Voting Day

I've been here before.

Two years ago today I voted, and then drove to my D&D game while listening to NPR on the radio; the news sounded good. When the game was over and I started driving home, everything had changed, and my hopes had gone down in flames.

I don't think it will work out that way; from what I've heard up to this point, there's no way that the Republicans (I will never call them the "GOP" again, because there's nothing grand about them) can steal the House back. I still suspect that they'll keep the Senate (barely), but as of right now, we don't know.

Still, I'm not going to stay up too much later.

I do suspect that Bush & Co. will ignore the House, stonewalling any attempts at checks or balances, incidentally. I only hope that the Democrats don't give in. I'm very much afraid that they will, though.

I was home from work today, incidentally. Sebastian woke up screaming in pain; his hip hurt terribly. He couldn't get out of bed. We considered taking him to the hospital, but since he didn't seem to be suffering unless he tried to move, we decided to call his doctor when the office opened instead.

We got an early appointment and took him in. I had to carry him to and from the car, which became pretty painful for me; he's no lightweight! There was a possibility of a break high up on his femur, but the doctor suspected that it was just some soft tissue damage, some pulled muscles perhaps. I'd thrown him onto the bed (it's a game he likes to play) about a week ago, and he'd landed wrong; he started complaining of hip pain then, and the complaints got worse and worse as time went on. But this morning the pain apparently got much worse.

Anyway, we took him for x-rays and there's no break. The doctor gave him a high dose of ibuprofen, and that helped a great deal. With any luck he'll be well enough to go to school tomorrow.

Okay, time for me to sleep. Here's hoping when I wake up tomorrow that the Democrats still have a comfortable majority in the House. The Senate is still too much to hope for.

Voting Day

I've been here before.

Two years ago today I voted, and then drove to my D&D game while listening to NPR on the radio; the news sounded good. When the game was over and I started driving home, everything had changed, and my hopes had gone down in flames.

I don't think it will work out that way; from what I've heard up to this point, there's no way that the Republicans (I will never call them the "GOP" again, because there's nothing grand about them) can steal the House back. I still suspect that they'll keep the Senate (barely), but as of right now, we don't know.

Still, I'm not going to stay up too much later.

I do suspect that Bush & Co. will ignore the House, stonewalling any attempts at checks or balances, incidentally. I only hope that the Democrats don't give in. I'm very much afraid that they will, though.

I was home from work today, incidentally. Sebastian woke up screaming in pain; his hip hurt terribly. He couldn't get out of bed. We considered taking him to the hospital, but since he didn't seem to be suffering unless he tried to move, we decided to call his doctor when the office opened instead.

We got an early appointment and took him in. I had to carry him to and from the car, which became pretty painful for me; he's no lightweight! There was a possibility of a break high up on his femur, but the doctor suspected that it was just some soft tissue damage, some pulled muscles perhaps. I'd thrown him onto the bed (it's a game he likes to play) about a week ago, and he'd landed wrong; he started complaining of hip pain then, and the complaints got worse and worse as time went on. But this morning the pain apparently got much worse.

Anyway, we took him for x-rays and there's no break. The doctor gave him a high dose of ibuprofen, and that helped a great deal. With any luck he'll be well enough to go to school tomorrow.

Okay, time for me to sleep. Here's hoping when I wake up tomorrow that the Democrats still have a comfortable majority in the House. The Senate is still too much to hope for.

Voting

I forgot to say: On the way home from the doctor, we stopped and voted. I waited in the car with Sebastian while Teri went in, and then Teri waited while I went in.

I voted for Democrats, of course, in every case except one. I couldn't bring myself to vote for Patrick Kennedy. Sorry, but his drunken driving is unforgivable in my book, and damn it, there have GOT to be more qualified candidates than that. The Kennedy name is not some sort of patent of royalty. So I voted for the independent candidate.

The other place in which I surprised myself was a local race. As I mentioned a while ago, the local Democratic machine crushed a progressive Democratic incumbent; they used his cousin to beat him in the primaries. When it came down to it, I couldn't vote for Jon Brien. So I did a write-in for Todd Brien, that defeated progressive, instead. And I felt good about that.

We got an awful lot of phone calls again today. I suppose we're unlikely to get any more. You know, I'm going to miss that. It almost gave me a feeling of participating in my government.

Voting

I forgot to say: On the way home from the doctor, we stopped and voted. I waited in the car with Sebastian while Teri went in, and then Teri waited while I went in.

I voted for Democrats, of course, in every case except one. I couldn't bring myself to vote for Patrick Kennedy. Sorry, but his drunken driving is unforgivable in my book, and damn it, there have GOT to be more qualified candidates than that. The Kennedy name is not some sort of patent of royalty. So I voted for the independent candidate.

The other place in which I surprised myself was a local race. As I mentioned a while ago, the local Democratic machine crushed a progressive Democratic incumbent; they used his cousin to beat him in the primaries. When it came down to it, I couldn't vote for Jon Brien. So I did a write-in for Todd Brien, that defeated progressive, instead. And I felt good about that.

We got an awful lot of phone calls again today. I suppose we're unlikely to get any more. You know, I'm going to miss that. It almost gave me a feeling of participating in my government.

DEMS WIN SENATE

The AP has called it, and the story says that Allen will probably concede tomorrow unless Webb's 7,000-vote lead shrinks dramatically.

Barring some hellish, unforeseen surprise, the Democrats will take control of the Senate. The only fly in the ointment is that that whore, Joe Lieberman, will be essential to that control, and I think he's determined to screw the Democrats as savagely as he can while still remaining - nominally - in the party. Still, the Dems will control the committee assignments and agenda in BOTH branches of Congress.

We're not in the clear yet - oh, not by a long shot - but at the risk of sounding over-dramatic, I think America just took a good long step away from fascism.

I really wish there were some people around here to party with! And I'm the least-partying guy in the world.

DEMS WIN SENATE

The AP has called it, and the story says that Allen will probably concede tomorrow unless Webb's 7,000-vote lead shrinks dramatically.

Barring some hellish, unforeseen surprise, the Democrats will take control of the Senate. The only fly in the ointment is that that whore, Joe Lieberman, will be essential to that control, and I think he's determined to screw the Democrats as savagely as he can while still remaining - nominally - in the party. Still, the Dems will control the committee assignments and agenda in BOTH branches of Congress.

We're not in the clear yet - oh, not by a long shot - but at the risk of sounding over-dramatic, I think America just took a good long step away from fascism.

I really wish there were some people around here to party with! And I'm the least-partying guy in the world.