Lessons Learned

Christine Gregoire's furniture was lugged into the governor's mansion early Wednesday morning, and she recited the oath of office shortly after noon.

"I keep getting asked, 'What's the mandate?' Well, what was the mandate for President Bush?" she said. "We have to move on. We cannot allow the closeness of the election to prohibit us from being bold. That is what George Bush did."

Gregoire said that her reading of state law is that, absent fraud, "there is no provision for a do-over."

Republicans Sore Losers display their class and dignity ala Kerry and Gore: