Best Wookiee Life Day Ever

As Theron put it,

According to my obscure knowledge of the Space-Time Continuum, I’ve determined that today is, once again, the annual Wookiee Life Day… BEST LIFE DAY, EVER.

House: won.
Senate: won.
Rummy: sacrificed.
Santorum: out.
(However, Lieberman got in, so it’s not all sunshine. Not quite.)
Republicans did not make a single gain in the Senate, House or Gubernatorial elections. Check out the nifty maps here. Heavy blue means a Democrat gain, heavy red means a Republican gain. Except there isn’t any heavy red.
As part of the world living in the shadow of US governmental decisions but unable to vote for ’em, can I just say, cheers guys. Good on yas.
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And to think only a few years ago I was convinced there was no difference of note between Republicans and Democrats. How naive I was, not then realising that the Republican party had actually been captured by a power centre that was both batshit insane and utterly ruthless. The Dems are just your typical deeply corrupt compromised politicians, and I suppose we have to be thankful for that.

5 thoughts on “Best Wookiee Life Day Ever”

  1. ‘Political Lines, Invisible Lines’
    Deer and moose and elk
    Walk back and forth.
    People walk back and forth.
    There are a lot of places
    You don’t even know
    Where the border is.
    That’s the way it is.
    Feb. 23, 2002, interview with the editor of The Sunday and Daily Telegraph
    ‘Happenings’
    You’re going to be told lots of things.
    You get told things every day that don’t happen.
    It doesn’t seem to bother people, they don’t—
    It’s printed in the press.
    The world thinks all these things happen.
    They never happened.
    Everyone’s so eager to get the story
    Before in fact the story’s there
    That the world is constantly being fed
    Things that haven’t happened.
    All I can tell you is,
    It hasn’t happened.
    It’s going to happen.
    —Feb. 28, 2003, Department of Defense briefing
    ‘Gerbil’
    I feel like a gerbil.
    I get on that thing
    And I run like hell.
    May 17, 2002, interview with Armed Forces Radio and Television Service
    ‘Clarity’
    I think what you’ll find,
    I think what you’ll find is,
    Whatever it is we do substantively,
    There will be near-perfect clarity
    As to what it is.
    And it will be known,
    And it will be known to the Congress,
    And it will be known to you,
    Probably before we decide it,
    But it will be known.
    —Feb. 28, 2003, Department of Defense briefing
    http://www.slate.com/id/2081042/

  2. Every time I give up all hope for the US politically they come up with something like this to keep me interested.

  3. Feels great to see the evildoers fallen.
    However, wouldn’t it have been instructive (even fun) to see Rumsfeld in front of Democrat-run Congressional Committees?
    Well done on coining the phrase “batshit insane and utterly ruthless”, I promise to use it.

  4. The problem is that this really is the lesser of two evils. I have no confidence in the Dems doing the right thing – only in them doing a less obviously wrong thing, and less stridently.

  5. The last paragraph is importantly correct. Do you want the same kind of government the “best” nations have, or the fucking Empire led by Darth Dipshit?
    Anyways, I need you to read a graphic novel I have come unto called Uncle Sam (or something to that effect…)

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