Honesty and realism -- no less!

David Frum in his blog on National Review Online quotes a poem by Kipling that sums up the elections.

Nov. 07, 2006: Kipling on the 06 Result

LET us admit it fairly, as a business people should,
We have had no end of a lesson: it will do us no end of good.
Not on a single issue, or in one direction or twain,
But conclusively, comprehensively, and several times and again,
Were all our most holy illusions knocked higher than Gilderoy’s kite.
We have had a jolly good lesson, and it serves us jolly well right!

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It was our fault, and our very great fault—and now we must turn it to use.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

- "The Lesson."

As for the other folks over at the Corner, I only have one word - Schadenfreude!!