This Ain't No Party

Whew. Those asinine initiatives on the California ballot got themselves Terminated last night, and our Governator is looking less like Conan the Barbarian and more like a tired old man. There's fight left in him, I imagine, but he lost on parental consent for abortion, lost on executive domination of redistricting, lost on written permission for union monies to be used in elections, and lost on the five-year wait for teacher tenure.

(I'm not too happy that the loss on prescription drug benefits is drawing next to no coverage, but you can't have everything.)

And, of course, we're all delighted that Democrats won in New Jersey and Virginia, despite a lot of Republican smear tactics and one last-minute Bush appearance. Yeah, Democrats slung their share of mud, too, but what do you expect? Remember what happened to the war hero John Kerry when he tried to maintain some moral perspective in the face of Swift Boat Veterans for "Truth"?



Anyway, there's Kaine of Virginia on the left and Corzine of New Jersey on the right. Congratulations, boys.

And what's the result? Progressive pundits loudly proclaim that this is the end of Republican domination - that the American people are sick of this administration's corruption and bullying. Conservative pundits (and Scott McLellan) loudly proclaim that these election results mean nothing, since (for example) New Jersey "leans to the left" anyway and Kaine in Virginia ran on a conservative platform.

And blah, blah, blah.

I'm a liberal and delighted with these results, but it's a long time until November 2006. Don't let's let the girdle out now, folks.

Benshlomo says, We won. They lost. Next.