What a Week

What a Week

At first, as the election results began to trickle in from the East coast, I wondered if this was not just going to be another mid-term election with a monumental ho-hum attached. I got distracted. Logged on and checked my email. Browsed a couple of the forums. Checked my PayPal stats. Checked my AdSense stats. Pleasantly distracted, I moseyed back to the living room and clicked the mute button and behold, Wolf Blitzer was stammering something about the Democrats and an unpredictable, though heatedly desired upset in the making.

I grinned. What were the odds…? I said a little prayer. As has been observed by some unknown sage ‘All prayers are answered…’ and it goes on to conclude that ‘sometimes the answer is “No”. Not on November 7th, 2006, though.

I could begin to sense the effects of millions of right-thinking voters, all shaking off the despair that we’d ever get our country back from the Bush Power Elite, expressing their disdain and utter disgust with the deceptions, dissemblings and obfuscations attendant on any question asked of the Bush Whitehouse or any of it’s designees.

I went to sleep with childlike trust in the American People, and awoke to salvation in the form of a wholesale drubbing of the current congress and its Coxswain, George W. Bush.

Heh heh. I massaged my palms with glee. I checked the results and pinched myself for the third time to be sure I was not dreaming.

Man, are prayers ever answered.

By late afternoon, Virginia had gone to Webb and Mr. Mecaca was out the door.

Thursday morning revealed the capture of Montana, and best of all, the ‘resignation’ of Donald “Those things are unknowable…” Rumsfeld; perhaps the most inept Secretary of Defense in recent memory.

I am just wishing Cheney and Bush would up and turn over their player cards, too. On the radio this morning, I overheard someone saying, “Dick Cheney would be wise to remain in his secret, undisclosed location”.

I could not agree more.

Long live the United States, our democratic republic as a coherent and cohesive entity, and let us put our foreign policy on a track that ENDEARS rather than ESTRANGES our neighbors, friend and foe alike, to the USA.