Jill Stein will not be our president any time soon, but I'm still more than a little pleased this morning. Obamacare will survive. Flawed as it is, it's better than nothing, and if a few states decide to offer public options it may grow into something much better.
Elizabeth Warren defeated Scott Brown in Massachusetts, so in January ordinary people will have a real voice in the Senate, and I will have a crush on a sitting Senator. Bernie Sanders blew away the competition, despite major expenditure of PAC money against him.
Speaking of PAC money, I'm especially pleased that Sheldon Adelson, the Koch brothers, Linda McMahon, and all the mysterious rich people who are behind Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS threw away hundreds of millions of dollars to accomplish virtually nothing. Things remain pretty much as they were, most likely including political gridlock. Crossroads GPS couldn't even manage to oust my local Congressman in a tightly contested race, despite a spate of truly hideous attack ads.
Will we go over the fiscal cliff? I guess we have to wait and see. I'm pretty sure, though, that Obama will be somewhat less inclined to "compromise" than he may have been in his first term — and since the lame duck Congress will not be much different from the incoming Congress, we may get an early deal.
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