NewsMax.com: Americans Didn't Run to Canada After Bush Election Victory

In fact, immigration levels to Canada actually fell. Not to say that no one went north to Canada. But it is to say that, if anything, fewer people overall thought about moving to Canada after the election.

Long-time readers will remember that this blog began with my observation of the initially increased Internet traffic at the Canada Ministry of Immigration. You'll also remember that, however much I would have liked to see such ex-migration, liberals had threatened to leave the country en masse the first time Bush was elected, and they didn't do it then. And they haven't done it this time.

In other words, they're all talk and no do. But frankly their idle threats are getting very tiresome.

Edward Everett Hale (The Man Without a Country) wouldn't be much happier about this than I am, I suspect. Here you have a bunch of habitual malcontents who will probably threaten to move to Canada every four years for as long as Republicans continue to win elections. Hale's stories, and much else in American fiction and literature, were once required reading in school, or at least suggested summer reading. Maybe it's time they became so again.