The Election

In general I have paid little attention to this election. I take a little satisfaction that the Democrats will apparently take the House. I won't stay up to see if they take the Senate. I decided today that I would vote Republican for positions having to do with money or justice and Democrat for positions having to do with society and foreign policy (at least for now)... ish. So I suppose I'd rather the Republicans have the House and the Democrats the Senate.

But you will not find me proud of the American people today. Why? Because the same people who stupidly crammed the Congress full of Republicans last time because of Iraq are the same ones cramming the Congress full of Democrats today. Don't expect me to applaud them for something I knew three years ago. Don't expect me to think them smart when they are just as guilty as the ridiculous people they elected last time. They have no right to be angry.

The American people are just as responsible for our current situation as the government they elected while calling the rest of us stupid and unpatriotic. One week they think you're a god. The next week they stone you. One week they're laying down palm branches. The next week they want to crucify you.

Mid-term elections

It is my opinion that we are witnessing pay back. This mid-term election is not about the Democrats. It's about the Republicans. It's about a hubris that thought it could do anything it wanted without having to listen to the other side. It's about riding the wave of unbridled nationalism after 9-11 that gave the Bush administration and all the most radical right wingers a blank check without fear of recrimination...

Until now. The Republicans are going to lose this election big time in the House and they may just lose the Senate as well. The truth about Bush's foreign policy is now inescapable. Any who are still holding out can wait a year to reread this post. They'll agree with me then.

"How have the mighty fallen," we will say on the evening of November 7. Humility was what was needed. A willingness to listen to those disempowered. Instead the Congress and president did whatever they pleased and ignored the other side.

This is justice and it doesn't care whether we're looking at Republicans or Democrats.