Karl Rove can shut up and then go find somewhere to shut up some more

The Onion has the best headline, of course: Defeated Man Victorious

But the funniest story is the actual one.

Shortly after Fox and everyone else called Ohio and the election for President Obama, Rove staged a live TV mutiny. He insisted that the Ohio call had been premature and then forced Fox’s Megan Kelly to make an SNL like walk through the Fox building and confront the network’s official number counters with Rove’s objections.

I’m sure I saw a thought bubble over the numbers guys’ heads that said “What the f*$k are you guys doing here?” But the guy calmly explained to Kelly that yes they were quite certain that Obama had defeated Romney and it was over. Kelly then walked back through the Fox building and gave the news to Rove. But it still wasn’t over.

Rove is just building a story to sell as he continues to raise money for his Pac.  It's astounding that FOX allows him a platform from which to do that but... well that's FOX.

The next 4 years will be an interesting transition.  It's clear that big money still rules American politics. The first thing on Obama's second term agenda will be cutting Social Security and Medicare basically because rich people don't and won't pay taxes anymore.

At the same time the Republican party's electoral formula it has relied on for the past 50 or 60 years is broken.  So, for the while, we are to be ruled by wealth but perhaps not so much by overt hate and racism.  Kind of nice but also kind of a gilded cage and likely not a sustainable situation.

The council runoffs will be interesting.  Without thinking it through too much I think Kaplan and Gray have the advantages going in.  With 95% of the vote in, the bridge tolls look like they might be going down.  The school board results aren't so great.  More on that later.

Meanwhile Bobby Jindal can start running for President again now.  Sadly I don't think that means we can have all our schools and hospitals back .