Sigh.

As I’m heading to bed, I hear that Fox News has called Ohio for Bush. I expect to wake up and hear that we’ll have another four years of debt, erosion of the constitution, and shameful foreign policy. I’m not one to embrace the shrill hyperbole of the far left. But I am for the first time in my life truly disappointed by my country. How can we have arrived at this sad place?

So many terrible things can happen in the next four years. Supreme court justices will be appointed. The right to choose could fall. The right to marry is certainly not going anywhere soon. The religious right, which lauds Bush for his faith-based administration, will have a firm hold on all three branches of government. They’ve made a big mess, and they’re being rewarded for it. I’m so, so sorry.