I did my little part in helping John Yarmuth take down Anne Northup, one of the opening salvos in tonight’s Democratic explosion.
I’d really, really like for us to take both houses, but…
does Happy Dance and cries a little (happy tears), because I’m just so happy about Nancy Pelosi becoming Speaker of the House
WAY TO GO, NANCY! YOU GO, GIRL!
Ah, yes! I’m quite delighted. I really don’t give a rat’s ass which party controls what, but it’s been my experience that us commoners are much better served when one party has the White House and the other controls congress.
We now get gridlock, a most wonderful situation in which none of the bastards can get anything done.
It’s a sad state of affairs, but gridlock is the best thing for the citizenry. HOORAY!
I’m gonna’ break out my bottle of Maker’s Mark and have me a little celebratory drink. 
Best mod-hat post ever.
Oh, and shakeshakeshake
CNN has lots of different answers depending on what page you’re looking at. It’s saying the Dems have to have 51 seats for a majority but the Repubs only 50, which assuming that Sanders allies himself with the Dems isn’t correct (50 Dems plus one allied Socialist equals Dem control). But it’s also saying that there are no “independent” seat pickups which isn’t true since they’ve called Sanders as the winner. But Sanders’s individual race isn’t tagged as a party change for the seat, which isn’t true since AFAIK he isn’t taking over from another independent. But CNN is also calling Lieberman’s win a party change, presumably because he wasn’t the Dem nominee. But then they don’t list him in the “independent” column either.
I’m really hoping that both of the still-open races (Virginia and Montana) go to the Dems because I’m having visions of Lieberman becoming the most powerful man in the Senate and it’s making me positively queasy.
CNN called Connecticut for Lieberman pretty early tonight. I think it was 9 or 9:30. I didn’t actually see them call Vermont, but they paid less attention to non-“key” races, and Sanders won it in a cakewalk. Some of their charts are screwy: they show that there are zero independents in the Senate, when that’s obviously not the case.
Sanders, historically, has always caucused with Democrats in Vermont. In fact, he actually won the Democratic Senate primary, and declined the nomination because he preferred to run as an independent. Schumer and Reid, along with other prominent Dems, backed him all the way. Lieberman said months ago that he would caucus with the Democrats if he was re-elected.
I noticed Santorum’s daughter holding a doll while she listened to him give his concession speech. She also appears to be a bit old, not to own a doll, but at any rate to be carrying one around. I wonder if someone told her to bring it, for maximum glurge appeal?
Meanwhile, I’m still sweating the results of Prop 86 in California. Last time I looked, it was 53% against, but still incomplete.
FWIW, congratulations from this bleeding heart liberal on the other side of the pond!
I’ll wait to be thrilled until they get back to work. I will admit to a certain sense of glee thinking about Karl Rove and “his numbers” that guaranteed the republicans wouldn’t lose the house. Hearing the head of the RNC talk about how he was looking forward to a new era of “bipartisanship” (and boy I bet he never thought he’d say that) put a smile on my face as well.
There’s just nothing new under the sun, is there?
Now let’s see what we can do about getting term limits, getting the government out of people’s bedrooms and doctors’ offices, and forbidding earmarks or riders or whatever it is they’re calling those last minute, don’t have anything to do with the bill, additions that our lawmakers like to tack on in the wee hours after debate has closed but before voting starts.
It might also assume that 50 is a majority for Republicans in the Senate since the Vice President votes to break ties and I don’t think that there is any doubt which way he would vote.
I’m happy, but the flavor of all of the gay marriage bans that passed is bitter and acrid.
To quote Ben Harper: “I believe in a better way.”
As a Republican, I wish to say thank you. I have been so disgusted with the Republican party and their ineffectiveness (Privatize Social Security? Cutting spending? Dealing with illegal immigration? Hello? Is this thing on?) that they needed to be slapped around a bit.
They needed a time out. Let them go sit in the corner and think quietly for two years.
I’m not quite in the mood for celebrating. I’m more in a “Serves you right” mood. Instead of champagne, can I have one of those yummy sausage things?
Well, at this point, things do look good for Democrats, but it’s still a bit early to break out champagne.
At any rate, don’t get all wound up just yet. Those Democrats we did vote in better do a hell of a better job than the bunch of misguided, lazy, crooked, good-for-nothings we have now. That should be a breeze.
We better have a radical change for the better right freakin’ NOW or I will withdraw my U.S. citizenship and move to Europe.
Thankyou. I feel the same way. I started a thread in IMHO if anyone wants to have a casual discussion of such things.
:::::Snoopy Dance::::::
It’s been so long since I’ve been happy with the results of an election that I don’t know how to feel .
Not only did the majority of my candidates win, the smoking issue that my company’s been working hard on passed! We didn’t expect it to pass, all we wanted was for the issue against it to fail, which it did. I was SHOCKED that it went exactly as we’d all hoped.
E.
I did my part.
Tom Kean Jr (aka “Lex Luthor”) has been sent packing back to some country-club bar to drink off his shame (probably on somebody elses ‘member account’ too).
In his concession speech, he said he’d be back. I guess he just needs to gather more Meteor-Rocks first. 
(Why am I suddenly hungry for a face-full of Allison Mack?)
I am not so much happy as I am feeling good. Like I can breathe again.
But the proof is in the pudding (whatever the hell that means) and so now we see just what these Dems will do. My bad side wants the Dems to do unto the Reps what was done to them (the shutting out of committees etc), but the better side of me knows that’s no way to run a government.
<dusts off hands> That’s done. Now…
Dems win! Dems win! Let the investigations begin!
I’m happy that the Democrats have gained some power. They’ll need it. They’ll also have to have some fortitude. I am worried because they’re really got to do the right thing and get us back on track, but that’s hard, dirty work with few immediate rewards. Two years isn’t long, so they’ll need to be decisive (and right).
I also hope we can use this time like My Name Is Earl and turn around some of the ill will we’ve engendered lately.