Dear democrats on my flist:

[melannen]

STOP BLOODY COMPLAINING! Thanks.

We took the House, we took the Senate, we managed to get through the President's stubborn head far enough that Rummy is gone, YOU SHOULD NOT BE COMPLAINING.

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[kenosis_kalon]

I'm convinced that if marriage is defined as only between a man and a woman, and marriage provides certain protections under the law, and equal protection regardless of sex is gauranteed constitution, the only logical conclusion is marriage is illegal. Therefore it is my official opinion that no one in a state with said marriage amendment is in fact married, and that they are all therefore guilty of tax evasion, and purgery if they've ever claimed to be married on a legal form such as an IRS 1040. Sadly we are not a land of liberty, or a land of justice. But,

Wiigii!!! we've got the least evil looking congress in ages. Lets try to make the best of it.

[melannen]

Yeah, so true. In fact, in some cases you don't even need to go that far: the Texas amendment bans anything that in any way resembles a marriage, for example. Without bothering to make an exception for old-fashioned heterosexual marriage. Too bad no courts have been brave enough to interpret it that way yet. (I have hopes for the Virginia one, though, which is so broadly written that it may interfere with all kinds of private *business* contracts, and you know what happens if the law gets in the way of business.)

Also: WIIGII!

[notapipe]

It's sunny here. Today was the nicest day we've had in weeks. Hopefully this is not God's thanks for the people in the district north of us voting for Michele Bachmann. (I'm so embarassed. It's not MY district, but they're CLOSE to it.)

I want Habeus Corpus back. Though that might have to wait until Bush is gone.

First priority is corruption in congress. Second priority is corruption in Iraq and the executive.

Priority A, sort of seperate from those priorities, but one I expect to occur in january or february, is a minimum wage hike.

For Iraq, I like a quasi-three-state solution, and the withdrawl of American troops to Kurdistan as a kind of over the horizon force to stop massive genocides, and to protect our only friends in Iraq.

[melannen]

I'm so sorry about that. I would commiserate, except it looks like all the local and near-local races that had a chance in MD actually came out *right*! Even state senator Giannetti went down, oh *yeah*. Except the county council thing, which is just embarrassing.

...Minnesota's survived worse?

I like a three-state solution for Iraq; I'm just not sure we could stabilize it even well enough for that, with the resources we currently have. Although if we swallowed our pride enough to get an actual coalition put together, who knows!

[notapipe]

Well, actually, the State House and State Senate came out right in Minnesota, and just about every down-ticket race went the way I wanted it to (I'm not a fan of DFLer (DFL = Minnesota Dems, because we had a superpowerful Farmer-Labor party) Rebecca Otto for Auditor, and the DFL endorsed candidates for law enforcement offices in my county lost, but otherwise, it all went well). Oh. And Soil & Water Supervisor District 2 and 3rd District Court Judge 44. Those didn't go the way I wanted. (District 4, though, turned out well.)

Oh yeah? Like what? And don't say Jesse, because while he was a nationwide joke, at least at home we could say "well, he isn't a complete tard".

[melannen]

Um. Ignatius Donnelly? Although admittedly his nuttery was more of the "harmless crank" type and less of the "kill them all and let God sort it out" type. So maybe not worse. On the other hand, Michele hasn't been nominated for VP. yet.

Surely there's *somebody* back in your history that counts as "worse" ....darn it, Minnesota politics are so *clean*! It's not fair! Maryland politicians are much more exciting.

[melsmarsh]

So Democrats have offically grabbed the Senate now?

Cool.

I'm not a democrat (I'm a social libertarian), but I have to say I'm pleased.

[melannen]

Last I heard, Webb was still securely in the lead with essentially all votes counted, and had firmly declared victory. Allen hasn't conceded yet, and the lead's small enough that it's just conceivable he could pull it out in a recount, depending on how many shenaningans he thinks he can get away with. Judging by how wishy-washy he's being about whether he'll try for a recount at all, it's starting too seem more and more likely that he has some shenanigans back there already that he's not quite willing to risk a recount uncovering.

The best way to make sure he decides not to risk it? Is to make it clear that the Democrats know they won and they're not going to let him get away with *anything* in order to deny that.

So yes, we took the Senate. We most certainly did.

( I wish I could just go be a socialist libertarian, but I'm not willing to give *any* rope to the other sort of libertarian, who seem to control the party on the whole, so I'm sticking with the Democrats for the long haul.)

[melsmarsh]

My husband is the other type of libertarian to the extreme. It is so weird how people so opposite can be in the same party.

[melannen]

Get some sleep! You were one of the people who did real work for this election, weren't you? I stayed up for Jon Stewart and then had just enough celebratory/medicinal alcohol to let me sleep like a baby all night. :)

I wasn't mainly aiming this at you; (You managed "gleeful", after all!) but at the general air of ennui I was seeing. It *is* easier to be powerless in many ways... which is why seeing attempts to minimalize our own victory scare me. *bites nails* Last night I promised myself that if we pulled this off I would start actually putting real time in for the cause. Now I guess I'll have to.

And you MA people got a Democratic governor, right? That's gotta be a good sign, at least a little....

[melannen]

>> It's like I can have faith in my fellow voters!

I know! Isn't it weird, seeing evidence that people can make good choices? I'm all full of goodwill and lovingkindness and stuff! It's like that thing with Dubya getting re-elected never happened.

...well, no not really. But it would be nice if it was.

...ok, I'm going back and reading my entries form two years ago, and *now* I'm depressed. :P

[beraht]

Corker won in Tennessee. I am grumpy.

[melannen]

If I had to deal with Tennessee politics up close and personal, I think I would be grumpy all the time. I am sorry. :( It would have been awesome if he had lost. But hey, he can't be too much worse than Frist, can he?