

People commenting on New Zealand's Public Address blog picked up some of the highlights from Little Green Footballs, where some posters were sure American would immediately suffer a nuclear terrorist attack as a result of having elected Democrats. The scary part is...they were looking forward to it.

Mind you, we have our own, resident, Mark Steyn-suffering-from-advanced-dementia nutjobs as well, as the comments thread on this post shows.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yeh! from me too!! Anything that keeps "celebrities" off the front pages in favour of real news gets my vote. Go Nancy Pelosi! I agree with Cecilia about Hillary, even more so after hearing Hillary speak after her win. Don't want to be hearing more of the same in news clips for years to come. Fascinating day yesterday - can anyone remember when the mid-terms were so dramatic and created so much interest? Or is it I who have changed?

Simon Bidwell said...

Yes, the real question is: is this a case of Wag the Dog? Did Britney deliberately use politics to distract the nation from an important personal issue? I demand an immediate inquiry by a special committee of paparazzi, chaired by Oprah.