Day: November 8, 2006

From CNN.com:

Bush admitted he was disappointed with Tuesday’s results and took his share of responsibility as party leader.

But he looked forward rather than back. “The message yesterday was clear: The American people want their leaders in Washington to set aside partisan differences, conduct ourselves in an ethical manner and work together to address the challenges facing our nation.”

What a lot of us really want is your ass shown the door, Mr. Bush. But you weren’t up for re-election, so we had to settle for the next best thing.

And man, are you ever one to talk about nonpartisanship and ethics. The biggest challenge facing our nation is how to undo all the damage you’ve caused it since taking office.

I’d love to think this election was about wanting the Democrats back in power. But I realize it was much more about desperately wanting Republlicans like Bush out of power.

The Democrats win the House. The Democrats win the Senate. Donald Rumsfeld resigns. It’s a sign of what this country has become lately that I honestly have to ask the question, “Am I hallucinating?”

Gosh, I sure hope George W. Bush wasn’t lying about anything else…

BUSH: You and Hunt and Keil came into the Oval Office and asked me to question one week before the campaign. Basically, are you going to do something about Rumsfeld and the Vice President? The reason why is I did not want to make a major decision in the final days of the campaign. The only way to answer that question, and get it on to another question, was to give you that answer.

Link, with video, via Art Machine.

More to the point, actually, I hope this means he is going to do something about the Vice President, too.

Some random thoughts on the election:

  • Karl Rove must have flunked “the math” in high school. That, or he looked it up on “the Google“
  • I guess Rick Santorum will have plenty of time to devote to re-reading J.R.R. Tolkien. (That, or the man-on-animal sex he seemed to find so fascinating…)
  • The main reason cited last night for Joe Lieberman’s re-election was experience. Lieberman has it; Lamont didn’t. So the voters don’t necessarily like you Joe, or your politics, or your cozying up to the Bush administration. But they figure, hey, at least he’ll know how the copy machine works.
  • Winning? Much, much better than that other thing.

Oh, and Donald Rumsfeld has stepped down. I may actually cry from happiness here.