I protest.

Thank you, America.

I just want to say "thank you."

Thank you to all those who have decided that four more years of lies are worth more than the lives of their sons and daughters, not to mention the lives of thousands of Iraqis.

Thank you to all those who were so afraid of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda that they voted for the people who let them get away in the first place.

Thank you to all those who long for the return of the days of bloody death from botched back-alley abortions.

Thank you to all those who care more about whether some strangers can get married than about whether their own family can afford to go to the doctor when they're sick.

Thank you to all those who think that it is better for millions of the poor, seniors and children, to be without the medical care that they need than it is for a single wealthy person to pay their fair share of taxes.

Thank you to all those who pay more attention to Fox News than to their own common sense and have decided that tax cuts for the rich and tax increases for the poor is better than having to think for themselves.

Thank you to all those who think that absence of evidence is evidence of absence where George W. Bush's National Guard service is concerned, but that absence of evidence is evidence of presence when it comes to George's belief that he is divinely guided.

Thank you to all those who believe that a liberal who protests an unjust, unnecessary war is a traitor while a "conservative" who locks up American citizens without trial or representation deserves to lead the country.

Thank you to all those who, in voting for the status quo, have confirmed to the world that the United States is a country of vile, ignorant racists, of sadists who delight in the torture and sexual degradation of those whom they dislike.

Thank you for teaching your children that hatred and ignorance is right while any sort of protest is wrong.

Thank you for believing the lies.

You will quite certainly now get the government that you deserve. And you, and I, and my children, will have to live with the consequences of your folly for a long, long time to come.