you should read the whole column. but here's a taste:
Feel that numbness? That strange slightly chilling shift deep in the heart, like a cold wind across the blood, an ice pick straight to the third eye, fingernails across the karmic chalkboard?
Fear not -- it's just the dark storm clouds of sadness and savage spiritual pain that just settled in over the collective soul of the country and indeed much of the world recently, as the Republican Party snatched total control of the American government and really honestly promised to further its agenda of fear and war and intolerance and bad sex and more petroleum products forevermore.
now, morford can be a bit of a loony snarkmonster at times, but this is one time i can say, 'what he said', point to it, and be done with my current opinion of the state of things. ok, go read it now.
Well, since the intent is to rouse the Left, the column works. However, it isn't quite as bleak as he paints it. The Senate majority still has to find 9 like-thinking Democrats to agree with them to block filibusters (or their threat), and after this setback, I suspect not too many Dems are gonna join Max Baucus of Montana and Zell Miller of Georgia in going along with the program as Morford paints it.
Am I whistling in the graveyard after dark?
"The Senate majority still has to find 9 like-thinking Democrats to agree with them to block filibusters"
--do you suppose it would be as hard to do that, as it was to find Dems to vote unconditional go-ahead for unilateral war?
Like I said, whistling in the dark. Somewhere there must be some Democrats with courage and a memory of what the party used to stand for.
yes, Virginia, there is a .... ahh, nevermind.
i'm really not that cynical. just a little scared.
as the Republican Party snatched total control of the American government
OK, I'm not reading that whole article because I'm not in the mood for an aneurism. BUT, I will say this. No one "snatched" anything. The people voted. And every time someone says something like "snatched" or "stole" or whatnot, it denigrates all American voters. (I'm not at all talking about the 2000 election here, and there's no claim that anything like that went on this time).
The representative of the "Right" has spoken. ;)
Hey, Faith! It's always instructive to read what the bad guys on the other side say...that's why I read Bill Kristol once in a while! Grins...
Yup, that does read good :-)
Yes, Morford is a wonderful thing. I frequently use his lines as my sig.