Senator Saxby Chambliss was re-elected in Georgia's closely watched and hotly contested Senate runoff election. Saxby had captured 58 percent of the vote with 92 percent of the precincts reporting.  It's all about turnout and we did.

Chambliss' win is attributable in large part to an increase in white male voter turnout and a low turnout of African-American voters. White men accounted for 36 percent of the half-million early votes cast before the runoff, up from 27 percent on Election Day November 4. 

Even if that clown Al Franken manages to steal the Minnesota Senate election - via "asking the Democratic-led Senate to intervene on his behalf to allow some disqualified absentee ballots to be counted... or asking the courts to step in" (Drudge Report, December 2) - the Senate will still be one vote shy from supposedly being filler buster proof.  But that still doesn't bode well for the loyal opposition. There are always a few Republicans - I won't name names but one was the party's nominee for president a month ago - who can be counted on to use "bipartisanship" as an excuse for siding with the Democratic majority.   

The end of the Georgia runoff election also brings an end to those irritating automated get-out-the-vote calls - not to mention those insufferably vacuous back-to-back TV spots for and against both candidates.

I was inundated the last few weeks with a blizzard of calls from such luminaries as Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Governor Perdue, Pat Boone - yes Pat Boone - Sarah Palin and Michael Reagan. Guess I'm special.

Palin, my favorite Republican, recorded the usual plea to vote for Saxby but hearing her voice sent chills done my spine - not by leg, sorry Chris Matthews, ala Barack Obama.  I imagined that voice - come January 20, 2013 - in her clear, unmistakably Sarah Alaska brogue, reciting the words from the Constitution:  "I, Sarah Louise Heath Palin, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Then there was Michael Regan's message.  Bummer.  In a shrill, bombastic, fast talking voice, he wraned me that if Saxby's isn't relected, the government would take my guns, raise my taxes and kill the unborn.  I've wondered what Mr. Reagan would be doing now if not for that great last name.  Selling used Hummers perhaps?

The TV spots. The calls.  Whew!  It's over.  Thank you, Lord.

Now, back to normalcy and such idiocy as this headline:

"Ford Says CEO Will Work for $1 to Get Loans"

"Ford CEO Alan Mulally said he'll work for $1 per year if the company has to take any government loan money (Associated Press, December 2).

Oh, Plueese!

Gee, can you afford to do that, Mr. Mulally?  I mean, $1 per year, that's far less than .01 cent a day.  Hope Food Stamps help...that old Edsel won't.