HA!

The Democratic Party picked up more than two-dozen House of Representatives seats in yesterday’s midterm elections. Since the Dems needed only 15 seats, they now are back in the driver’s seat in the House. And when the dust settles and all votes are counted (and recounted) it may turn out they rule the Senate as well. The fate of the Senate rests on Virginia and Montana. Paul Begala, President Bill Clinton’s counselor and CNN Democratic strategist, said it best: “The President is remarkably unpopular tonight”. I have made a wager. I think the remarkably unpopular president will be “sillily defiant” at his 1:00 pee-em press conference today. The other side of the wager believes he will be “mockingly gracious”. Nearly everyone who voted watched the results roll in last night on the three major network TV channels or on cable channels. Everyone, that is, except the president of the United States. Bush-the-Arrogant-and-Terminally-Ignorant had to be informed by Karl Rove that the House of Representatives had gone back to Democratic control. The Prez was said to be “disappointed”. I’ll bet. The man who seemed to believe he and the GOP had a special dispensation from God to piss on the people of the United States and its Constitution for as long as it amused him to do so, must have been disbelieving, disdainful, disgusted and disputatious as well as a tad disappointed. Personally, I am delighted that Ed Rendell was resoundingly re-elected Governor of Pennsylvania. But for me, the high point of the whole evening was the news that Pennsylvania voters had kicked Senator Rick Santorum out of the Senate. Now that he’s out of work, perhaps the troglodytic and moronic little religious fanatic can get a job with The Flat Earth Society. But, mainly, I would like to say: Ha! That’s pretty much the essence of my analysis of the upshot of the Midterm elections of 2006. HA!