we took the house! we took the house!

and what good, obedient babies you are, ousting santorum! well played, my lovelies. pats on the head all around.

postscript, nov. 8, 12:53 PM: the senate is tied! congratulations to montana's jon tester, whom the associated press's calvin woodward, strangely, describes only as "a [sic] organic grain farmer who lost three fingers in a meat grinder." and largely unrelated (though no less sincere) congratulations to my old schoolmate rory waterman, who is now enjoying the peace of mind that accompanies citizenship in bernie sanders's maply, cow-covered socialist utopia.

post-postscript, nov. 8, 1:11 PM: while i'd love to do a little dance about rumsfeld's resignation, i know next to nothing about his successor. i mean, there's, you know, this:

The Gates leadership team [in the CIA in the 1980s] proved itself responsive to White House demands, giving serious attention to right-wing press reports from around the world. The Reagan administration, for instance, wanted evidence to support right-wing media claims that pinned European terrorism on the Soviets. The CIA analysts, however, knew the charges were bogus partly because they were based on “black” or false propaganda that the CIA's operations division had been planting in the European media.

The attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II in 1981 was viewed as another opportunity to make propaganda points against what Reagan called the “evil empire.” Though the attack had been carried out by a neo-fascist extremist from Turkey, conservative U.S. writers and journalists began to promote allegations of a secret KGB role. In this case, CIA analysts knew the charges were false because of the CIA’s penetration of East Bloc intelligence services.

But responding to White House pressure in 1985, Gates closeted a special team to push through an administration-desired paper linking the KGB to the attack. Though the analysts opposed what they believed to be a dishonest intelligence report, they couldn’t stop the paper from leaving CIA and being circulated around Washington.

doesn't bode very well. we'll have to wait and see, i guess.