Saturday, December 30, 2006
2006
So my soulmate didn't move into an apartment upstairs, & no little old lady gave me her low mileage Toyota (although I was offered a 1988 Lincoln Town Car). I didn't have a midweek August special at the Kismet Motel in Wildwood & in fact didn't even go to the shore until last Tuesday; I can't remember when I last failed to set foot on a boardwalk at some point during a year, 2001 maybe. Haven't got the new PC yet. Grateful for those who remembered my birthday & Christmast. An air-conditioner in time for the July heat wave. 9 radio shows. Cat-sitting weekends over the summer & watching satellite TV there while doing a load of laundry. Reading lots of private eye novels. A few new poems.
But Election Night was unforgettable, the one I'd been hoping for since 1994. Of course, the new congress won't do 1/3rd of what us liberals want it to do; pork & a certain amount of shenanigans are institutional. But I know what the Repugs in the House & Senate can't do now, which is just about everything they were doing. & that is a great mercy for these United States of America. No matter how you look at it, analyze it, debate it, Democrats are not Republicans, & that contrast is a lot more substantial than many witless commentators would have us believe. Whatever the Repugs do now will have to be accomplished by executive branch fiat, & the guy occupying that office no longer has unlimited power to create the menu & order whatever he wants from it, too. Nancy Pelosi is not Gingrich or Hastert. Steny Hoyer is not Armey, DeLay or Boehner. Harry Reid is not Lott or Frist. To paraphrase Billy Mumy from a famous Twilight Zone episode: "They were bad men. They were very bad men."
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
But Election Night was unforgettable, the one I'd been hoping for since 1994. Of course, the new congress won't do 1/3rd of what us liberals want it to do; pork & a certain amount of shenanigans are institutional. But I know what the Repugs in the House & Senate can't do now, which is just about everything they were doing. & that is a great mercy for these United States of America. No matter how you look at it, analyze it, debate it, Democrats are not Republicans, & that contrast is a lot more substantial than many witless commentators would have us believe. Whatever the Repugs do now will have to be accomplished by executive branch fiat, & the guy occupying that office no longer has unlimited power to create the menu & order whatever he wants from it, too. Nancy Pelosi is not Gingrich or Hastert. Steny Hoyer is not Armey, DeLay or Boehner. Harry Reid is not Lott or Frist. To paraphrase Billy Mumy from a famous Twilight Zone episode: "They were bad men. They were very bad men."
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