Wednesday, November 08, 2006

So much is happening!

Well, gay marriage may have been defeated in all but one of the 7 states it was presented to the voters in yesterday, but quite a number of LGBT-supportive and openly gay candidates were elected to offices! Gee, America, you don't want gay people to partner in stable legal relationships, but you don't mind putting them in office where they can enact legislatation? Hmmm. I'm glad more gay folks are in office; however, I wish voters wouldn't be so hasty to deny them and their fellow citizens rights.

Montana is proudly sending a Dem to the Senate! Now we wait for word from Virginia...

I just heard that Donald Rumsfeld is resigning! I can't believe it! Wow! It's about time.

Are we living in Bizzarro World? I can't believe all this is happening! It's been so long! My eyes hurt in the light of this new Sun...

YAY YAY YAY!

2 comments:

f is for Fer; he failed to floss said...

"Meet the new boss / same as the old boss..."

I would be delighted to be wrong. This election was a referendum on Alfred E. Potus and his brownshirts, not an endorsement of new ideas (though to be sure, the Dems could have pissed away that advantage along with all the other opportunities they've squandered during this regime, so good for them). Let's watch very carefully and see what the party out of power -- now back in power -- does these next two years. You Dem true believers out there, hold your team's feet to the fire beginning right now.

Say, here comes Exhibit A: kicking Rummy to the curb was neatly symbolic but will cost W nothing if his new SDoD is from the same breed of carnivore. That position is Congressionally approved, is it not...? Well, then. The course is seemingly clear.

DM said...

If anyone is interested in an interview of Bush's nominee Robert Gates, Texas Monthly recently interviewed him in the context of his presidency at Texas A&M.

The article is very positive, but it is also outside the context of national politics, which will soon render his entire being into a 30 sound bite.

Though I remain suspicious of him simply because he is Bush's pick, like a typical liberal, I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt...for now.