Mandate, Bitch
CNN and the official numbers are conflicting in Missouri and Virginia, but looking at the most up-to-date numbers in each race and taking into account momentum and the size of the leads, it’s hard to see this as anything but a Democratic win in the Senate. Cool.
And if the Republican’s 2004 campaign theme of “vote for us or your families will die” was a mandate for social security “reform”, Iraq, and further tax shenanigans, does that mean a Democratic victory is a mandate for universal healthcare, a living wage, and electoral reform? I think so.
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Fukin-a! We are Democrats in Missouri again, thank God! Let’s get ‘by the people, for the people’ back in the constitution again…quickly!
Comment by patrick — November 7, 2006 @ 11:37 pm
“does that mean a Democratic victory is a mandate for universal healthcare, a living wage, and electoral reform?”
Yes, it does mean that. Does it mean that the corporate-whore Dem leadership will fight for any of those things? I would bet not, but would be pleased to be proven wrong.
Comment by Rojo — November 8, 2006 @ 12:10 am
I’ll not, myself, waste my breath. The only hope in electing a bunch of Democrats is that when they do bad things, they will be acting hypocritically, which will make the opposition easier. It is much more fun to attack your nominal friends for insufficient fidelity to their ideas, than to defend yourselves from the honestly slung arrows of your real and unapologetic enemies. We have a busy, and disheartening, two years ahead of us.
Comment by Joe — November 8, 2006 @ 1:02 am
Wow. That was marvelously put, Joe.
Comment by briantologist — November 8, 2006 @ 10:12 am