Day: October 24, 2006

I already know how i’m going to vote.  For those who know me, you can probably already guess which way it is going to be.  I’m glad to hear that the discontent in the electorate will (hopefully) be represented in the results of this year’s election.  (There’s a great line from a Northern Exposure episode about “the peacable transfer of power” that pretty much sums up my feelings about the system when it works).  What’s got me peeved is how smug the Dems are being about the polls and the likely changes in Congress.  NRP is practically dancing with glee about the race in Texas for Tom Delay’s old district probably going to the guy that Delay’s gerrymandering drove out of office a few years ago.  I think it’s fine to be pleased, fine to anticipate success and fine to appreciate irony, but do you have to be smug?  Honestly?  A posture of quiet confidence and eagerness to get down to business would suit the country much better than “excessive celebration in the end zone”.