But the Redstate dude is right in, haha, agreeing with me (on Oct. 1st!) that McCain is (old, dry) toast. It’s over, finis, done, decided, all that is left to do is see how big the landslide is. Oh and see if the Dems get to 60 Senators.
So I ask again….now what?
We have won a battle. We have taken the first step. We are about to remove a cancer, well, we are about to remove a tumor, the cancer will still be in the body politic, waiting to grow again. The symptoms of Republicanism will still be evident in the Senate, the House, and in the Culture Wars. They are not going to give up, so we will still have to fight them…..as we move forward.
And it is not just ‘them’ that we will have to battle as struggle forward towards a more equitable, just, and free future. Post-Republican rule, the main problem we will immediately face is defeating the habitual thought patterns and whipped dog attitude that will linger like a bad smell among the Congressional Dems. They have caved, capitulated, and folded to the Republicans for so long that they will still respond like Pavlov’s dogs to the Republican bellshit.
We are about to remove the face of evil from power, but the evil will still be there, will still reflexively resist moving in the direction that the world needs to move in. Will still cling to the past. It will still argue for hate. For war. For Imperialism. It will still think that the solution to every problem the world faces is to punish or kill…..someone.
We have won this battle, but the war will still rage on. In a way it will be even harder. While George Bush and his war criminal cronies were in power, the problem was in our face and VERY obvious. Now it will be more subtle. Many of the folks who have mobilized against Bush will think the battle is over. Many who have woken up will go back to sleep.
They have been beaten and beaten back. We WON!
Now we move into a new phase, a new chapter. We will need new methods, new strategies, new ideas for a new struggle. As we enjoy the next month of celebration, let’s also start thinking about the next step of this “interesting” journey we are on. How do we use the huge momentum we have gained to keep the pendulum swinging in our direction?
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Except that any who are able to “go back to sleep” never really woke up in the first place, I think.
For example, it has been the democrats in the house and senate doing their damndest to sell bush and paulsons theft of nearly a trillion dollars from the American people in the past two weeks as if they were doing something for the people they are helping to stick up and rob. And now the media in the past couple of days is pushing the new meme that the bank bailout isn’t working because it wasn’t big enough. (The Iraq invasion and occupation was only wrong because not enough Iraqis were killed, of course.) And there is now a new breed of troll (or a revitalized wingnut troll) roaming the net trying to convince people how wonderfully the Democrats are treating them.
We’ve won?
that RedState is right about (OWW! that made my head hurt). Local Republicans now seem focused on Congressional races rather than McCain. They had started dreaming after the 2004 election that Iowa’s Tom Harkin would be vulnerable in his 2008 Senate race. Now that 2008 is here Harkin is perfectly safe.
But Republican Steve King (IA-05), the worst embarrassment to the state in its history, may be the one that’s vulnerable. It’s still an uphill battle for his opponent, Rob Hubler, but there are whispers that internal polling shows a close race. I’m hoping our next step is to target people like Steve King and vote them out.
that the Republicans work for. Meet the new boss, same os the ols boss.
New whips to get some folks in line.