The pendulum is on the other foot
For years I comforted myself by thinking "the pendulum will swing back" as the country increasingly moved more and more into elevating evangelical Christianity over other religions and the wealthiest Americans were allowed to suck the life out of the middle class through fees, fraud and wage stagnation.
Meanwhile my own party couldn't do anything right. They were utterly spineless when it came to promoting the democratic agenda. They meekly allowed the Republicans to run the show, cooperating in every way possible out of the hope that the Republican administration might deign to throw them a bone. Which the Republicans didn't. Why should they.
It seemed for the longest time that there was no victory so assured that Democrats couldn't snatch defeat out of it.
It was frustrating as all hell.
But then the pendulum did swing back. Not so much swing as was hit with a hammer. The planets aligned, a miracle happened: The fiscal house of cards put up by the Republicans finally came crashing down at the precise moment the Democrats had found a guy with the smarts and charisma to finally corral the cats that are the democratic party into all doing the same thing at the same time. More or less.
And now I get to see the Republicans flailing around, and I'm not sure whether it's right for me to be indulging in Shadenfreude to this degree or not. To an extent I sympathize, because I've been there. At the same time, I think they bloody well deserve every bit of it.
So I'm gloating. Yes, I'm gloating. I'm laughing that my party can get away with making the Republicans choose between agreeing with Rush or being a RINO. I'm laughing because the Democrats know that's a false dichotomy, but the Republicans apparently don't. (Check out DSK in the comments and the response to him).
Good luck "big tent" republicans. Maybe if you toss enough of your number out you'll be the majority again. It reminds me of the story of the carpenter who called to his foreman in frustration: "I've cut this board three times already, but it's still too short."
One sour note: I really wish people would stop framing the Dow Jones as being the barometer of fiscal health for the nation. The US wasn't healthy when it hit 14,000. Now that it's below 7000, it's still a terrible predictor.
Meanwhile my own party couldn't do anything right. They were utterly spineless when it came to promoting the democratic agenda. They meekly allowed the Republicans to run the show, cooperating in every way possible out of the hope that the Republican administration might deign to throw them a bone. Which the Republicans didn't. Why should they.
It seemed for the longest time that there was no victory so assured that Democrats couldn't snatch defeat out of it.
It was frustrating as all hell.
But then the pendulum did swing back. Not so much swing as was hit with a hammer. The planets aligned, a miracle happened: The fiscal house of cards put up by the Republicans finally came crashing down at the precise moment the Democrats had found a guy with the smarts and charisma to finally corral the cats that are the democratic party into all doing the same thing at the same time. More or less.
And now I get to see the Republicans flailing around, and I'm not sure whether it's right for me to be indulging in Shadenfreude to this degree or not. To an extent I sympathize, because I've been there. At the same time, I think they bloody well deserve every bit of it.
So I'm gloating. Yes, I'm gloating. I'm laughing that my party can get away with making the Republicans choose between agreeing with Rush or being a RINO. I'm laughing because the Democrats know that's a false dichotomy, but the Republicans apparently don't. (Check out DSK in the comments and the response to him).
Good luck "big tent" republicans. Maybe if you toss enough of your number out you'll be the majority again. It reminds me of the story of the carpenter who called to his foreman in frustration: "I've cut this board three times already, but it's still too short."
One sour note: I really wish people would stop framing the Dow Jones as being the barometer of fiscal health for the nation. The US wasn't healthy when it hit 14,000. Now that it's below 7000, it's still a terrible predictor.