After all the troubles, and the additional disappointment of November in the USA, finally there is a clear victory for those of us with at least some amount of sense.
A big win, too:
The Liberal Democratic Party took 294 seats of the 480 out there.
Their "allies" New Komeito took another 31.
Two minor parties that might actually be allies of the LDP, Your Party and Japan Restoration Party, took 18 and 54 seats respectively.
Oh, and the Democrats? The ones that had 230 seats (+ a handful of
Now if we can overturn that damnable Consumption Tax Increase, get some real tax reform here, and get back to spending government money primarily on the things government is supposed to do...
So yeah, we've got a chance here. Sorry Yanks, you had yours... but we'll see about trying to help once we've got our problems under control here.
