I suppose I should post something

I visited rikchik last night for his regular gaming event and he asked me if I was exploding yet, and I didn't know what he meant at first. I guess I forget that other people actually read all my angry political posts, or maybe that the people who do read and comment on them are the same people I see in person often.

So the House flipped colors easily, and according to dkos, the DSCC is declaring victory in the two hair's-breadth Senate races, thus making a Democratic Senate. There will likely be recounts, and the results are not likely to change. I support recounts where they make sense, and I am glad that the Democrats are (so far) graciously agreeing.

Last night's Colbert freakout was excellent and I'm sure it's all over YouTube severally by now.

I am actually feeling very tense and quiet right now. I will relax when things are official.

And then on to other things. I don't think that the Democrats will magically make everything right, but I do think that the removal of Those Republicans makes the pursuit of the specific things I'm interested in much easier. Or maybe makes them simply possible.

I nearly cried when I read news from around the world of other nations everywhere cheering the results and hoping this means that America will start to act like a reasonable ally again. And today I see the exact same stories linked from LGF, as proof that the Party of Appeasement has won control in order to kowtow to the evil part of the world (that is, everything that's not the USA).

This shows, to me, that our enemies didn't screech and dissolve in clouds of greasy black smoke in the morning light today. The fight continues.

Wha hoppa.

Well, that's it, then; the AP's called the Virginia race. The entire legislature is now Democratic-controlled.

I kind of can't believe it, to be quite honest.

I also note that, while lots of attention was given to voting "glitches" on Tuesday, there are no roaring accusations of mass fraud from any notable quarter. Everyone is actually being civil about it, and the executive branch immediately acknowledged the change with its own concession, giving Rumsfeld a long-overdue boot.

All this, too, runs against my predictions.

What just happened? Holy smokes. I am shaking a little, and I have a terrible headache, as the tension breaks ker-twanngggg. It's going to take a while for me to digest all of this.

I'll reiterate an earlier statement, mostly to help me stay focused: This doesn't so much accomplish anything as clear the path for real accomplishment. The Democrats might have a lot of the same problems as the Republicans, or any other class of deep-dish politicians, but their... polarization is so very different from the other party's. They less pass through messages that the others would block. No more anti-intellectualism or anti-science thinking, at least not at the party level. This is tremendous.

I have only lately, like in the last five years, started to learn to become politically active. Suddenly I no longer need to be stuck in resist, resist, resist mode, the only one I've ever known; suddenly, I can instead join a movement to get things done. If I'm not terribly convinced that the shiny new Democratic legislature actually knows what it wants to do with itself, maybe I can join with other people and start signaling some good suggestions at it.