Good Morning America, How Are Ya?

This was supposed to go up earlier today, when it was still AM across America, but Blogger wouldn't cooperate. (I know, ... excuses, excuses). Still, I think the heading works as a kind of semi-ironic riff on Ronald Reagan's old Morning in America bit, don't you? I mean, who could have guessed that things would change so thoroughly overnight? While the results are still too close to call in the Senate, the House leadership has clearly switched hands and arguably the most anti-environmental of all representatives, California Congressman Richard Pombo, has gone down in flaming defeat to an underdog challenger who is in every way his antithesis -- the wind power consultant Jerry McNerney. Attaboy, Jerry! This was just one fight among many in which the Sierra Club was clearly instrumental and showed its considerable influence. America awoke to a greener Congress than the one it had yesterday. Now the real work begins.