Posted on 11/08/2006 2:11:04 PM PST by Zakeet
This column is scrupulously nonpartisan, but we will bend the rules for a moment and acknowledge that last night's outcome was not what we were hoping for. As of now, the Democrats have picked up 28 House seats, giving them at least 228 (a majority is 218). Eleven more seats are undecided, so the Dem gain could be as high as 39. The Democrats also will take a 51-49 majority in the Senate, having won every close race except in Tennessee--though it may be awhile before that's official, depending on whether Virginia's George Allen decides to take his razor-thin loss gracefully like Richard Nixon or brutishly like Al Gore.
Well, we like to think of the glass as being half full, and there's no use crying over spilled milk. (Yes, we know National Cliché Day was last Friday, but hey, better late than never.) So here are some reasons to be happy with the outcome.
Republicans deserved to lose. They arrived a dozen years ago promising reform and smaller government. They did deliver a very successful welfare reform law--but that was over a decade ago. What legislative accomplishments they have delivered since have mostly consisted in approving President Bush's initiatives, which is something, but far from the "revolution" they promised in 1994.
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Agree....now lets get to work to bring it back to where it needs to be and not PC!
I'm looking at the bright side. I have solidified three substantial commercial real estate transactions. The bad news is that my son in law re-upped for 5 years and is headed back to the Gulf in a few months. The president had better not kowtow to the appeasers. He needs to project strength.
Always Look On The Bright Side of Life
from
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Cheer up, Brian. You know what they say.
Some things in life are bad,
They can really make you mad.
Other things just make you swear and curse.
When you're chewing on life's gristle,
Don't grumble, give a whistle!
And this'll help things turn out for the best...
And...
the music fades into the song
...always look on the bright side of life!
whistle
Always look on the bright side of life...
If life seems jolly rotten,
There's something you've forgotten!
And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing,
When you're feeling in the dumps,
Don't be silly chumps,
Just purse your lips and whistle -- that's the thing!
And... always look on the bright side of life...
whistle
Come on!
other start to join in
Always look on the bright side of life...
whistle
For life is quite absurd,
And death's the final word.
You must always face the curtain with a bow!
Forget about your sin -- give the audience a grin,
Enjoy it -- it's the last chance anyhow!
So always look on the bright side of death!
Just before you draw your terminal breath.
Life's a piece of sh*t,
When you look at it.
Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true,
You'll see it's all a show,
Keep 'em laughing as you go.
Just remember that the last laugh is on you!
And always look on the bright side of life...
whistle
Always look on the bright side of life
whistle
A question: With 2 Senators independents, how do the totals come out 51-49?
I blame mostly the republican scandals, i.e. Foley, Delay, Cunningham, Ney, etc. for yesterday's loss. Republicans are not as forgiving as dems are, and when they see corruption, everyone gets punished. Case in point, New Jersey vs Ohio.
Hey, yeah! How about that?
[coffeesnort]
LOL. That tune came to me the moment I saw the title...
Puh-leaze. Independent means "I alway vote with the Dems but don't want to call myself one".
wrong....according to the lib/dems in NJ....what corruption????
Always Look on the Bright Side
I did last night on the news. It's called a mussel flash!
"depending on whether Virginia's George Allen decides to take his razor-thin loss gracefully like Richard Nixon or brutishly like Al Gore."
In other words, George Allen shouldn't follow VA's legal procedure for contesting elections within 1 percentage point. Just go away quietly George, and lick your wounds in private....like John Ashcroft did in Missouri when the dead rose to vote for Callahan's widow.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure, And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
sw
And that's my whole point, New Jersey voted in another dem for governor and ignored the menendez allegations and prior to that there was the corrupt senator who was told not to run for office again. Republicans in OHio, on the other hand, voted for the dems who were running to replace the crooked republicans.
Allen should ask for a recount.
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