A great day for everbody

Being an ex-pat in Mexico makes it hard to keep up with all the news coming in from the elections, and the good news just keeps coming.

Rumsfeld out, democrats in. Charlie Taylor loses his grip on my beautiful mountains, O'Malley as governor of Mary Land, even our district 8 in Corncob has a teeny tiny chance of going blue. (but I'm not holding my breath, except when I walk though a tunnel here.)

And even just now I find out that Virginia is turning a nice shade of blue in the senate for sure.

For certain, everyone here seems just a little bit nicer to us now. The guy at our copy shop was ecstatic when we told him we´re democrats. K told him it was a good day for us, and he replied: It's a good day for everyone!

So is it? God only knows, but if D$ could come down from the chandeliers for just a moment, I'm sure he'd repeat his wisdom of a month ago: We'll still be going toward the cliffs, just at 50 mph instead of 150. And that's from a guy who really, really thought Kucinich had a chance.

Immigration reform is more likely, and maybe, just maybe there's some light at the end of the Iraq tunnel. Maybe. But even as they celebrate, the dems are falling back into form.

The blue party has always been fractious and a little neurotic, so compromises will surely have to be made, but that's for backroom deals late a night with boxes of pizza and gallons of whiskey. In public, can we get Pelosi to do more than offer a concesion speech at her victory rally?

We won! We surrender!