"A little bit of excitement in the air," says local Boston WBZ-TV anchorman David Wade as Tiny, our alarm clock of choice, alerts us with nosebiting and loud purring that it's time to rise and greet the day. There's catfood to be served!
Soon we'll be heading out to exercise our franchise, "term limits by other means."
Waiting for sunrise, a new day dawning for God's "almost chosen people."
Then sit back with a hot cup of schadenfreude — Don't get cocky! — and enjoy the show as our friends on the other side of the aisle desperately try to shape the narrative using Ira Stoll's nine ways "the left will spin the election." (h/t Instapundit). Our favorites:
#4: The voters are ignorant.
#5: And, related, it was a communications problem. "You can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R," is how President Obama put it in his interview with the New York Times, conveniently absolving his policies from any blame.
#9: It was Bush's fault.
Update: Talk about excitement, this just in from Boston Herald columnist Margery Eagan, who reports Sean Bielat incursions in Barney Frank territory:
For 25 years I’ve lived in Brookline, where Republicans admit they’re Republicans at their own risk. Yet I haven’t seen so many lawn signs for a Republican since a few courageous matrons put a “Weld for Governor” placard on their lawn in 1990 and paid the price: social suicide. They were promptly shunned at Whole Foods. Their poor children sat alone in the cafeteria.
Let us hope the people will rise to save "our shining city"
Posted by: goomp | November 02, 2010 at 07:23 AM
Amen goomp. From your mouth to You-Know-Who's ear!
I voted at 6:15 a.m. with great enthusiasm - or at least as much as I could muster at that early hour. Wish I could vote in Nevada, California and the State of Washington. I'd also vote in Delaware if I could. But then - Virginia is my only choice!
Posted by: Gayle Miller | November 02, 2010 at 09:24 AM
Buddy and Rusty send their love to their "cousins" Purrrkey and Tiny and that handsome devil Earl Grey. They are guarding the homestead in Virginia and keeping a close eye on the birds in the yard! They are also busy recovering from Halloween night when Buddy was the star of the evening. He must have encouraged at least 25 children to pet him. He's such a distant, standoffish creature!
Posted by: Gayle Miller | November 02, 2010 at 02:21 PM
Lovely picture of Tiny. Just watching the returns, hoping for more good news.
Posted by: retriever | November 02, 2010 at 08:34 PM
You'll be happy to know your niece got out and cast her ballot for Murray(R) in VA-8 this morning. Not the most exciting race in the country, but we can cross our fingers every vote will count and earn him the victory!
Posted by: Heather Jameson | November 02, 2010 at 08:42 PM
Sadly it's looking like Frank has pulled it out. I always hold out more hope for my neighbors, and saving Scott Brown, I've always been disappointed. Crikey - I know people who lost their jobs because of Frank and I'm pretty sure they voted for him today. What's wrong with this picture?
Posted by: MartiniPundit | November 02, 2010 at 10:46 PM
Cute.
Posted by: jen | November 03, 2010 at 05:48 AM
Grrrr over Frank's salvage job. Pretty discovering results in my backyard, roo, but we have to rejoice over the House and conaervative progress elsewhere.
Posted by: Retriever | November 03, 2010 at 11:32 AM
Disappointing results too.
(fat fingers, predictive text, touchscreen iPhone...).
Posted by: Retriever | November 03, 2010 at 11:34 AM
I put up Bielat lawn sign and I don't even live in MA-04. lol It got attention; the good kind.
-VF
Posted by: VotingFemale | November 05, 2010 at 10:40 AM