katlaughing, we lived through Reagan/Bush too. Nothing changed this morning--as John Stewart said last night on Comedy Central when he was interviewing McCain--so, the Congress looks pretty much exactly the same as it did yesterday. Things will, however, be much clearer to all of us once the smoke clears in few more weeks. The Democrats will either block the Bush agenda in the Senate with some serious filibustering, or they won't.

If anyone is in serious trouble with their credit card debt, I would definitely consider filing bankruptcy ASAP. One thing that is likely to get pushed through by the lame ducks is the bankruptcy bill. Wellstone was the only senator to be openly against it, and with him gone and the Ventura duck coming in, I'd say nobody was a bigger beneficiary of the Wellstone death than the banking industry pushing so hard to get this bankruptcy bill passed. Maybe we'll finally see a call for debtors prison from the Republican fundamentalists. With our civil liberties thrown out the window by the Patriot Act, maybe we'll see the fascists rounding up and enslaving the unemployed, the work to welfare mothers, and the homeless, and putting them all in the workhouse--just to get the economy roaring for business again, don't you know. It's for their own good, they'll say. They aren't good citizen consumers and worker drones.

The '00 decade is looking just like the last few decades that preceded it. Nothing has changed, except for the football teams in the Superbowl.

Anyone who thought this was such an important election simply bought into the media war drumming for ratings.