[Lazamataz]

Reality is reality. We are powerless to change what has happened. Now it is time to suit-up and show up. I do have a few pearls that might be extracted from the heap of feces I am greeted with this morning:

• Republicans tend to govern more conservatively when they are in the minority.

• Tha margins of victory for the Democrats are slim enough, in the Senate at least, that they won't be able to ramroad too much whackiness through.

• The attempt to be utterly whacky, as the Democrats will be, will -- even as the legislative silliness dies -- give Americans a taste of the Hillary! lifestyle, hopefully repelling them.

• Finally, we got a few decent SCOTUS judges. THANK G-D!

[goldstategop]

We can't pass our agenda any more but we can gum up the works for two years. In the Senate, conservative Senators can kill everything the Democrats want to do. It takes 60 votes to get things done there. The procedure to halt filibusters is called cloture. I expect to see a lot of use of the former. The point is to make sure the Democrats do not build accomplishments they can use for 2008.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus