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"I'm going to try and write this without gloating,..."

It's gonna be kinda hard to gloat when the deficits drive up interest rates again. Gloat over a replay of the 80's , but with a Hot War budget and *no* corporate cop-on-the-beat.
Hah!
They won't be able to make enough length of rope to what will be the a thoroughly fleeced-into-poverty electorate after buying into the bill-of-goods snakeoil the Bushites just sold them.

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" Bush and the Republicans did an amazing job of pulling off this election. "

Need i reminf you of that famous H.L.Menkin quote about "underestimating" the level of intellignece of the electorate?

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" Here in West Virginia... "

Hope ya still love your Bobby Bird and re-elected Johnny Rockafellar. Imagine how much more impoverished W.Virginny would be without the Federal pork they brought which is easily dwarfed by what now retiring Texas Repub Phil Gram pumped intoTexas ( home of Enron and trough for the most largesse from the S&L Fed Bailout from the Reagan/Bush 80's with just a Repub-controlled Senate ) by the 100's of billion$ during his tenure.

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" It was close, but we prevailed. And so it went across America."

Uhm , "across America"? This gloating has just gone to yer head, there, partner.

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"Those who would call him "Shrub", etc. cannot see that, due to some combination of times and talent, he has moved the Country. "

Oh Puh-lease. I suppose Republican "machine politics" and overwhelming cash warchest while distracting with war-talk voter attention away from the corporate crime wave amidst a sagging economy that the Bushites haven't demonstrated that they possess "Clue One" about dealing with as we watch the changing out of the hand-picked Bush economic team just started with Harvey the Pit.

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"He obviously does not let the polls guide his thinking or he would have stayed nestled in the White House, keeping his political capital to himself for the race two years from now. But he went to the people, campaigned vigorously, and won."

Excuse me , but this fantasy -fed Bush-worship is about as soft-headed as the Clinton-worship last time out. Bush *had* to vampaign in order to try an influence a majority in the Senate so his rulers can steamroll their agendas through. The poeple Bush answers to wouldn't allow him to just sit in the White House. They want an end to all these investigation , forget enforcement ,of integrity in "corporate governance" and accountability. They want a War nudget that spends like there's no credit limit while *not* paying for it but , instead ,passing it on to later generations like the Cold war debt they most profitted from which we will all still have to pay for on top of this new round of deficit spending. This is the *borrow & spend* Republicanism all over again and guess who gets the lionshare of that largesse and guess where you and I fit in that financial cosmology?
For you not to see this definitely means that gloating is hardly what this election means.

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"The biggest mistake they will make is to fail to see that they were beaten by the better man."

You mean the more effective money & muscle machine.
Gloating tends to obscure this kind of clarity.
Wait until the cheap thrill gloating stops and the bills start skyrocketing.
We'll talk then.

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" But as a ticket-splitting nominal Republican, who believes in a woman's right to choose, and that Constitutional rights are insured with parallel responsibilities, I am quite pleased with yesterday's results. "

Too bad you believe that those admirable principles ( the Constitutional ones of which I thorouhgly share ) are represented by this now one-party gov't ruled by human natures whom are not immune to the warning about "absolute power corrupting absolutely"
Gloat over that?

Think again, will you please.
I'm praying.