By Mary Lyon. from the left -- World News Trust
Nov. 8, 2006 -- I guess I can understand oversleeping. Most of America stayed that course for a couple of election cycles already. But they’re wide-awake now. The midterm elections of 2006 are a huge, clanging, banging, siren-shrieking wake-up call. For everybody. For the vast majority of Americans who finally came to their senses, for George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Karl Rove, for the Democrats, for the media, and ESPECIALLY for the republi-CONS -- who needed it most of all.
There’s been just a little bit too much unilateral, imperial, swaggering, self-coronational arrogance going on in Washington in the past six years. Just a little too much pig-headed, close-minded, in-yer-face, “my way or the highway” obnoxiousness. A little too much dismissal of the single most important idea of democratic governance: THEY work for US. It’s NOT the other way around. Bush’s bunch and all the many multitudes of sycophants, cowards, cover-up artists, excuse-makers, and spinners forgot that. They drank too deeply of the “absolute power corrupts absolutely” vintage, piled into the same car together, and raced it straight over a cliff. They forgot that it’s NOT about them, or all the power and trappings that they only get to BORROW, NOT to own. That’s the PEOPLE’S purview. That’s OUR department. WE run things. The power and authority comes from US. WE get the last word on who’s allowed to use it in our name and on our behalf. WE’RE “the Deciders.”
I had been expecting to write this two years ago, when the repudiation of republi-CON and Bushian overreaching, corruption, and outright criminality should have occurred. It would have been that much sweeter, and the damage they’ve been allowed to do in that time would have been checked, prevented at least partially. But much of America chose to remain asleep. I guess those nice dreams and warm beds really were better than having to wake up and deal with the harsh realities and the cold morning air. Better late than never, I guess. On the other hand, I feel like I’m waking up with something of a hangover. I’m dazed and a little confused. This can’t really be true, can it? Score one for the Good Guys? Really? The Democrats won? Thomas Paine, his “Common Sense” and arguments about checks and balances -– finally prevailed? Howard Dean’s “50-State Strategy” actually worked? The final say had by the voters rather than the voter fraud? I must still be dreaming.
Best of all is that the above-mentioned “Democrats won” part IS the reality that Bush, Cheney, Rove, Mehlman, Hastert, Frist, Blackwell, Harris, Santorum, Mr. Macaca, the rest of the usual suspects, and yes, even Schwarzenegger woke up to when their morning-after alarm clocks finally rousted them. Arnold Schwarzenegger, being one of the few significant GOPers to win reelection, will still have to look around and smell the coffee, and the crystal-clear signals the voters of America sent to his party at large. The republi-CON idea of business as usual has been found soundly unacceptable, and has been shown the door. He probably got that message after his own recent humiliation, the last time Californians went to the polls in an off-year special election upon which he had insisted.
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