Four More What?
At first I wasn’t going to write anything about the election results, mostly because I was too pissed off at My Fellow Americans, and this whole assertion that “moral values” were what was driving the “Bush Mandate”
But then I happened to notice that notoriously left-wing rag “The Wall Street Journal” pointed out that Bush's victory was "the narrowest win for a sitting president since Woodrow Wilson in 1916." So much for the confidence of the nation.
Of course that’s not stopping that jackass from stating that he has “gained capitol” with the American people (although he does have something of a point – he actually got elected this time) and I’m sure he has a whole slate of dumb, dangerous ideas for the nation that his congress will willingly swallow.
I have to say I’m not surprised that the majority of the “red states” were red. The south is basically a write-off (maybe secession wasn't such a bad idea after all) , and as a born-and-raised Midwesterner, I can tell you first-hand that most of us smart ones got the hell out as soon as we could (my college friends reading this who still live there are the exception, of course) leaving mostly the mouth-breathers, the old people and the Bible fumblers. Most of my high school class is still in Council Bluffs and a dimmer bunch of lightbulbs you are not going to meet.
On the bright side, things look pretty good here in the “other” Washington: The Democrats took back control of both houses of the ‘lege, and it’s really looking as if the Governor’s office will stay in the hands of the Democrats as well. Here in Seattle, the greedy businessman who hoped to derail our Monorail project (which we’ve voted on something like four times) just wasted a couple hundred thousands dollars of his own money on a recall effort that was soundly trounced.
Of course, as a frequent Amtrak traveler, I’m concerned that Bush is going to succeed in “privatizing” (Bushspeak for killing) it. But hopefully there are enough non-zombie Republicans out there who will join the Democrats in saving what little of a national rail system we have.
All in all, while I’m not thrilled about this whole thing, I’m not that depressed either. And it’s all thanks to the Wall Street Journal.
But then I happened to notice that notoriously left-wing rag “The Wall Street Journal” pointed out that Bush's victory was "the narrowest win for a sitting president since Woodrow Wilson in 1916." So much for the confidence of the nation.
Of course that’s not stopping that jackass from stating that he has “gained capitol” with the American people (although he does have something of a point – he actually got elected this time) and I’m sure he has a whole slate of dumb, dangerous ideas for the nation that his congress will willingly swallow.
I have to say I’m not surprised that the majority of the “red states” were red. The south is basically a write-off (maybe secession wasn't such a bad idea after all) , and as a born-and-raised Midwesterner, I can tell you first-hand that most of us smart ones got the hell out as soon as we could (my college friends reading this who still live there are the exception, of course) leaving mostly the mouth-breathers, the old people and the Bible fumblers. Most of my high school class is still in Council Bluffs and a dimmer bunch of lightbulbs you are not going to meet.
On the bright side, things look pretty good here in the “other” Washington: The Democrats took back control of both houses of the ‘lege, and it’s really looking as if the Governor’s office will stay in the hands of the Democrats as well. Here in Seattle, the greedy businessman who hoped to derail our Monorail project (which we’ve voted on something like four times) just wasted a couple hundred thousands dollars of his own money on a recall effort that was soundly trounced.
Of course, as a frequent Amtrak traveler, I’m concerned that Bush is going to succeed in “privatizing” (Bushspeak for killing) it. But hopefully there are enough non-zombie Republicans out there who will join the Democrats in saving what little of a national rail system we have.
All in all, while I’m not thrilled about this whole thing, I’m not that depressed either. And it’s all thanks to the Wall Street Journal.
posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay @ Thursday, November 04, 2004
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