This morning before getting up to get ready for work and later on the subway, I thought of all sorts of clever things to say about the results. Upon further reflection I realize that there are plenty of smarter folks already posting. Bringing up the likes of Orwell, Huxley and Sinclair Lewis probably wouldn't do much to make any of us feel better.

We can't even look forward to a balance in Congress to offset whatever mandate G.W. will surely feel he has to continue down the road to imperial dynasty. We are a one-party system with a barely competent 'opposition party' incapable of doing anything. The Democratic Party is useless as it now stands and it is now time for it to either totally remake itself into a progressive force for change or go the way of the Whigs and Bullmoose.

Maybe we can rebuild the Democratic Party at the local and state level, but as it is now it is obviously not in touch with enough of the national electorate to accomplish any of the goals we of the Left desire.

If the Constitution (as interpreted by the GOP) will still allow an election in four years it might be possible to put forward something other than a watered-down centrist.

The most frightening thing (and there are plenty to choose from) is that there will be no investigations into the wrong-doings of this Administration. Any that are currently underway will either be dropped or stone-walled until they are forgotten.

Hey, it was nice living in a democracy while it lasted, huh?