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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.
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.
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Where we shouldn't get "irrational exuberance," to borrow Greenspan's phrase from a few years back, is in thinking that the Democrats will impeach Bush or solve the Iraq problem in a way that doesn't leave a mess or otherwise accomplish miracles. Political and practical realities are going to restrain all that. Still, to borrow from the Ronald Reagan campaign, "It's Morning In America."