So the democrats won the senate modulo recounts but the AP was confident enough to call montana for the dems and they have an 8,000 vote leg up in virgina.

This is an incredibly encouraging result but before you start cheering about the american voter ‘getting it’ take a look at the new crop of propositions across the country banning gay marriage. Or the overwhelming success of the horrific sex offender measure here in california. I’m hoping that the sex offender measure is declared unconstitutional as it puts children at more risk while vindictively targeting many reformed individuals, some of which have committed only minor crimes (dating someone a bit too young) many years ago.

Also the oil tax measure didn’t pass. It’s a shame since we need higher priced gasoline and in contrast to what all the commercials imply it would be a national security benefit to keep all our oil and burn foreign oil while we can. On the other hand I was always skeptical of the oil tax initiative because of the idiotic provision which created state oversight power to make sure oil producers couldn’t pass increased costs along to the customer.

Unexpectedly my favorite initiative, legalized marijuanna in Nevada, failed by a large margin.

Weird Bush just decided to fire Rumsfield and admitted to lying about denying it a few days ago.