Let the Carping Begin

I stopped blogging when Scott Brown won his Senate seat, saying I was done with politics. The voters of Massachusetts had effectively spat on the grave of Teddy Kennedy, electing a frat boy because he drove a truck. I turned away, sort of, or at least was marginally less obsessed.  So instead of reading every blog, I read just a few, and watched ESPN, where everybody cares deeply about unimportant things, and where they spend hours having circular arguments about the same subjects over and over and over.  I found it restful.  My daughter told me on election night, when Brown went down to defeat, that I had to start blogging.  I told her I have little to say, which is sadly true.  I am currently entertaining myself watching the GOP full of blame about everything except their horrible and unpopular ideas (hmmm... are they really ideas??? or just code words to elicit fear???  Their basic platform is that the American people are so stupid, that they can be manipulated to vote against their interest by fostering resentment and suspicion.)  It is nice to see that the money people are furious that they coughed up so much money for so little.  What I found mystifying is that Romney supporters were surprised at the results.  Honestly, I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly the election was called and how decisive the victory was.  I thought the Repugs had caused so many road blocks and disenfranchised so many voters, and made it sooooo hard to vote, that it was going to take a long time to determine the outcome.  Imagine, if voting were easier how much larger the margin would have been.  The one blot on election night was Tweety, aka Chris Matthews, who earlier in the week had given an impassioned endorsement of Obama.  After Obama's victory speech, which I thought was gracious, moving and pitch perfect, Tweety could not stop harping on the fact that he hadn't thanked Bill Clinton or made a bigger deal about other Democratic victories.  Now I consider myself exceptionally partisan, but boy do I think that would have been a BAD idea.  Of course, if Chris has an idea he never gracefully lets the idea go, despite everyone else on the panel disagreeing.  His post first debate swoon but the more liberal pundits was not helpful to the dems.  My son in law loves the Rev.  Al, who was true blue throughout and wouldn't say one critical thing about Obama's debate performance.  Note the word "performance," with all the swooning, no one ever said Obama said stupid things or lied that night.  I know he went on to really disgrace himself later in the evening regarding his comments about what a blessing hurricane Sandy was, and although Matthews can be very annoying, I am not sure I want him off the air.