You know how it feels when you're having a good day, on the water, under sail, and .......

[Stinky The Clown]

.... the wind dies.

That's how it feels.

[MercutioATC]

1. Consider this:

We've been sitting on a tenuous 60-seat "supermajority" and doing nothing for a year.

Now that the "supermajority" is gone, we'll actually start doing what has been done for decades...using our majority to pass legislation.

[rockymountaindem]

6. No, I predict an unending stream of shameless pandering to Snowe and Collins

Then when we get legislation that they might have just written all by themselves, we'll be told that's how the system works. Get it?

[Motown_Johnny]

2. more like when it shifts... and gets cold, and dark all at the same time

[jgraz]

3. and the boat sinks. and you get eaten by eels.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. And then you run aground.

[timeforpeace]

5. ...bilge pumps all fail at the same time.