Flying Pink Unicorns

A long national nightmare is coming to an end

Election day is tomorrow. Tomorrow night Obama will be declared the winner and McCain will concede. Democrats will gain a bunch of seats in the Senate and House. And press articles will declare the end of the Reagan "revolution."

In today's McCain stump speech (in Tennessee, very near the Virginia border) (delivered with great passion to a very enthusiastic crowd), he had the following applause/boo lines:

1) Obama has said that any new coal fired power plants would bankrupt the utility that built it. McCain, of course, is for such new plants, as they will have clean coal technology.

Well, given that the world has a fever (as Al Gore famously put it) building more coal power plants is the very first thing the doctor ordered us NOT to do. Good for Obama.

2) McCain pointed out that Obama said this to, "Guess who? A San Francisco newspaper." The crowd booed. No only in GOP land are certain people more "American" or "Pro-America" than other areas. Of course, the pro America areas are the red states, or at least the red areas of blue states.

This form of politics has poisoned our body politic for far too long, and tomorrow is probably the last day we're going to see it at the national level for quite a while, since it is finally failing.

I note that which areas are the least pro America by this standard? New York State, New York City. California. LA. San Francisco. Illinois/Chicago. Baltimore. Washington DC. Northern Virginia (explicitly from Palin). Philly.

Know what these areas have in common besides being very very blue? They're rich. That is, successful. They pay WAYYYY more in taxes than they get back in government services. Way, way more. They, to borrow a phrase, redistribute wealth, and disproportionately to red states and red areas of blue states. They have lower crime rates than the rest of America. Yes, they have more gays. This is bad why exactly? Well, in warped, twisted GOP thinking, that's bad.

3) Joe the Plumber. Democrats don't care about people like Joe. We do. Well, if huge tax cuts to the rich, the super rich and the Bill Gates rich show caring for Joe, well the GOP cares all right.

I could go on, but it wouldn't be any more productive for me as it would be for you.