This is what you wanted, America

And so it begins. In his com­ments today, George W. Bush said:

>“We’ve worked hard and gained many new friends, and the result is now clear — a record voter turnout and a broad, nation­wide victory.”

With 51% of the vote, GWB sees a “broad vic­tory” hand­ing him a man­date to tackle all the planks of the GOP plat­form. Worse, that sen­ti­ment is echoed by his sup­port­ers. The rest of us? The other _55 million_ cit­i­zens who voted against him? Well gosh, folks, you lost. With the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives com­fort­ably held by the GOP, with the Sen­ate headed for a 55/45 split in their favor, with about 30 of the gov­er­nor­ships in the coun­try, and with the impend­ing death/retiring of more than one Supreme Court Jus­tice… I don’t know that there is any­one to stop them.

See: [White House: Debt Ceil­ing Must Be Raised](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=223596 “Boy, I didn’t see that com­ing, did you?”)

See: [Bush declares ‘broad victory’](http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/03/election.main/index.html “I feel… dis­en­fran­chised”)
and: [Bill Ben­nett, moralist](http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/bennett200411031109.asp “‘Pres­i­dent Bush now has a man­date to affect pol­icy that will pro­mote a more decent soci­ety, through both pol­i­tics and law.’”)
and: [Adam Yoshida, ultra conservative](http://www.adamyoshida.com/2004/11/four-more-years-aka-take-that-you-sons.html “‘They lost, now they can sit in the back of the bus.’”)