Some women, following childbirth, suffer from what is termed
postpartum depression.  It is said to
arise from the combination of hormonal changes, psychological adjustment to
motherhood, and fatigue.

I am suffering from postpolitico exhilaration.  Perhaps, were I a Republican, I would have
depression, but my guy won!  Still,
although I may not be experiencing any hormonal alterations, I am most
definitely having to adjust to the very, very pleasant absence of political
ads, and the campaign fatigue is palpable.  So maybe I didn’t have a congressional candidate slide down my birth
canal, but even a guy can feel a gripping fatigue produced by the birth of a
new term.

Unfortunately, the post- part of all this will quickly fade to pre-
again, once the temporary election exhilaration wears away and the partisan
sniping re-commences.  After all, it
remains a GOP majority in the House, and why should any of us have reason to
hope that those idiots will be able to shoot their middle fingers at the
so-called Tea Party extremists and actually GOVERN like reasonable people.  When I saw the Tea Party woman interviewed on
CNN this morning, it was immediately clear that she has learned nothing from
(a) the election, or (b) the low favor in which the majority of the country
hold her cohorts’ intransigence. 

As for all those billions of dollars misspent on Mitt Romney
(Did I hear the CNN guy say $6 billion?), now I expect that, when the economy
shows more improvement, he will claim that it was from his PACs and special
interest groups, not from anything the President did.  Of course, all that money was directly
injected, not into the free flow of commerce, but into the coffers of the
producers and distributors of all those misleading  ads. 

Now, who will introduce legislation to compel the State of Florida to hold their
election two weeks prior to everyone else (but keeping the tally sealed) so
that -- maybe --we’ll get their results along with the rest of the states?