OK, I'm checking out. Thank you, DU, so very, very much.

[WilliamPitt]

Was here all night for 2002.

And 2004.

And 2006.

And 2008.

And now 2010.

Bad night tonight. Could have been worse (think 2002 and 2004). But we will endure, survive, thrive, and prevail.

Thank you for making this place so very, very special.

Hope over fear.

:toast:

:grouphug:

[onehandle]

1. Hope over fear. That's what Harry just said in his victory speech.

'Nevada chose hope over fear.'

[Skink]

2. didn't you get the axe?

a badge of honor.

[WilliamPitt]

3. "a badge of honor"

Not really.

But thanks.

:toast:

[avaistheone1]

4. Cheers.

Hope over fear. Onward!

:toast:

[KharmaTrain]

5. We've Had Worse Nights

My first visits here were around the 2002 election. Nothing was worse than the feeling following 2004. The thought of 4 more years of the boooosh criminal enterprise was majorly depressing...a funk that lasted for the rest of the year. It was justified, but it also ended up as a source of energy in working to defeat the GOTB in '06 and '08. That morning in '04 not only did the Democrats lose seats, it was on the verge of the political abyss...near filibuster proof rushpublican majorities were in sight. There's no such dire situation now...and no week long funk. Tomorrow the work begins again...there's still plenty of good to work with and more that can be added.

[WilliamPitt]

6. 2004 was a bloodbath

...from which, as we were told, we would never recover.

Perspective is king.

[Withywindle]

11. 2004 was the worst.

Because we had no warning. It was a gut-punch.

And I worked at a weekly-newspaper job then, and Tuesdays were our big layout night, and when we walked out and went to the nearest 4-AM-license bar, that was just when the Ohio tide was turning. The bartender was in tears and kept pouring free "rage shots" all night.

I still don't really remember Kerry's concession speech the next day at noon all that well, because I had to keep running to the can.


(I don't blame Kerry for that. Never have. Never will. I blame Bush, Blackwell in Ohio, and all the ignorant numbnuts who made it close enough to steal in the first place.)

[Mojorabbit]

9. Yes, 2004 was way worse than tonight. nt

[murielm99]

7. I don't think it is that bad.

The teabaggers are saying already that they plan to hold the republicans accountable. There may be so much infighting in that party that they can do nothing, agree on nothing. It will be fun to watch.

We will have to be the ones who report it, because the media will not.

This was no bloodbath. We kept the Senate. And we have lived through worse. I am older than some of the people here. I have lived through a Presidential assassination, cities on fire and Nixon.

Things will change again in two years. My candidate for the House lost. He wants us to save our huge sign. He will start gearing up again in six months so that he can run again in two years.

[WilliamPitt]

8. You don't live in VA, KY, FL, TX or VA...

...but I kind of agree. It could have been worse, and it's going to be bad...but despite all the TV bloviating, we're OK.

And we will rise.

:toast:

:grouphug:

[murielm99]

12. I live in Illinois, in a red county, and that is bad enough.

I am not thrilled that our Senate seat appears to be going to a republican, and our governorship as well.

Illinois politics is always interesting. Now we have Rod selling pistachio nuts.

[Ghost Dog]

13. Take advantage of that infighting, that's my advice. Focus on the economic unhappiness,

open up and strictly audit ALL the books, onshore and offshore and 'special vehicle', of the crony financiers and their enablers, including the Federal Reserve / Treasury (corrupt) system itself and White House ' economic advisers'.

Revisit and re-analyse what it means to 'incorporate', to be a corporation, in terms of jobs, a meaningful 'stake' in society for ordinary working folk, honest media and fair elections in the USA today.

Oh, and if possible, do mention the wars.

cf. eg:

The Fraud Started At the Very Top: With Government Leaders

The government's entire strategy now - as during the S&L crisis - is to cover up how bad things are.

But it is not only a matter of covering up fraud that has already happened. The government also created an environment which greatly encouraged fraud.

Here are just a few of many potential examples:

* The government-sponsored rating agencies committed massive fraud (and see this)

* The Treasury department allowed banks to "cook their books"

/More... http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/11/fraud-started-at-very-top-with.html

...

... (They) don't want to change the bankers, because if we do, if we put honest people in, who didn't cause the problem, their first job would be to find the scope of the problem. And that would destroy the cover up....

Geithner is ... covering up. Just like Paulson did before him....

These are all people who have failed. Paulson failed, Geithner failed. They were all promoted because they failed....

Until you get the facts, it's harder to blow all this up. And, of course, the entire strategy is to keep people from getting the facts....

/... http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/04/senior-s-regulator-says-government.html

[pnorman]

15. Thanks for your comments. I'm bookmarking it for careful study later.

And yes, I'll be sporting this Obama avatar for a while to come!

[althecat]

10. G'night Mr Pitt....

[pinboy3niner]

14. The sky is not falling--sleep well

Shifts in party control of our legislative houses is normal. We swing 'like a pendulum do,' as we always have.

Hope over fear. And only weenies give up so easily.

:toast:

:grouphug:

[WinkyDink]

16. Not "fear"; ANGER.