Advice from Instapundit on the election outcome:

You don’t have to love the “other guy.” You don’t have to hold back on fighting against policies you don’t like. You don’t have to pull punches. But once someone is duly and legally elected president, you do owe some respect to the office and the Constitution. And to your fellow Americans.

I’m not an Obama fan, particularly, but a lot of people I like and respect are. To treat Obama as something evil or subhuman would not only be disrespectful toward Obama, but toward them. Instead, I hope that if Obama is elected, their assessment of his strengths will turn out to be right, and mine will turn out to be wrong. Likewise, those who don’t like John McCain or Sarah Palin might reflect that by treating Palin and McCain as obviously evil and stupid, they’re disrespecting tens of millions of their fellow Americans who feel otherwise. And treating a presidency held by a guy you don’t like as presumptively illegitimate suggests that presidents rule not by election, but by divine right, so that whenever the “other guy” wins, he’s automatically a usurper.

I concur. I have made no secret of my belief that Barack Obama is a fascist. But unlike most people, I don’t believe that fascists are intrinsically evil. I just think that they’re deeply misguided. If he wins, I expect to be fighting most of his initiatives, probably unsuccessfully, given the likely new composition of the Congress, but he will be, as every president has been before, my president, for good or ill. In four years, we’ll have an opportunity to replace him. It’s conceivable that in four years, I won’t want to, but it seems extremely unlikely. And the world will go on.

From Lileks:

If you are opposed to higher taxes on the rich – well, let’s back up. If you start out by questioning the definition of “rich,” you’re one of them. “Rich” is like “racist” – the surest sign of the guilty is the failure to admit your problem. If there are a lot of people who make less money than you do, you’re rich, and it doesn’t matter how you got where you are, or whether that poor fellow over there who works for Wal-Mart – and don’t worry, we’ll belittle him as a three-toothed inbred cousin-marrying NASCAR Oxycontin-popping gun-nut in just a minute – made some life choices that may have affected his earning potential; the existence of disparity is sufficient to prove that something is wrong. Or at least suggest that something must be done. As a wise man said: half the people in the country live below the median income level. Half. In this day and age.

So if you don’t want to help them – that’s what you mean when you oppose taxes, after all – you’re selfish. If you protest that you’ll have to spend less, or invest less, or save less, or give less to charity, well, you had better start making more money, then. Go on; out to the woodshed; squat over that straw nest and pop out some more golden eggs, or whatever it is you do. Incidentally, you should spend less, because you spend money on things you don’t need, and we don’t have to know what they are to know you don’t need them, just like we don’t have to visit your house or neighborhood to know that the former is too big and the latter too far away. You should invest less – put your money in Main Street, not Wall Street. (This does not include spending money on Main Street on things we think you don’t need. It means investing it. Consult a professional; we’re not clear on the details.) You shouldn’t save less, because saving is a virtue. Also, we can tax the interest.

Charity? Don’t worry about it. Taxes have the same moral power as charity. As Sen. Obama said in the parable of the peanut butter sandwich, sharing is called “Socialism” by some wingnuts. He was correct to scoff: It’s not whether you give of your own free will or whether you are compelled to give; it’s the giving that counts, not the rationale.

Actually, the most important part is the separation of you and your property; that provides a deep glow of inner satisfaction you cannot possibly imagine, unless you have experience at the communion rail handing out the wafers. It’s quite astonishing how the self can be so exalted by selflessness.

Plenty more where that came from, over at his new screedblog. And nobody screed like James.

Not that this is anything new:

Denying access to the minority (in this case Republican) poll watchers and inspectors is a violation of Pennsylvania state law. Those who violate the law can be punished with a misdemeanor subject to a fine of $1,000 and prison of between one month and two years.

Those on site as describing it as “pandemonium” and there may be video coming of the chaos.

Some of the precincts where Republicans have been removed are: the 44th Ward, 12th and 13th divisions; 6th Ward, 12th division; 32nd Ward, Division 28.

“Election board officials guard the legitimacy of the election process and the idea that Republicans are being intimidated and banned for partisan purposes does not allow for an honest and open election process,” said McCain-Palin spokesman Ben Porritt in a statement to Townhall.

Expect a lot of this kind of thing today. Especially in the Windy City.

Under the Obama regime, true followers of the one will tattoo their own arms.

Way to go for the Jewish vote…