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by John at 11/23/2005 09:30:00 AM
I've got to admit I'm feeling pretty good about how badly things are going for the Republicans, and especially for President Bush.2
This was the kind of thing I consoled myself with after Kerry lost last year. If he had won, he'd be getting blamed for the dismal failure of the Bush administration's Iraq policy, for the still-lagging economy, for high fuel prices, and for a half-assed response to natural disaster by a crippled and incompetently managed FEMA.3 In that very limited sense, the Democratic party got lucky. All that stuff is being held, as is just and proper, as evidence against the Republicans who have controlled all three branches of the federal government for almost five years, instead of some unlucky sucker who got stuck holding the bag.
Anyway, here's to Blue America.
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1. Schadenfreude.
2. Can't say I'm happy about the end results of how badly Republicans have done, though. Real people are really hurting because of their screw-ups. It will take a long time to put America and the world back together after the Republicans get knocked out of power, if it can be done at all. And meanwhile, the Republicans get to screw up more stuff and dig an even deeper hole out of which we will have to climb.
3. The Republicans would still get to keep Delay, Frist, Abramoff and the other corruption scandals for themselves.
This was the kind of thing I consoled myself with after Kerry lost last year. If he had won, he'd be getting blamed for the dismal failure of the Bush administration's Iraq policy, for the still-lagging economy, for high fuel prices, and for a half-assed response to natural disaster by a crippled and incompetently managed FEMA.3 In that very limited sense, the Democratic party got lucky. All that stuff is being held, as is just and proper, as evidence against the Republicans who have controlled all three branches of the federal government for almost five years, instead of some unlucky sucker who got stuck holding the bag.
Anyway, here's to Blue America.
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1. Schadenfreude.
2. Can't say I'm happy about the end results of how badly Republicans have done, though. Real people are really hurting because of their screw-ups. It will take a long time to put America and the world back together after the Republicans get knocked out of power, if it can be done at all. And meanwhile, the Republicans get to screw up more stuff and dig an even deeper hole out of which we will have to climb.
3. The Republicans would still get to keep Delay, Frist, Abramoff and the other corruption scandals for themselves.
