Blue Tuesday

Election Tuesday makes CNN feel like ESPN during the NBA draft. Talking heads filling up space with words that they try to make sound meaningful. Results from contests across the country scroll across the bottom of the screen like sports scores so that your eyes can compete with your ears for sensory overload. Yet, except for political junkies, not much matters except the final tally.

I watched a bit. I'm going to make my kid watch. As I was telling my wife, I'm going to love little Jordan no matter what unless she becomes a Republican.

Anyway, as everyone with a pulse knows, Junior has been repudiated and the voters have called for a new direction. Much of the world rejoices at the hope for the return to reason over idealogical faith. Let's see how long it lasts.

I understand the instinct for revenge, the desire to impeach Junior for the many crimes he has committed over the last several years. But I'm also hoping that the new leaders will understand that they have to do things a different way. They have to bring about change through reason. They need to be ethical. They need to demonstrate compassion. It's hard to believe the Dems are going to be capable of any of that, but they have to be better than Junior.

Hopefully, Junior will not commit anymore harm in the next two years. Letting Rummy go was a good gesture to get things started. At least he will have to answer to someone now.