"Good, bad ...."

[unixronin]

Good:  The Republican party no longer controils all three of the House, the Senate and the Oval Office.  George W. Bush will be in the Oval office for two years, but Republican control of the House is gone, gone, gone.  The Senate is too close to call, tied 49-49 with both Virginia and Montana in recounts.  I'm honestly not sure which way I'd prefer the Senate to go.  I see Joe "Rat Fink" Lieberman somehow won CT as an independent, despite losing his own party's nomination (which led him to declare independent ... "I meant to do that!"); I won't be surprised if he throws in his lot with whichever party is prepared to offer him the biggest and shiniest baksheesh.

Bad:  "Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi."  This idea fails to thrill me.

[I swear I did not front-load the music.]

Comments

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

Um, If Lieberman has any brain, he will notice, that he got 50% of the vote, the Democrat got 40% and the Republican got 10%. He better stay on the good graces of the Democrats, since he can't really pull to many more Republican votes out of the hat.
It should be noted that he has declared he will keep his Good Democrat coat and throw his lot in with them, since they have treated the other Independent who has sided with them decently. That is why both independents are counted in the Democratic camp. The Actual count is 47 Dems, 49 Reps, and 2 Indies. With two still very close and in the counting phase, but the Democrat is ahead in both of them.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Um, If Lieberman has any brain,

Yes, but is that a valid assumption?

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

True True...
Still he is making Demo noises. So there are probably a few political brain cells.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Political brain cells, sure. Real world ones, though...? I tend to regard making party-line Democrat OR Republican noises as more a sign of the absence of functioning brain cells than their presence.

Suppose...

[msa.livejournal.com]

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain, a Biography

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

See - Giggles from The Onion, stringing together every post-election cliche known to reportage. Excerpts:

While analysts had been predicting a possible sweep for months, and early exit-poll numbers seemed favorable, politicians reportedly exceeded even their own expectations, gaining an impressive 100 percent of the overall national vote. [snip]

It goes on and on....

[fruitylips.livejournal.com]

Lieberman's been pretty clear since even before the primary that regardless of what happens he will caucus as a Democrat. In return, he'll keep his committee assignments.

Don't let reality get in the way of your fevered ramblings...you never have before, i spose.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Thank you for that polite and reasoned commentary.



Not.

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

pelosi as speaker i can do without!