Oh No! Dems Don't Get 60!
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

That's the media-driven headline about the fact that douchenozzle Saxby Chambliss's won - as he was always expected to do - in Georgia yesterday. It is Georgia after all.

The Democrats will have 58 seats in the Senate once the recount in Minnesota shows that Norm Coleman's eked out the narrowest of wins against Al Franken.

And you know what... 58 seats was exactly what most analysts believed the final tally would be. Hell, on election night, those around the tv at our place generally agreed that 58 was the upper limit.

But to hear anyone in the media tell it, 60 was easily possible. And so the story to be told will be how the Democrats didn't get to he hallowed filibuster-proof 60 seats.

You don't have to take my word for it that the entire idea of 60 seats was a media-driven fantasy - try doing a few simple Google searches and you'll see that aside from one or two ads produced in the last few days of the Franken campaign saying he could be the 60th seat, there was no talk of 60 seats. And when election day was over, the only people talking about getting to 60 were the tv talking heads. And now, if you tune in, you're bound to hear several days of how, by not getting to 60, the Democrats are screwed.

And that's absolute nonsense as well.