Late, but still good

So the day after the midterm election, Stephen Colbert unleashed one of the most hilarious diatribes I've ever heard -- even for him. I wrote it down at the time, and always meant to post it, but never did. So, at long last, here it is. Still appropriate. Still funny:

"You know what really gets me? Democrats didn't really win this thing, the Republicans lost it. They ran away from the president. 'Hey, the ship's in trouble, quick, let's drown the captain!' We were this close to Jesus coming back.

You Republicans who turned your back on the president are going to wander in the desert for the next two years. Literally. Someone's going to have to replace those troops in Iraq. And don't think you're off the hook, voters. You made this bed, and now you're the ones who are going to have to move over so a gay couple can sleep in it.

Tomorrow you're all going to wake up in a brave new world. A world where the Constitution gets trampled by an army of terrorist clones created in a stem cell research lab by homosexual doctors who sterilize their instruments over a burning American flag. Where tax-and-spend Democrats take all your hard-earned money and use it to buy electric cars for National Public Radio and teach evolution to illegal immigrants."