After the party

Have you ever gone to a wedding for people that you know that are not going to make it, even though you really want them to?

You go to the wedding, which is okay, and then you head to the reception and it is a great party. It is fun, and you drink a little, and by the end of the night, even knowing that this is bad, you leave and go to bed with a little bit of hope and cheery feelings.

Then the morning comes...

You start looking at the pictures, and reviewing the memories, and, "Oh My God! No! Why did I let this happen?"

This is how I am feeling about last night in the cold light of morning. (And it is a cold light this morning.) There are so many things that could have been done differently, and while I was giddy watching some of the losses last night, and wonderfully happy that we get to see how the Tea Party will govern, but now it hit me that we are going to see how members of the Tea Party govern.

Chris Matthews (who was reconsidering his choice not to run for Senate in Pennsylvania last night) wondered what happens if the Federal Debt Limit is not raised, and I have to wonder what people who ran on "Hell No" will do when forced to keep this country from defaulting on her obligations.

So, deep breath here.

We are going to be fine as an experiment, but the next two years are going to be interesting (in the Chinese sense).