If you're like me, your inbox was filled with cheerful e-mails from fellow progressives celebrating yesterday's election mandate. "Bye, bye Rummy," read one. "Hello Nancy Pelosi! Hello new world... It's like the air is ok to breath again."
And then, as if we don't believe in our own ability to govern, as if we're not up to the simple task of doing better than Bush's enablers, my friend cut the triumph off at its knees. "We've earned this day," she said. "I just hope the Dems have a plan and don't muck things up."
If we don't have confidence in ourselves, why would anyone? I refuse to follow that negative line of thinking. I will not let Faux News, Doughboy Limbaugh, Phone-a-friend O'Reilly or any of the media pukes lessen our victory by suggesting we have anything to prove to anyone -- least of all, them!
The Republicans have destroyed this country over the last six years and Democrats should not be criticized if it takes a little time to clean up after them. If nothing else, taking away Bush's rubber stamp and preventing the nation from deteriorating further is a step in the right direction.
Meanwhile, let's not forget to celebrate. We won! America won! Our troops won!
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Out of the dark ages, into a brave new world
Posted by Lonnie at 9:50 PM
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It's like I told my students today, many of whom had real reason to fear the intentions of the Republican House: You can't expect things to be radically different, but you can expect fewer bad things to happen.
If that sounds negative, trust me, they took it as good news.
Speaking of Rumsfield, his picture has been the logo for my fantasy football team -- Lonster's Monsters -- for years. With today's resignation/firing, the Monsters are sporting a new Dick Cheney logo. Thank goodness the GOP provides so many scary creatures to model.
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