Well, the sushi was especially delicious last night. (My local fish house is a tiny little hole-in-the-wall that I can walk to in five minutes. It serves a limited menu, but it's fresh and quite inexpensive as these place go---four sushi courses, a seaweed salad and Sapporo for only $23.) Guess I was surprised Team Democrat did as well as they did since I assumed (not unreasonably) that the Real Americans would steal two or three of the big battleground big states since (a) nothing less than the Fate of Western Civilization® hung in the balance and (b) they had four years to prepare for it.
One thing I did last night that I don't normally do is watch the Fox people analyzing the late returns. Watching Karl Rove flat-out lie about the victory margin in Ohio while the on-screen vote tally proved the point was amazing. Do they really just pull numbers like this out of their butts the way he did last night on a regular basis, no matter what the graphics say? I guess they do, since I see examples of it all the time at Media Matters, but witnessing it in person is just astounding. How so many people can watch this channel for more than five minutes and not see how many ways they're being conned, I'll never understand because, really, Fox's act is just about as transparent as what you see on Trinity Broadcasting during Praise-a-Thon Week. But it was cool all the same to behold all the somber faces and hushed voices on-camera.
Now? Well, time to keep the pressure on Team Democrat and our conciliator-in-chief not to offer any budget damn concessions to last night's losers---because there's a reason why they, you know, lost---even if it means letting all the tax cuts expire. It's not too terribly inspiring, but at this point we need to summon the resources to postpone Austerity on The Installment Plan for as long as humanly possible. Not too fired up about it, but ready to go.
---Baron V
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