Every Silver Lining comes with a Cloud

Yes, the Presidential election was a great and wonderful thing. But, am I the only one who is depressed about the rest of the election results?

I don't know. Maybe because it had become increasingly obvious that Obama would win, I started to take that one for granted. And, if you look beyond Obama, the rest of the night went about as poorly as it could have.

Let's review:

Franken seems to have lost his race against Coleman. Once again, after millions of votes are cast, it comes down to a couple hundred votes. Is it too much to ask that we come out on the winning end of one of these things? Last time we lost an election by 537 votes, we ended up with a cowboy who had more bluster than sense.

Michele Bachmann won reelection. Let's face it -- this woman is moon-bat crazy. Aside from her much-publicized McCarthyism, she's got no shortage of other craziness going on. My favorite one is where she wouldn't allow her charter school to show Disney's Aladdin because it "promoted paganism and witchcraft".

Madia lost.

Ted Stevens seems to have been reelected. This guy was just convicted of 7 felonies less than two weeks ago! 'Nuff said.

Proposition 8 seems to have passed in California.

And don't even get me started on James Inhofe.

All in all, a bad night -- with one bright, shining exception.