While The Professor is not overly fond of Obama’s presidency with its love of killing via robot, the reluctance to do anything about the Banks and Wall Street to prevent what happened from happening again (we read that Wall Street is trying to bundle Rents in a manner similar to all those mortgage securities – what could possibly go wrong with that we wonder) and its all too clear desire to start the gutting of social security – we are pleased at the result, if for no other reason we will never have to deal with One Mitt Romney as a candidate for anything ever again. Rarely has a more despicable human being run for high public office – his self-centered, amoral, willing to say or do anything to get his way, clearly despising the great unwashed and his ‘yeah I’m lying my ass off what are you going to do about it?” manner kept stepping on the Professor’s wick.
Now while the weeping and rending of garments on the Republican side begins one of the things that utterly amazes me was that historically this election was theirs to lose. The economy is and remains stagnant with at best moderate recent growth (which may or may not last) the left was dispirited by Obama’s many many attempts to placate the right wing and the corporate powers that be – mostly via the means of hippy punching or tossing the left under the bus and the country was looking for a new direction. This is not a confident nation by any means these days – the signs of decadence and decay are visible to the dullest of observers and a change in course was wanted.
What the GOP gave us instead was Mitt Romney the world’s most insincere insurance salesman who reminded too many people of the guy who laid them off a while back when the company was downsizing. Mitt who slanged 47% of the American working class while at an event sponsored by a multi-millionaire who was also known for hosting sex parties. Mitt’s temporary boost from the first debate did not last (it will be one of the great unknowns of this election as to what Obama was thinking prior to the first debate and what would have happened had the Obama that had shown up at last two debates had been there for the first debate) and I do think that Sandy showed the utter shallowness of Mitt’s soul to one and all. Not that that changed folks minds it just made folks who were voting against him more determined than ever to a) vote and b) get other folks who felt the same out there voting.
This is course not to slight the effect of Ann Romney’s aggrieved entitlement and contempt for the help had. Ann was supposed to the person who humanized Romney in the end she became a joke about a horse.
The Professor welcomes Alan Greyson back to the House and wishes Allen West good luck in whatever insane thing he plans on doing now. Digging your way to china with a spoon is our suggestion.
Ms. Bachman alas retains her seat by a narrow margin. But as this was the first year she faced any real opposition for re-election the prospect of a Bachman less House in the near-future looks good.
Going forward, not a single GOP candidate for anything will ever answer a question about rape.
Nate Silver by virtue of going 50 for 50 on his picks of the states is the big winner of the night. The pundits and talking heads reacted to him like vampires confronted by garlic. They made faces waved their arms and tried to pretend he wasn’t there. The existence of Nate and his damned accuracy should mean that these folks will need to actually do some leg work when they talk about what America thinking rather than simply making it up but the Professor is not optimistic that will occur. George Will, for example, is already a prominent climate change denier – one hardly thinks that this little slap in the face by reality will change his way of doing things.
Still the internet’s vast capacity to retain things out there means that their absurdly wrong predictions are theirs for always and always ready for use when they attempt to be sage wisdom dispensers.
Karl Rove on air tantrum when Fox News called Ohio for Obama is an instant classic.
All Donald Trump needs now are a cap and bells and some pointy shoes and he can be America’s court jester.
Bill O’Reilly’s lament over the end of the White Establishment is also a moment of high sick comedy. Between wars, sucking up to the rich and Pat Boone the end of the White Establishment can’t happen soon enough.
And of course the real work begins now with a GOP dominated House bound to continue the hissy fit they began in 2010 and just enough beltway types whispering in the president’s ear that putting the grand bargain together now – before the new more progressive Senate is installed is the way to go. It never really ends alas.
But for the moment it’s a very good day.
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