Reply #6: I normally wouldn't say this..

[tedoll78]

but I'm going to enjoy watching the country limp through the next four years. No pity here.

There. I said it. In public.

People will try to dismiss my thoughts as anger (a stage of loss), and it may be true, but it's a valid feeling. I think I'm going to be in the anger stage for a long, long time. Particularly since voters appear to have not learned anything in the past four years. Hell, they might've even de-volved a bit in that time.

The U.S. has voted for the things that will bedevil us, and it is once again time for another Painful Lesson. No deaths or violence, please.. just plenty of economic hardship. That'll do quite nicely. I'll just sit back and watch with that wry "told-ya-so" grin on my face.

If John Paul Stevens can hang-on for another four years, I will look to him as a beacon of strength.