Post Election 2010: November 3, 3:07 AM

Most of the results are in, and I’m out of both gin and vodka. I ran out of mixer about two hours ago and since then I have been mixing citrus vodka with sugar free, orange Metamucil in a drink I call the Republican victory. It’s hard to swallow and will give me the runs later.

My wife just managed to hit me with two horse tranquilizer darts—I knew I shouldn’t have stood still at the computer—so I will have to make this brief.

For the rest of the week we will all have to hear all the talking heads clacking about why the voters tossed Democrats aside like used Kotex. Boy that is hard to figure out—it was the jobs and the economy—period. Oh yeah, and the Democratic coalition that swept President Obama into office stayed home and swept their floors.

Tea Party types may rant about the deficit, healthcare, and the size of government, but the voters expected Obama to perform some kind of economic miracle producing jobs (preferably without more spending) and pulling the economy back from a near depression almost overnight—oh and it would have been nice if he could have cured Washington of its partisan disease at the same time. That didn’t happen and the Democrats in congress took it in the shorts.

According to CBS News exit polls, 61% of the voters feel the country is on the wrong track, but there was no agreement on what the right track is. According to the poll, 39% of voter want the next congress to focus first on reducing the budget deficit, while 37% percent want Congress to increase spending to create jobs (and you elected Republicans for this?) and 18% want Congress to focus on cutting taxes.

Oh, and on the Bush-era tax cuts, 39% want them continued for everyone, 37% want them continued only for families who earn less than $250,000 a year, and 15% who are serious about cutting the deficit want Congress to let them all expire. (With the Republicans owing big debts to the wealthy who financed ads attacking the Democrats, don’t hold your breath for that one. Look forward to hearing a lot about the death tax too.

It all reminds me of an old western movie where a posse has run out of water and everyone has a different solution and many of them wander off into the desert alone to die. I can’t help but think the country would be better served if that would only happen to this new crop of Congresspersons.

The tranqs are kicking in and I am fading fast. Getting sleepy. To sleep perchance to dream—oh metaphorical god no—I think I see Hunter S. Thompson coming for me. He doesn’t look happy. Arggh!