The revolution is dead, long live the revolution
At this late hour, Democrats are within two seats of taking back the US Senate. With Claire McCaskill's victory in Missouri, everyone is watching Montana and Virginia.
We likely won't know what happened for sure tonight. Virginia is razor thin, although at the moment Webb is slowly increasing his lead. Things look better in Montana.
People will, of course, ask what it all means. So the simple answer is: the "Republican Revolution" is dead.
It was a sham revolution anyhow. It claimed to act on behalf of ordinary people, and then acted on behalf of the powerful and the wealthy. It claimed moral superiority and righteousness, and then acted with turpitude. It claimed a superior knowledge of matters of state like national defense, then proved itself inept and criminally negligent.
As we know, this is but one step. Whether Democrats reclaim the Senate or not, we have pulled our country back from the edge of a great precipice.
The challenges ahead will still be great. The media will continue to fellate Republicans, and Republicans themselves are most unlikely as a party to learn many lessons from their defeat tonight. The mean, hateful and often racist among them will fight hard to continue their assault on basic freedoms.
The war in Iraq looms large. The American people expect now that Democrats will do something meaningful about it, and it will be our job in the netroots to see that happens.
We can now have a somewhat rational discourse about the war. Although we will still be called traitors in some quarters, the forces that led the Congress to declare war upon a fried potato have now been blunted. In short, the reality based community has prevailed.
We likely won't know what happened for sure tonight. Virginia is razor thin, although at the moment Webb is slowly increasing his lead. Things look better in Montana.
People will, of course, ask what it all means. So the simple answer is: the "Republican Revolution" is dead.
It was a sham revolution anyhow. It claimed to act on behalf of ordinary people, and then acted on behalf of the powerful and the wealthy. It claimed moral superiority and righteousness, and then acted with turpitude. It claimed a superior knowledge of matters of state like national defense, then proved itself inept and criminally negligent.
As we know, this is but one step. Whether Democrats reclaim the Senate or not, we have pulled our country back from the edge of a great precipice.
The challenges ahead will still be great. The media will continue to fellate Republicans, and Republicans themselves are most unlikely as a party to learn many lessons from their defeat tonight. The mean, hateful and often racist among them will fight hard to continue their assault on basic freedoms.
The war in Iraq looms large. The American people expect now that Democrats will do something meaningful about it, and it will be our job in the netroots to see that happens.
We can now have a somewhat rational discourse about the war. Although we will still be called traitors in some quarters, the forces that led the Congress to declare war upon a fried potato have now been blunted. In short, the reality based community has prevailed.
