Stunned

Yeah, another little hiatus - but now it's time to get back to work.

The Republicans haven't stolen the election - but our electoral system remains dangerously vulnerable. The Patriot Act still stands. The Military Commissions Act of 2006 still stands. We're still losing good soldiers in a bad occupation that the Administration lied to get us into. New Orleans is still a disaster area. There's still the NSA spying on American citizens in direct contravention of FISA. And they're still dealing with the Chimpster's idea of bipartisanship - renominating Bolton and trying to get himself off the hook for wiretapping.

Now we will see if the Democratic Party will pull us back from the brink - or if they're perfectly OK with the shiny new fascism the Republicans instituted. Less netroots candidates won than I would have liked, and more corporatist cronies slipped through than I would have preferred.

The work isn't done yet, in fact it has barely started. But I'm stunned that things have changed this much, this quickly. Perhaps I can allow myself to hope that it's enough.