The Deluge?

Well, the polls are closed in Indiana and fittingly enough Dan Burton is the first race called.  Fittingly, because we can all anticipate the Burtonesque (and not in a cool, Edward Scissorhands kind of way) hearings that will swamp the House for the next two years.  Burton was the Guy who investigated everything about Bill Clinton.  I don't know if he'll be the Guy this time, but you know that there's a Guy waiting to start hearings on birth certificates, ACORN (just filed for bankruptcy), the New Black Panther Party, health care, BP oil spills, stimulus money, Shirley Sherrod, underwear bombers, Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan, Iraq, Bo's "accidents" in the Roosevelt Room, Michelle's right to bare her arms, Sasha's homework habits and Obama's Islamic tendencies.

Eating with my friend Kathleen on Saturday, she said that she hoped we DID get a crazy-assed GOP Congress, just to remind people once again how dysfunctional the GOP is when it's in power.

Maybe, but I can't say I'm sanguine about spending the next two years with a government unable to address substantive problems for fear of upsetting the torch carrying yahoos in the Tea Party.