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We have lived inside a five-year long nightmare only to wake up to the best politics could offer us up in a new dream. We have a new congress composed of all sorts of our people, a rainbow of opinions and backgrounds and passions. Capturing the Senate means that Bush is no longer King, no longer even a pretender to that false ambition. His bloated control on the government ended in the course of a very long day...a beautiful, terrifying day...

Terrified is how I feel. It's like a trust has been raised up between us and the new Democrats coming in, as well as the ones remaining in Congress. We want to believe in more than government again, we want to believe in EACH OTHER. We have pointed them toward what we want, now they have to make it happen. We have become great worshippers of the promise of the Constitution as we saw it cut to pieces by fascist petro-lunatics. Now is the time to get it right again.

Terrified because Bush is still there, still stupid, still an arrogant alpha male who truly does not believe that things have changed. Firing Rumsfeld was a gesture, someone told him to, probably Darth Cheney. He intends to keep his War, keep his belief that he is right, he is the Decider, the rest of us should go about our business.

Our business, Mr. Bush, is what you should be concerned with, and because you weren't you are lamer a duck than has been witnessed in decades. Nobody will stand by you, nobody will recall in happiness these past five years, or tout their progress. Nobody. Not any person in the world.

You are alone tonight, Mr. Bush.

The rest of us? We're together, for this beautiful fucking moment, five years in the making, if not decades. Nobody knows what is going to happen. We're happy, we're blind, we're hopeful at last.

I'm sorta stoked...  I mean, sure,  I'm a jaded enough veteran of the changing of the guard, that I approach my newfound optimism with a wary eye; yet still, there seems to be the beginning of that slow turn.  That awakening of the leviathon we refer to as the 'huddled masses', 'silent majority', what have you.....  I can at least say, I have a small glimmer of hope for a brighter day....   Mayb, just maybe, AmeriKKKa will turn from her course of arrogance and folly...  dare I begin to believe in a brighter tommorow upon the horizon????   {{{{  You are alone Mr. Bush}}}     Great line Cen :wink: ----------  sal

Allen Concedes in Virginia Senate Race; Democrats Win Full Control of Congress
By Christine Hauser

Published November 9, 2006 by the New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/09/us/po ... nted=print (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/09/us/politics/10virginiacnd.html?ei=5094&en=39154caed4de2d42&hp=&ex=1163134800&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print)

Senator George Allen of Virginia conceded today that he lost his re-election race to the Democratic challenger, Jim Webb, ending the last undecided Senate contest and giving Democrats control of the full Congress for the first time in a dozen years.

“They have spoken,” said Mr. Allen, referring to the people of Virginia and calling them the owners of the government. “And I respect their decision.” He said he had called Mr. Webb and congratulated him.

Mr. Webb was ahead by about 8,700 votes, according to the state elections board, several hours before Mr. Allen gave his statement.

Mr. Allen said he would not exercise the legal right to ask for a recount. “It is with deep respect for the people of Virginia,” he said, “that I do not wish to cause more rancor by protracted litigation which would in my judgment not alter the results.”

Mr. Webb had already claimed victory in the race after Tuesday’s voting, when Virginia and Montana emerged as pivotal focal points because their Senate races remained undecided. Jon Tester, the Democratic challenger, won the race in Montana and the Republican incumbent, Conrad Burns, conceded today.

”I stand ready to help as Montana transitions to a new United States Senator,” Mr. Burns said in a statement. “We fought the good fight and we came up just a bit short. We’ve had a good 18 years and I am proud of my record.”

Virginia officials said today that they were continuing to canvass in several districts as part of the formal certification process in the closely watched contest. They also started to count provisional ballots cast by voters whose eligibility to vote could not be confirmed at the polling places.

Democrats, ecstatic at the prospect that they might have swept both houses of Congress, did not wait yesterday for final word from Virginia.

“It is virtually 100 percent that Webb is going to win the race,” said Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, who led the Democratic effort to take back the Senate. “I think you can say without any hesitancy or doubt that Democrats are going to be the majority party in the Senate.”

Mr. Webb began planning his transition, and aides to Mr. Allen had suggested yesterday that he could acknowledge defeat as early as this afternoon.

Mr. Webb, taking a page from the Republican playbook in the contested presidential vote count in Florida in 2000, tried to cast his victory as inevitable. But Mr. Allen’s advisers yesterday held out the possibility of a recount.

Aides to Mr. Webb began referring to him as Virginia’s senator-elect, and this afternoon he issued a news release naming three members of his transition team.

Democratic Party officials and some news organizations, including MSNBC and The Associated Press, declared Mr. Webb the winner of the election Wednesday.

The concession by Mr. Allen ended a rough campaign marked by accusations of racism against him and sexism against Mr. Webb in a contest that alienated many voters, particularly women, and has apparently left the senator’s once-promising political career in tatters.

John M. Broder contributed reporting from Washington; Jim Robbins contributed from Helena, Montana; Jeff Zeleny from New York and Abby Goodnough from Sarasota, Fla.

IT'S OFFICIAL WHOOHOOHOOO

CHICKEN DANCE WHOOOHOOOOOOOO

WHOOO FUCKING WHOOOOO

THE KING IS SHRIVELED

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 :twisted:  :twisted:  :twisted:  :twisted:  :twisted:

:D  :D --------------  Yaaaaaaayyyyy!!!!!    Man;  I've got the day off, and this too!!!!!---------  Believe I'm gonna get blitzed this evening :P ---sal

It has kind of revived my faith in democracy. You can't fool all of the peo-ple all of the time