it’s a great day in America

I'm still digesting the results of the mid-term election and will have more to say over the weekend, however it must be said that it’s a great day in America. Democrats received a majority because there was no voter fraud; no Diebold voting machine malfunctions, no long voter lines patrolled by ultra-rightwing Republican death squads with vicious dogs intimidating Black voters; Don Rumsfeld is no longer prowling Faluja killing American soldiers; and there is an end to the stream of bad news from Iraq. No we have not passed through the looking glass. We just had an election and because the Democrats got a majority, obviously, none of the usual Democrat excuses for Democrat loss apply.

The short version of why the GOP went down in flames is we are seeing the results of a post-Gingrich revolution period the way we witnessed a post-Reagan revolution period when the conservative reform agenda was betrayed. It is the accommodation of Democrat/Liberal agenda by putative Conservative Republicans and the accumulation of multiple privations by the GOP. The Republicans worked very hard for this defeat. They've earned every lost seat.

Perhaps purged of the feckless Mike DeWine and the spineless Lincoln Chafee, not to mention the departure of the impotent Bill Frist, something good will come of this.

Already, Mitch McConnell, defender of free speech and warrior against McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Gag, is moving to head the GOP in the Senate. And Lamar Alexander, for a while the most conservative (!?!!?!) Senator from Tennessee is making a bid for Whip.

Bush continues his betrayal of conservatives by gleefully expressing his optimism for open-border immigration reforms while choking the border fence baby in the cradle.

More to come later.