...who have provided us with this place to come and get information, vent our spleens, share the little victories and The Big One, and revel in the knowledge that the power to effect change that we never had via the mainstream media is now available to us by this and other excellent netroots sites.

You all have done yeoman service, and I want you to know I appreciate it tremendously. And I know I'm not alone.

You get "attaboys" for every electoral vote won last night. As Ben Bradlee says to Woodward and Bernstein in the film version of "All The President's Men":

You guys are probably pretty tired, right? Well, you should be. Go on home, get a nice hot bath. Rest up... 15 minutes. Then get your asses back in gear. We're under a lot of pressure, you know, and you put us there. Nothing's riding on this except the, uh, first amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press, and maybe the future of the country.