As if you back up what I just said, here’s President Bush telling terrorists they shouldn’t be joyful at the results of the election.  Why would they be joyful?  Of course, because a vote for the Democrats is a vote for Osama bin Laden.

A good friend of mine who knows that I blog here asked what I planned to do now that Democrats are back in power.  "What will you have to bitch about now?" she asked.  Well, first of all, President Bush is still in office for two more years and there is quickly and election coming up; two years can pass by pretty damn quick.  Second, I don’t always agree with Democrats, so I’m sure there will be plenty for me to "bitch" about.  Third, this blog is not, and never has been, an anti-Republican blog; more of an anti-Bush blog.  There are still of lot of things to talk about that are important to me:  the increasing number of American who live in abject poverty and have no access to minimum levels health care, we still have men and women in Iraq, I’m still frightened as hell of al Qaeda, I’m still scared that we could be attacked again, I worry about the state of our economy, I worry about how my mother is going to pay for her medication, so on and so on.  Just because Dems are in office doesn’t mean all the bad things go away.

Moreover, Missouri is still under the control of Republican ideologues and while Claire McCaskill beat Jim Talent to be out Senator, Missouri still trends Conservative and is only becoming more Conservative.  We have a governor’s election coming up in a couple of years and I want nothing more than to see Matt Blunt booted out of office.  Not because he’s a Republican, but because he has been a terrible leader for our state.  Not to mention, Republicans have stranglehold on almost all of the state offices.  If there is one thing this election showed, Democrats are not down for the count in Missouri.  Many of them may have lost, but many of them also came pretty damn close.

According to outgoing — finally! — Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsefeld, the war in Iraq…wait for it…is not going "well enough or fast enough."  Well, no shit, Sherlock, too bad you couldn’t be this honest before the country turned against your president and got you booted out on your ass.

Let me just say, I am no fan of the idea that President Bush should be impeached.  Granted, there are any number of things he’s done that are impeachable offense, thing much worse that anything Richard Nixon ever did, but I just think that impeachment would distract the nation at a time when we need to focus on more important problems:  Iraq, terrorism, national security, poverty, health care, etc.  An impeachment would take time and effort away from all  that.  The man has two more years in office and is, for all intents and purposes, neutered.  Yeah, he still has his power to veto, but he can only play that card so many times before Washington and American will turn against.  I say, fix the problems and let the man live out his final two years in office.  Unfortunately, I think there is a movement starting to do just the opposite.

If there’s one thing that stood out, at least for me, in this last election it’s that Evangelical Christians did not vote lock-step with the Repuplican Party.  In fact, from what I’ve been reading, the Evangelical vote helped get many Democrats into office last Tuesday.  According to a Bliefnet poll, via Yahoo, fewer Evangelicals voted for Repuplicans this last election cycle; and it was Iraq and corruption that turned them.  I’ve always said Evangelical Christians are being used by Republicans, but the past few years have really brought that home for a many of them.  Sure, the Republican Party kisses the collective behind of Evangelicals, but what have they really accomplished on their pet projects of abortion and gay marriage.  Now, I damn well don’t support any of those issues, and Evengelicals aren’t going to get any love from the Democrats on those concerns, but on the broader, and in my opinion more important, issues of poverty, global warming, health care, etc., Evangelicals will always come out ahead with Democrats.  One of the interesting things about this survey is that abortion and gay marriage were second and third on the list of important issues this past election, and by a small margin.