You can call me Mr. Negativity

With my stomach full of victory steak, my clothes with the rich scent of victory cigar smoke, and with my breath, despite vigorous brushing, with the faint smell of victory champagne, I am currently in a relaxed, and satiated mode. After eight years of a failed president, I am absolutely thrilled with President-elect Barack Obama. My early prediction was we would know Obama was president by 10:00 Central time. At ten sharp, CNN projected Obama won. He did not just squeak by with a victory but instead won 364 electoral votes; McCain had 173. I will have several posts in the future about what I want out of Obama, what I think will happen, the future of politics, and more. However, during this post, I am going to talk about the bad news. Not everything went well last night and in fact several things happened that made me upset.

1. Besides voting for Obama, all of my other candidates I wanted to win... lost. Republicans had a very nice day in Minnesota. In district 3, my district, former Marine captain and Democrat Ashwin Madia lost a close battle with super conservative Eric Paulson. District 3 represents the Minneapolis suburbs. In addition, crazy woman Michelle Bachman narrowly defeated Democrat Elwin Tinkleberg, the former mayor of Blaine. In addition, after almost three million votes, Incumbent senator Republican Norm Coleman has a lead of only a few hundred votes over comedian Al Franken. It just proves how weak of a candidate Norm Coleman is if Al Franken barely beat him. This race will go to a mandatory hand re-count but it will take a miracle for Franken to win.

2. Besides Minnesota, there are three other close races. Democrat Jeff Merkeley and Republican Gordon Smith are locked in a tight battle in Oregon that could go either way. Probably the most slimy candidate, Republican Saxby Chambliss is in a tough re-election battle against challenger Democrat Jim Martin in Georgia. Chambliss has a slight lead but Georgia has an interesting rule that if neither candidate reaches 50% of the vote, they go to a run-off election. Here is where I am most upset. What the hell is wrong with the people in Alaska? Last week, 84 year old senator Ted Stevens was indicted of seven felonies. Despite that, he has a small lead over challenger Mark Begich. Are you kidding me Alaskans?!?!?! Seven f'ing felonies! If Stevens does get re-elected, which it looks like he will, it is almost a foregone conclusion that the Senate will expel him from congress. Even the Republicans will be happy to get him out of there as he is a black eye on the party. The problem of course is if Alaska is like Minnesota, if a senator dies, resigns, or is removed from the senate, the governor appoints a senator to finish out the term. I have a feeling Governor Sarah Palin will not appoint a Democrat. In fact, the early rumors are that she might appoint... herself.

3. Being Mr. Negativity today, I have more things stuck in my craw. There were several huge ballot questions that went against liberalism. Here are just a sampling of my favorites:

-Nebraska voted to ban all Affirmative Action.
-Three states had gay marriage on the ballot (Arizona, California, and Florida.) All three states voted to ban it permanently.
-Arkansas prohibited homosexuals from adopting children.

4. As usual, about twenty suburbs in the twin cities put questions on the ballots begging for more money. If I remember correctly, only two suburbs voted yes on the referendum to give the school districts more money. I will never understand why citizens don't find fully funding schools important. This is a shout-out to fiscal conservatives, if your school system is good, that increases the value of your house! I know you don't care at all about the children so think of yourself and your house value!

5. Now a note to Democrats... You have 56 senators, Republicans have 41. Throw Joe Lieberman out of the Democratic caucus, strip him of all leadership positions, do not campaign for him, do not send him any money. He has every right to be a senator and he has every right to run for office, but he has does not deserve to run as a Democrat. It is one thing to not vote for Obama. It is another thing to vote for McCain. But he has gone WAY out of bounds with the constant lying, misleading, and attacks on Obama. He's gotta go. Connecticut is obviously a very liberal state and I have no doubt that Democrats will be able to take the seat without Joe Lieberman. The only bad news is that Lieberman will not have to run for re-election until 2012.