Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Some of the Bums are Gone

Well, sanctimonious prig Joe Lieberman is still around. And Orrin Hatch, of course was never in doubt. Jon Kyl easily won re-election.

But hard-core culture warrior Rick Santorum -- the man whose last name has now become a synonym for disgusting -- is gone. Don't let the door hit you on your way out, Rick.

George Allen is currently trailing by about 8,000 votes. But I wouldn't be surprised if the Republicans find a way to steal this one.

Discovery Institute shill Deborah Owens Fink lost bigtime.

All in all, it's a pretty good election. Science won. Fundamentalists lost.

4 comments:

John Farrell said...

Hip, hip, hooray!

:)

Anonymous said...

A good day for democracy, I guess the system sort of works - it may take time but eventually there is a backlash against extremism and incompetence.

Anonymous said...

The Democrat who beat Santorum isn't a liberal by any definition of the word.

Jeffrey Shallit said...

But he isn't an anti-gay bigot, or a supporter of intelligent design. I see that as progress.