Well last week SUCKED.

First the Hurricanes and FAU lose on Saturday of last week.
Then the Dolphins are still playing this season.
Then the election debacle of 2004.
Then my 14 year old dog dies.
Then the NHL players association sticks their collective middle finger at Gary Betman and the ownership.
Then UM and FAU lose this week.
Then the Dolphins lose.

I got a personalized e-mail from Terry McAuliffe asking me what I think went awry and what position we should take over the next four years.

I said we need to take back the discourse and re-define so that liberal, tolerant, accepting people are no longer villified, and conservatives who use morality, hatred, and bigotry to wedge people from each other.

I told him that Democrats need to call the president out and keep him honest. We need to re-assert ourselves in the media and start regaining the confidence of people nation wide, not just in those coastal areas. Really, if the Northeast and Pacific Coasts fell into the ocean right now, this country would look really right wing. We're not. But we'd look it.

We need to be a real opposition party, doing wise things like forcing the constitiution to stand up, even if it means preventing a quorum to do so. Sorry, California did not gerrymander when Dems were in control. Stop lying, Delay.

The most important thing we have to do, though, is get to the bottom of why exit polls in paper ballot precincts were on target and those in areas where electronic balloting were used (especially those manufactured by SS&H with no paper trail) were so far off. We need to work towards permanently fixing the flaws in the voting process so that no one ever feels that the election was a farce or that the process is not worth going thru. Remember, more people voted against george bush than had ever voted for any president, and only a 3 percent margin of more voters allegedly voted for w.

Also, Nader didn't take more than 1 percent of the vote anywhere, but in states where he took 1 percent, the split was 50% bush, 49% Kerry and 1% Nader. Still think Nader wasn't a factor? Why did Republicans work so hard to get him on the ballots?

ARG!