Oh Happiness...for A While

The election came to an end today when "Macacawitz" Allen conceded the race to his opponent, Jim Webb, giving the Democrats total control over Congress with the cooperation of course of Mr. Lieberman who has promised to caucus with the Democrats. To tell the truth, I have been (among other miscellaneous maladies) really upset over the state of the Union with a seeming Banana Republic having set up shop along the Potomac and K Street. The culture of corruption, which is fairly instituionalized had become florid; an accepted quid pro quo for anything at all getting done. The Democratic Party, of which I have been a member since as long as I could say the word "Democrat" was a rotting old corpse only able to shriek like a wounded Banshee in the guise of a short-statured former governor of Vermont, known mostly heretofore for its ice-cream. Able only to utter monosyllabic words like "No", or "Bush stinks", they had to have this election actually handed to them via a nearly perfect disasterous month of October for the GOP which last I knew, used to be the home of Conservatives, but under Bush was spending money like a drunken socialist in Denmark.

Alas, the end of the Republican reign that began in 1994 with the "Contract On America" er, Contract For America" came to a thankful end at about 1:30 p.m. Pacific time today when George "Macacawitz" Allen through his last football pass to and from the audience who had turned out to see their man act like a gentleman in front of the cameras and fans. What's the story with the football for Georgy? Its not like HE was a football coach or a player, but somehow, he's borrowed his father's well-deserved renown and coopted the All-American game for himself. Though, oddly he didn't want to coopt his mother's Sephardic Judaism except of course for the now well-worn "Macaca" brought here from Tunisia or Algeria or one of those French colonies. Which is not his fault altogether. The mother was baptized into Catholicism and raised the kinder as goyim. OK, lots of people have done that. No problem.

Now that the contests are over with, what is Keith Olbermann going to crack wise about? Well, wouldn't you know it, over fruit salad this morning, George and the present heads of the Republican controlled Congress are planning how they are going to ram through, quick-like, all the legislation they need to before they have to sit up and take notice of other folks with other ideas. On the front burner are litttle things like more terrorist laws (that is, terrorism inflicted by Bush and this Congress on the American public), laws that Bush thought that heretofore weren't required for him to legalize "signing statements" which, according to most people is completely illegal -- they are kind of like little vetoes where Bush tells everybody which clauses the executive will enforce and which he won't. There are other things that are pending, but while the Democrats are basking in the glow of a hard-to-avoid-victory, they had better not be bending over to pick up quarters off the street in front of Capitol Hill, because having worked for a kind of shrewd Texas businessman for a time, I can promise you that Bush and company are right now figuring how to steal as much as they can (legally of course), pass as much pork-barrel legislation as they can and otherwise take as much advantage as they can of their soon to be lost legislative dominance. Corruption? Feh. It ain't over until they've counted the amount of staplers that are missing in mid-January in Washington.

Rumsfeld who?