So, a confession. Readers who’re convinced that my dislike for President Bush automatically makes me a Democrat anyway will probably be unsurprised by this, but I think I just had the first experience of genuine solidarity with a major-party electoral victory of my adult life. On the way home from watching the results, in a car evenly split between tipsy Dems and liberatarians, Fleetwood Mac’s song “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow,” Clinton’s theme song for the 1992 DNC, came on the radio. And we all had a big sing-along.
Of course, this enthusiasm will probably last for about a week of the 110th Congress, at which point I’ll have to find new friends. But it was a nice moment.
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1 Barry // Nov 8, 2006 at 6:51 pm
Jim Henley (IIRC), put it that he’d like to see the return of normal politics. Screaming at each other over some government spending, or regulatory matters.
As opposed to Bush’s power to ‘disappear’ people and torture at will.
2 James Landrith // Nov 8, 2006 at 10:23 pm
Yeah, I’ve been feeling guilty about my excitement over the results. But then, I’d rather argue with economic socialists than be constantly looking over my shoulder in fear of the neo-fascists that were running things recently.
I’m looking forward to some gridlock. Hopefully.
3 Steven Maloney // Nov 9, 2006 at 1:10 am
Julian is not a democrat. For the record, even if a party formed specifically to adhere to Julain’s ddepest convictions, I’d give him about two weeks before he tired of them and went his own way.