just got home.
hi, home.
i can’t tell you how much pleasure i’m getting from watching the right wing fall apart.
again, it’s schadenfreude, but it’s deeply satisfying.
tom delay was indicted again today.
gw bush nominated his personal lawyer to sit on the supreme court, and the right wing are furious.
the religious right pretty much only care about the judiciary.
the christian/conservative right wing want another scalia or thomas(the thought makes me queasy…), but instead they’re getting moderates and it’s making them nuts.
all of the hard-core right wingers are calling gw ‘bush2’ and ‘sellout’ and etc.
at present it seems as if gw’s base almost hates him more than the left does.
and it’s so much fun to watch.
let’s see, who has gw alienated in the last few weeks…
well:
#1-the ‘fiscal hawk republicans’, who are offended by buhy spending and spending and spending. even the wall street journal are starting to be offended by bush’s spending habits.
#2-the religious right. gw’s supreme court nominees have infuriated the right.
the religious right basically said to gw: ‘we’ll re-elect you and you can do whatever you want with the economy, but we want a right-wing judiciary. and gw hasn’t given it to them(thank goodness).
#3-the neo-cons and the more old-school republicans, who are finally accepting that gw’s foreign policy
is an unmitigated disaster.
and now the religious right are completely apoplectic.
and with rove and libby and frist and delay and etc etc(basically all of the republican leaders in washington)under investigation or indictment, it looks as if the republicans are crumbling(even if they’re not it’s still fun to pretend).
too bad there isn’t a super viable left waiting to swoop in and take advantage of things.
if the left had their shit together they could end the right-wing stranglehold on politics in this country.
i wish that i had ‘courage pills’ to give to the democratic leaders. now is the time to be strong. carpe diem, etc. but the left just seem to plod along and take pot-shots at the republicans without actually putting forward a clearly thought out and well developed platform of their own.
the left should say, simply:
‘we stand for a strong economy, a healthy environment, great schools, national security, and the rights of all americans. the republicans have given us a huge deficit, pointless and expensive wars, inept handling of national disasters, and dishonesty and criminals in washington. it’s time for a change.’
but in the meantime it’s fun to watch the right wing republican machine fall apart, even if it’s not going to last and even if the democrats are too disorganized to take advantage of this cornucopia of political godsends.
-moby