Ok, now I'm giddy
I don't have time today to think about Georgia's mostly disappointing election results or the people of this state's flippant attitude towards the state constitution and their blind idea of "patriotism" in the face of common sense. I do have time to insufferably gloat over:
- Nancy Pelosi as the soon-to-be first female House Speaker ever: While this is positively historic, it's also negatively historic is that she's ONLY the first.
- Donald Rumsfeld resigning: Pelosi said, "He has to go." An hour later, he's gone. That's awesome and just a little bit hot. (Ok, so it didn't really happen like that, but it sorta did.)
- Republicans losing the House and Senate: I didn't care who they lost it to as long as the president will now be held accountable for all the wire-tapping, science-muzzling, torture-rationalizing, fact-make-upping-so-we-can-go-to-war-war-war crap that has gone unchecked for too long.
- Arizona NOT passing ban on same-sex marriage as a constitutional amendment: As the first state to NOT pass an amendent when presented on the ballot, especially when they passed two more conservative-like amendents (English as the official language and reduced public services for illegal immigrants), I shake my head and applaud lightly in their direction.
Since the news of the day is all of the above, you know I'm not lying. Not today. This is unbelievable, especially since I was very convinced that the Democrats would surely find a way to mess it all up. They still have two years to do just that, but for today, I'm going to find myself a Republican (not hard down here) and just smile.
Like this. Only less furry. And goaty.
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« November 08, 2006 1:15 PM | Post a Comment »
2 comment(s):
said:
I am also happy with some of the election results.
While I do not live in Pennsylvania anymore, I still follow the politics there. The homophobic Santorum lost his Senate seat to Bob Casey, Jr. Yeah!
As a new resident of California, I'm in shock at the number of propositions that were on the ballot. There were 13 state propositions, plus one county, and one school district (in my area). Half of the propositions were for bonds to fund new and/or existing projects. These are good ideas; however, we (taxpayers) must pay back nearly $2 for ever $1 issued for a bond.
said:
Actually, his proper name is EVIL Santorum. Remember Bob Casey's father was the PA governor way back when?
In Georgia, it was the same, a long list of questions. Ours were mostly to amend the constitution so that certain members of the population wouldn't have to pay taxes. Not like the state will now have to make up the lost revenue by increasing OTHER taxes.
Isn't it called math or something like that?
