Joe Katzman is trying to understand the selection of Gates for SecDef. Me, too. Bush has only made me unhappier with him (if that were possible) in the wake of the election.

Boy, the folks at Red State are less than impressed (to put it mildly) with the new pick for head of the RNC.

Transcript from Meet the Press:

MR. RUSSERT: Jim Jeffords of Vermont crossed over and joined the Democrats.

SEN. LIEBERMAN: Yeah.

MR. RUSSERT: And they gave

Glenn comments on Webb’s classy behavior.

I hope, if not expect, that this is why the Dems victory will be short lived.

If I were the administration, I’d try to talk Joe Lieberman into becoming Secretary of Defense, and then replacing him with an appointee by Connecticut’s Republican governor. Lieberman probably made a deal with Reid and Pelosi that he wouldn’t switch parties, but I’ll bet he didn’t promise to serve out his term.

…but I can sympathize with Montgomery Burns, who famously said, “Ironic, isn’t it Smithers? This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That’s democracy for you!”

Smithers: You are noble and poetic in defeat, sir.

…but I can sympathize with Montgomery Burns, who famously said, “Ironic, isn’t it Smithers? This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That’s democracy for you!”

Smithers: You are noble and poetic in defeat, sir.

…but I can sympathize with Montgomery Burns, who famously said, “Ironic, isn’t it Smithers? This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That’s democracy for you!”

Smithers: You are noble and poetic in defeat, sir.

If the Republicans lose tonight, they’ll have gotten what they deserved. I hope that at least they’ll do some soul searching.

Unfortunately, the Democrats will have gotten what they didn’t and don’t deserve–political power, in wartime.

We really need a new party.

N. Z. Bear (where does he find the time to program this stuff?) has set up a very readable page to track election results as they come in.