Go Amy

Democracy Now today:

For the past week backers of the Bush administration have attempted to describe last week's election as a major victory for Bush that gave the president a political mandate. In fact, it was one of the closest presidential races of the past century. The election would have turned if only 70,000 Bush supporters in Ohio had switched to John Kerry. Bush won by 24 electoral votes, the second closest electoral margin since 1916. Only the 2000 race was closer. And while losing, John Kerry received more votes than any previous winning presidential candidate ever has--including Presidents Clinton and Reagan.

Indeed.

Not that such inconsequential things as the facts are gonna stop BushCo™ from arguing the American people are now behind them, whatever incredibly, monumentally destructively hare-brained scheme they might choose to pursue.