God n' Pawlenty

So I figure, the Republicans have spent the last 6 years in a "do-as-we-say-cuz-we-outnumber-you" policy. Like it, lump it, they didn't care, because they were going to do it anyway. If you tried to stop them, you were a sore loser. But now that they can't have their way quite so easily, they'll spend the next two years (and beyond...) bleating that the Democrats are abusing their power and complaining to the media that the Dems won't "reach across the isle" (I hate that term) and compromise with them. It's going to be a fair sight better than the last 6 (erm, 12) years, but it's still going to be ugly. It's actually started already. Remember when B*sh said that he would be a "uniter, not a divider?" Well it's never too late to start, asshole.

Blogger seems to have gobbled up my previous post on this, so briefly; congrats to Mom Klobuchar (whose husband, I gotta say - in all seriousness - looks a little like my father) and to Keith Ellfire Ellison, and a big hearty boo/hiss to Patty Wetterling and Mike Hatch, who couldn't even manage to defeat their muppet opponents. Tim Pawlenty thinks a state 'tax' is different than a state 'fee' and that he can lower the property taxes he caused to skyrocket. And then there's Michele "Cupcake" Bachmann, Minnesota's card-carrying homophobic Republican suburban trophy hag, who doesn't believe in gay marriage, the minimum wage, or continued U.S. membership in the United Nations. I don't want to dwell on the negatives here, but on what was surely a positive day for American politics, I'm dumbfounded by the fact that this Great State could elect both Michele Bachmann and Keith Ellison on the same day. They're like oil and water. Like yin and yang. Like fire and, um, an evil bitch legislating religious intolerance.



Don't... move... I think... we're surrounded...