Will they play "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow" somewhere tomorrow night? Who knows now? No one. But we can guess:
1. Democrats 49, Republicans 49, Independents 2.I take no responsibility for pentametre or mathematics.2. Democrats 239, Republicans 196
3. A Sonnet
"Let me not put it to you in any other way:[Applause, Exeunt]
In this campaign I earned great capital
And I shall spend it in my way"
so said the President, though results have been less than actual."It is my style," quote he but what could he mean?
To govern is not good göv
Which will not alters when alteration's need finds,
Nor bends with the removable to remöv.This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, I say
Needs greater care than the care offered by
characters like Sherwood, Ney, Foley or DeLay,
or sure-shot Cheney, or sub-Mars Rummy. Why?The style of an unmoved President may be failing
If war, the state, and treasury are judged all ailing.4. Democrat Spitzer 72%, Republican John Faso 22% percent.
5. Webb 48.2%, Allen 48.1%, other 3.7%
Comments
Flea - November 6, 2006 7:02 PM
You are in for a shock with those House numbers.
Flea - November 6, 2006 7:02 PM
<i>Exuent</i> Flea
Alan - November 6, 2006 7:06 PM
I have now exeunted myself. As for the House, I merely mimic the votemaster. Otherwise I have been restrained, especially by the mannerism of the sonnet form.
Gordo - November 6, 2006 8:06 PM
The pundits have been all agog with the possible boost to Dubya's number from the pre-ordained death sentence for Saddam. I think just enough of the populace has begin to awake from it's 6-year nightmare that the BUshies are in for a spanking.
That said, I was discussing this with an expat American prof at work. What we can't figure out if paralyzing the executive branch will help things much. Certainly not the noise level in Washington. It will be deafening.
Rather apropos, I think, that my captcha for this was 'pzuzls'. ;-)
Ben (The Tiger) - November 7, 2006 12:41 PM
"<i>Exuent</i> Flea"?
Who provides the plural in that one? Flea and his multiple personalities? Flea and his entourage?
-- the local Latin pedant.
Ben (The Tiger) - November 7, 2006 12:42 PM
Also, it should be "<i>Exeunt</i>".
Ben (The Tiger) - November 7, 2006 12:43 PM
Alternatively, if Flea remains in the singular, it could/should be, "<i>Exit</i> Flea."
Alan - November 7, 2006 12:50 PM
I may have left Flea looking alarmingly disheveled Latin-wise as originally I had written "exunt" out of typographical rather than grammatical error, me having critically studied first year Latin to a "B" in 1984-85. He corrected me but left his own typographical which remained after my own correction. My quandry in verse goes thusly:<blockquote class="smalltext">Was that rude of me,<br>To not correct the Flea?<br>Or would it be otherwise,<br>To presume the absence of a pun Latin-wise.</blockquote>That being said, I assumed that the applause was sourced in the plural and I can only assume that the Flea arrives and departs with an entourage so in both cases "exeunt" would be correct.
Ben (The Tiger) - November 7, 2006 12:54 PM
A reasonable assumption, I suppose...