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.

Greg Mankiw has some thoughts. I don’t believe that high voter turnout is an intrinsically desirable goal, which is why I’m opposed to “motor voter” and other means designed to increase participation. If people aren’t willing to do a little work for their franchise, they don’t deserve it, as far as I’m concerned. The goal should be informed votes, with quality, not quantity. Of course, that wouldn’t work out well for the Dems.

From Lileks. He seems a little pessimistic (perhaps with good reason–we’ll find out as the sun goes down across the nation):

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The CPUSA has endorsed the Democrats. And the libertarians are supposed to? Really? You’d have to have a real bad case of cognitive dissonance.

No matter how atrocious they’ve been on so many issues. Just to wipe the smile off of Chris Matthews’ face. And of course, there’s hardly an issue on which I disagree with the Republicans on which the Dems wouldn’t be much worse.