Warm up the bus...

...Cause somebody's going home.

Somebody ought to tell the McCain campaign to "warm up the bus", cause the game is over. When Colin Powell speaks, the election God listens. Even accounting for latent racism in this election, Obama blue is turning even the reddest states purple. This is accompanied by a probable *gulp* Democratic supermajority Legislature. Call me too Jeffersonian, but I feel that a supermajority sounds like something from the Empire Strikes Back. (Actually, Empire Strikes Back will be the Republicans in two years...they act more like the Empire anyway. So let's call this "Return of the Jackass").

I trust Obama as President 10 times farther than I trust Reid or Pelosi to run a supermajority for 2 years. Will Obama be a strong enough leader to temper the Party's pet agenda?
They say that this election marks a turning point in the U.S. political culture--perhaps a turn towards 'market-friendly socialism'; replacing Bush's entirely mislabeled 'compassionate conservatism' aka: "Eat, Drink, (War), and Be Merry, for tomorrow I suicide the Republican Party"

Either way: market crash, credit crises, inflation, rising unemployment, Global recession, wars, rumors of wars, Democratic Supermajority...tell me if you've heard this before.

Ah yes...the Great Depression and the New Deal. The list of the surviving New Deal programs read like a rap sheet of modern mega money mismanagement: Social Security, Federal Housing Commission and....Fannie Mae!
(PS...the New Deal wasn't very successful...in fact, New Deal legislation was largely repealed during WWII. The only proven effective answer to the Depression is a good dose of disgruntled Germans starting a Global War which decimated all America's economic rivals and, in just 4 years, grew the US military from 240,000 men to over 8.2 million and many times that employed in U.S. warmaking factories.)

This time could be different however, in spite of the media drool and blubbering, Obama seems to be something special...as well as, in case you haven't heard, being black...which, in itself is not a qualification, but it is, as a friend remarked, "an inspirational step for America." In this time of patriotic pessimism and insecurity, 'an inspirational step' might really mean something.

Anyhow, McCain ought to just hope that he beats Republicans worst ever electoral showing (1938) where they lost 57% to 39% to Democrats and (472-59 electoral votes).