The luckiest man in America right now has to be John Kerry. Right or wrong, had the Democrats not taken control of Congress as had long been expected, the junior senator from Massachusetts would have taken the blame. Any chances of his getting the Democratic nomination for president in 2008 have evaporated, but at least his botched joke will be nothing more than a historical footnote.
It's funny how all those stories of voter suppression that abounded yesterday disappeared once we got the results.
As the party in control of the House of Representatives, the Democratic party has the right and prerogative to appoint its members as committee heads. Hopefully the party will act responsibly and not simply cave to political pressure from the Congressional Black Caucus and appoint Alcee Hastings as head of the Intelligence Committee, which has access to information that is most sensitive and vital to national security. The problem with Mr. Hastings in particular is that the United States Senate convicted him in 1989 of bribery and perjury, one of only six federal judges to ever leave the bench due to impeachment.
One of the good things about the Democratic Party win yesterday was that they will keep using their most recent slogan, "New Direction," which sounds a lot like "Nude Erection."
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