God bless Mark Foley...

And Tom Delay, Donald Rumsfeld and most of all, Jorge Bush. Thanks to these colossal dorks, Democrats are in power of both the House and the Senate. It's a beautiful day not only in American politics, but for Americans themselves. Finally we might be able to dig ourselves out of the dozens of wholes the elephants buried us in over the past six years. My only question now is, why couldn't this happen two years ago? Why is Bush still in office? Oh well, by gones. Now we can look forward to the future where we might start to make progress and move this country forward instead of moving it back a century.

In addition to the national scene, I am happy to know both the state House and Senate in North Carolina are in control of the Democrats. I don't know if this is a shift from before, but I was surprised to read moments ago that Democrats have a handy majority in both Houses. Maybe North Carolina can finally move beyond the Civil War and realize wow, we're in the 21st century. I'm sure it will take a while.

And speaking of states, I was saddened to learn Nevada, my previous home state and birthplace, fell victim to the Republicans, again. Which is strange but also no surprise because two years ago the Democrats outnumbered the Republicans by a 51% to 49% majority, yet Bush still won the state. This year, a new Republican was elected governor. That's sad because Jim Gibbons, the winner, is a colossal dork too. We're talking short bus. I know that's not nice but it's true. They also kept the same dorks in Washington -- Ensign and Porter. Ugh. Glad to be out of there.

At least on the national scene and where real politics happen the country has shed themselves of a lot of fat elephants. There will soon be a mass exodus of colossal dorks from Washington and I could be none the happier. I might even volunteer, don my little orange vest and guide them out of town.