The real political drama tonight was not Hillary Clinton's expected win in West Virginia, but rather the nail-biter special election in blood-red MS-01. And just like the special elections in IL-14 and LA-06, the Democrat won!!

Congratulations to Travis Childers and all his supporters!

No doubt they're popping champagne at the DNC, but popping Effexor XR ("change you deserve" TM) at the RNC. (Read their devastating 20-page self-criticism and the rightwing doomsday headlines.)

Republicans spent 20% of their cash-on-hand to hold this blood-red seat, but their money was wasted once again. Republicans tried to smear Childers with Rev. Wright, but the voters turned against the GOP smear.

As every poll shows, Bush has turned the Republican brand to sh*t. Heading towards November, every Republican candidate starts out with a 10% monkey on his or her back. Republican efforts to poison Democrats by linking them to Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama are failing miserably.

There's only one thing Bush can do to avoid a wipeout in November, and that's to "bomb bomb Iran." And there's only one thing Congressional Democrats can do to stop Bush: impeach him.

Tell your Representatives to Impeach Bush If He Attacks Iran:
http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/134

Update 1: Republicans are trying to spin Childers' win as a victory for "conservatives" because Childers is anti-choice. But there's nothing "conservative" (in the current neo-fascist Republican sense) about his position on Iraq:

He was the only one of five candidates -- three Republicans, two Democrats -- at a campaign stop in Nesbit last week who said point-blank that U.S. troops don't belong in Iraq... 

Childers said he favors coming up with a plan to withdraw troops over 12 to 18 months and leave the Iraqis to fight among themselves, as they have for thousands of years.

He said he's amazed more people on the campaign trail haven't asked about a national debt of more than $9 trillion.

"We're spending our money, folks, in Iraq. We need to be spending our money in America.

"We need to help young people get homes. We need to address the mortgage crisis."

Update 2: MSNBC is close to predicting a Democratic landslide in November:

How are congressional Republicans reacting? If our email boxes and voicemail boxes are any indication, there are two guys on the firing line: House GOP leader John Boehner and the NRCC’s Tom Cole. The two may attempt to shoot at each other a bit (watch Eric Cantor; he's already be looked to by some as the NEXT great savior of the House GOP), though the person who may ultimately be blamed is Bush. After all, Republicans aren't running Congress anymore so if voters are still punishing the GOP, they are punishing them for Bush. If this isn't proof that 2006 was about Bush and not corruption, we don't know what else you need. Remember, not a single Democratic incumbent lost in ’06. Cole, in his statement last night, is advising Republicans to become change candidates. It's tough to break through the presidential clutter to do that. And the thing that ought to scare the GOP even more is that if a Democrat is elected president, he'll appear to have massive coattails and that, in turn, will create the appearance of a mandate, a la Reagan in 1980. No wonder Clinton isn't ready to throw in the towel just yet: If Democrats win this presidential election, it will be the biggest mandate any Democrat has had for governing since LBJ in '64.

Of course Bush claimed a "mandate" in 2000 after losing the election, and the Corporate Media supported his far-right agenda every step of the way. So can we expect that if Democrats win in 2008 with a real mandate, the Corporate media will support our progressive agenda every step of the way?

Not for one second. The Corporate Media game is rigged: heads we (Republicans) win, tails you (Democrats) lose.