Three Days Later...Still Pretty Bitter

I don't know how to not feel bitter. It's three days after the election results, and I'm still as upset at the first day. I thought maybe I was overreacting and just had to give myself some time and then get behind the President in his unification effort. But after what he said today, I'm not sure that it is possible:

"I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it...I'll reach out to everyone who shares our goals...When you win, there is a feeling that the people have spoken and embraced your point of view, and that's what I intend to tell Congress" (Erie Times News, 11/05/04, page 4a).

How should I feel unified? The way he states it, you are either for him or against him, and if you're against him, you're SOL. Number four on his two-term agenda is opening Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil drilling. How sick is that? I'm still broken-hearted.

All I can say is thank God for Arlen Specter. As the appointed head of the judiciary Committee, he basically said today he is going to be completely bipartisan. I know Specter has been a thorn in the side of the Christian Right and the right wing conservative republicans, and that is precisely why I vote for him. He is refreshingly bipartisan.