MetaChat - We won! We swept! Subpeona power, Bushie!

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08 November 2006

We won! We swept! Subpeona power, Bushie! It was a squeaker. It took all night. It'll take a month-long recount. But we swept the board and we've got subpoena power! So ends your "unitary executive"!

post by: orthogonality at: 02:30 | 21 comments

And for about thirty minutes, I was local hero for making a few phone calls and spending a little money. A minor contribution, but my little part.

For the first time since my greater contribution in 2004, I can relax!

Wooo hoo! Woo hoo! Woo hoo!

Yes!! I feel great!! Oh yes yess yess yesssss!

posted by orthogonality 08 November | 02:34

I'm mainly excited that my home state of NH went Dem in pretty much every way it could have.

"I cranked the big green Cougar along U.S. 93 again, four years later, to cover another one of these flakey New Hampshire primaries. The electorate in this state is notoriously perverse and unpredictable." -Hunter S. Thompson

Let's hear it for being notoriously perverse and unpredictable! WOO!

posted by Greg Nog 08 November | 02:35

Yay. This is a victory not just for Dems, but for the country. It puts the brakes on Bush's unrestrained abuse of power. I know some Republicans who are actually a little relieved, although still a bit nervous about what this might mean. Perhaps the monarchy is averted.

posted by caddis 08 November | 02:39

Congratulations, US bunnies!

posted by flopsy 08 November | 02:50

I'm happy, yes.

But, look, it's not like things are going to change. We all get that, right??

posted by mudpuppie 08 November | 03:03

Ortho, did the project you e-mailed me about come to fruition? Inquiring minds want to know!

posted by WolfDaddy 08 November | 03:06

WolfDaddyy, sorta, but not as much as I wanted it to. It was a Voter Protection project for the Ohio Dem part. (As various Mefites guessed.)

I was a bit upset it didn't yield more than it did, so I headed down to the Webb HQ, and had me a great day! (I only wish I'd had the time and money to do as much as I did in 2004. (Alluded to in various Mefi posts.))

posted by orthogonality 08 November | 03:11

Maaaaaaaaaa-caaaaaaaaaaaaa-caaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!

posted by orthogonality 08 November | 03:21

"it's not like things are going to change"

I wouldn't expect much to change. About all the House can do is cut Shrub's funding, not likely to be a popular idea.

As for subpoenas? Yeah, right. WH lawyers will tie those up for the next two years with every sort of objection imaginable.

This isn't just a lame duck president, it is two years worth of a lame duck federal government.

posted by mischief 08 November | 04:22

ortho, this former Ohioan thanks you!

posted by By the Grace of God 08 November | 06:11

I'm a little pissed off at the outcome of the Texas Governor's race. I'll settle down in a bit, I swear (where are run-off elections when I need them?)

posted by muddgirl 08 November | 08:24

MICHIGAN DICKS DEVOS!

posted by quonsar 08 November | 08:43

it is two years worth of a lame duck federal government.

Yes, but that is far better that two years worth of a rubber-stamp Federal government.

posted by Rock Steady 08 November | 09:39

Suck it, Santorum! Nobody likes you and your hate-based initiatives! Slink off into obscurity now, you sad, sorry little waste of flesh!

(I'm not a huge Casey fan, but lordy be, do I hate Rick Santorum.)

posted by jrossi4r 08 November | 09:40

I'm just happy that Frothy Mixture got his ass stomped in Pennsylvania.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 08 November | 09:42

It looks like my strategy succeeded. For the first time in over twenty years, I abstained from voting. As a result, none of the candidates I voted for lost.

posted by warbaby 08 November | 10:09

I am happy. Happy as in 'not sad'. Because you know I would be happy if there was a landslide. Which there wasn't. And there should be. If a Dem came out and threatened to chase them down back to their caves. But see? They were all snuggly-duddley on TV. So, OK, lets see. There is still hope. And Hillary is sure the smartest face out there. Regardless whether she is the best or not.

posted by carmina 08 November | 11:19

Watching local news coverage here in Texas was like living in Bizarro world -- nothing but smiling, fist-pumping Republicans amid showers of balloons and confetti as far as the eye could see. Sometimes, living in Austin, one has a tendency to forget how different things stand outside of this tiny bubble of ours. On the plus side, Austin's getting a new central library, thanks to the passing of Proposition 6. Woo hoo!

posted by Atom Eyes 08 November | 13:15

Methinks ortho is a wee bit excited.

As I said in the other thread I didn't vote, but the people I would have voted for won. Yippee!

posted by deborah 08 November | 14:59

I'm a wee bit excited too, despite the naysayers on Mefi. I just sent a long over-the-top email about how the Democrats are going to ruin the world to a guy that I am sorta friends with but mostly have constantly argued with for years and years on Usenet. He isn't even religious but as soon as it became a big GOP topic he started ranting about gay marriage and he does the same thing anytime they start bringing up abortion or anything else.

I'll probably get my email address blocked for a week or two until he calms down.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 08 November | 16:13

"two years worth of a rubber-stamp Federal government"

I think a Republican revolution meltdown fought out in public would have been more likely. The righty meltdown will still happen, I believe, but it won't be played out for the media.

posted by mischief 08 November | 18:37

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