Paul Krugman's cry of joy

[fiorello]

If any reporter has the right to shout and jump for joy, it's Paul Krugman. Here it is. This week the full article is free!

http://select.nytimes.com/2006/11/10/opinion/10krugman.html

Here’s what I wrote more than three years ago, in the introduction to my column collection “The Great Unraveling”: “I have a vision — maybe just a hope — of a great revulsion: a moment in which the American people look at what is happening, realize how their good will and patriotism have been abused, and put a stop to this drive to destroy much of what is best in our country.”

At the time, the right was still celebrating the illusion of victory in Iraq, and the bizarre Bush personality cult was still in full flower. But now the great revulsion has arrived.

Tuesday’s election was a truly stunning victory for the Democrats. Candidates planning to caucus with the Democrats took 24 of the 33 Senate seats at stake this year, winning seven million more votes than Republicans. In House races, Democrats received about 53 percent of the two-party vote, giving them a margin more than twice as large as the 2.5-percentage-point lead that Mr. Bush claimed as a “mandate” two years ago — and the margin would have been even bigger if many Democrats hadn’t been running unopposed.

Now, I don’t expect or want a permanent Democratic lock on power. But I do hope and believe that this election marks the beginning of the end for the conservative movement that has taken over the Republican Party.
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Why do I want to see movement conservatism crushed? Partly because the movement is fundamentally undemocratic; its leaders don’t accept the legitimacy of opposition. Democrats will only become acceptable, declared Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, once they “are comfortable in their minority status.” He added, “Any farmer will tell you that certain animals run around and are unpleasant, but when they’ve been fixed, then they are happy and sedate.”

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Two years ago, people were talking about permanent right-wing dominance of American politics. But since then the American people have gotten a clearer sense of what rule by movement conservatives means. They’ve seen the movement take us into an unnecessary war, and botch every aspect of that war. They’ve seen a great American city left to drown; they’ve seen corruption reach deep into our political process; they’ve seen the hypocrisy of those who lecture us on morality.

And they just said no.

[mikelgb]

1. so "Greatest" but unworthhy of comment?

I guess so

[Qutzupalotl]

4. Not unworthy.

It speaks for itself.

[liberal43110]

2. Paul Krugman is my hero

[Swagman]

6. I agree-great journalist.

[femrap]

3. I bet there are going to be some subpoenas heading

Grover Norquist's way....and I imagine that Karl will be seen on C-Span taking an oath. Oh, this is going to be very, very good.

I can hardly wait.

[JohnnyLib2]

5. Stunning piece, got my vote

[depakid]

7. I think Krugman is more generous than I am

The far right needs to be relegated back to the fringe where they belong- one victory in one set of mid-term elections is not enough, nor will it do much to heal the damage that the Republicans have wrought.

[n2doc]

8. read it all here today

http://wealthyfrenchman.blogspot.com/

[BeFree]

9. Fixed

<pig crap>“Any farmer will tell you that certain animals run around and are unpleasant, but when they’ve been fixed, then they are happy and sedate.”</pig crap>

About the time that pig crap was produced was about the same time HAVA was enacted. What the butt-wipe was saying was that through the stealing of votes the Democrats were *fixed*. What we witnessed on Tuesday was the unfixing of that theft. By our sheer numbers we overwhelmed the fix. They knew we'd be in the streets today and that scared the fixer. He put down his knife and backtracked into the barn.

Now we take away the knife by getting rid of HAVA. Eh?