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America's future is looking bright

November 06, 2002 ~ 8:22 p.m.

Just when I was feeling miserable and in need of some kind of comfort, came politics to the rescue. The results the American mid-term elections are in.

Out of the 36 gubernatorial elections up for grab, Republicans captured 20 of them (an impressive 55.6% of available governorships). Jeb Bush and George Pataki hung on to their respective seats in Florida and New York. New Hampshire voters demonstrated the ability to learn from their past miskakes by voting out the Demorcat Shaheen and electing Craig Benson. Mitt Romney, the man who gave Ted Kennedy a run for his money during the Massachusetts race for U.S. Senate in 1994, was elected governor of the Bay State.

The GOP recaptured control of the Senate and they also increased their numbers in the House. Elizabeth Dole, John Sununu, Norm Coleman and many great others are headed to Congress. It is only the fourth time since Lincoln�s presidency (the first ever Republican president) that the GOP have ever obtained House seats in a mid-term election. It�s truly a Grand Old Party again.

Voters in the states of Nevada, Arizona and Ohio showed a keen sense of social awareness by rejecting ballot initiatives in favor of legalizing � or otherwise decriminalizing � marijuana.

I know my country is in good hands for at least the next two years, and my home state in particular is in fine shape for the next four. (Who would ever have dared to dream that Republicans would occupy the governor�s seat for 12 years running in the People�s Commonwealth of Massachusetts?) One only hopes that Romney will stick around and not abandon ship for Cabinet positions the way Weld and Cellucci did and leave Boston in the hands of a manic Republican-in-name-only like Jane Swift. The job to which you have been elected lasts four years � got that, Mitt? Now go give Tom Finneran and his motley crew in the State House hell, there�s a good lad!

And the impact on Bush � his party on a massive rebound and his brother�s election victory for the Florida governorship � is phenomenal. Approval figures for Dubya consistently run in the high 60s. This, friends, is the best news of all. Maybe I took the Washington �peace� protest two weeks ago far too seriously. Maybe Americans aren�t the stultifying morons I was beginning to think they were after all.

With this election, Americans said that they approve of a country that won�t tolerate being bullied and will stick up for itself even if the rest of the world would rather treat our enemies to a ballet performance instead of the war they clearly started. They said, �you know, we rather liked that tax cut you gave us a year ago, and may we have more of our own hard-earned money?�

Americans have finally, for the most part, wizened up to the Democrats� trademark treachery. If anyone thinks for one second that the Democrats were really with the Bush administration in voting for tax cuts or the War on Terror, then you don�t know your politics. They knew which way the wind was blowing, so they sided with the Republicans on issue after issue, knowing that mid-term elections were just around the corner. If Americans had been foolish enough to belief their pathetic act, the Democrats, upon obtaining office, would have declared the War on Terror a failure, cut defense spending dramatically and treated us to the familiar bullshit smell of tax-and-spend philosophy all over again.

So for me personally, Dark Wednesday is nearly over, and I can put it as far behind me as my rolling walker and bifocals will allow. But for my nation, it was Rosy Tuesday.

Ah, roses. Much nicer smell than bullshit, don�tcha think?

� M.E.M.

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