The Silver Lining

Everybody’s talking about the Republican tsunami because that’s the way it works: Republicans gloat over every small victory and Democrats moan and weep over every little setback.  I’m guilty of it myself and have been walking around seriously depressed today but I’m going to dedicate my blog tonight to the silver lining.

After I get a little bitching out of the way.  I’m super bummed that we lost Alan Grayson, he’s a good man and I had hopes that he would be

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president some day – actually, that day may still come, so there’s that.  Sorry about Russ Feingold, too.  The defeat that really pisses me off, though, is Scott McAdams in Alaska.  Even if Lisa Murkowski defeats Joe Miller after all the ballots are counted, that is not a win for Democrats.  It’s just one Republican, a fairly right wing Republican, winning out over an extremist nutcase Republican.  It’s not good news.  I don’t blame the voters for this one.

I blame the press.  From the beginning, they covered it as a Miller-Murkowski race and so that is what it came to be.  The lie, repeated often enough, became the truth.  It doesn’t happen in physics, economics or any of the real sciences, but it sure does happen in politics.

O.K., now to the silver linings.  Some of the craziest teabaggers – Paladino, Angle, O’Donnell, that creepy Iott guy in Ohio who likes dressing up like a Nazi – lost.   Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina lost, which is seriously good news for the nation’s most populous and most prosperous state.  Also, it proves that there is a limit to what money will buy.  It may propel a mediocre, fairly crooked candidate into office, but not a Meg Whitman or a Carly Fiorina.  There are limits.  Meg Whitman just threw away 140 million smackeroos of her own money and has absolutely nothing to show for it.  Pardon me for saying it, but LO fucking L, bitch.

The biggest silver lining, however, is around the darkest cloud.  As much as I am disturbed by the prospect of Speaker Boehner, it means that Nancy Pelosi is out.  The woman whose job, whose responsibility, whose duty it was to impeach George Bush, the woman who shrank from that duty, the botoxed old bat, the cowardly, duplicitous Nancy Pelosi is now just the Democratic congresswoman from San Francisco.  The woman who could have, and should have been the nation’s 1st female president has been consigned to the dust bin of history, which is precisely where she belongs.  She had her chance and she blew it.

Now we won’t have to defend her any more, we won’t have to see her crazy eyes and her wrinkled face on the front pages daily.  We probably won’t see very much of her at all from now on.

As much as I hate and fear Republicans, that is indeed something to feel good about.