P.M. Carpenter: The proverbial 'haughty spirit before a fall'

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November 22, 2004
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The proverbial 'haughty spirit before a fall'

by P.M. Carpenter

Democrats are somewhat needlessly wringing their hands over election results. The sky isn't just falling – it has done fallen. Genetically right-wing moral majoritarians are roaming wild in packs, congressional conservatives have a permanent lock on power and any executive-branch modification of the president's personal Weltanshauung is now, officially, verboten.

Things couldn't get any worse, could they?

Sure they could. And they will – but ultimately in a rewarding direction. They will because of the very circumstances stated above. They will because the power-happy powers-that-be characteristically will push too far and in reasonably short order push themselves into deep electoral trouble.


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Meanwhile, the party can lie back and let Republican pols dig their own graves. Their history of foot-shooting and political suicide is long and renowned. From their Gilded Age habit of ignoring the common man's plight to their Hooverian knack for whistling through an expanding economic graveyard to their Nixonian penchant for constitutional abuses to their Reaganite rejection of fiscal responsibility, Republicans have ascended and just as surely have plunged, and always it has been at their own hands.

More: http://www.buzzflash.com/carpenter/04/11/pmc04021.html

I really hope he's right. I'd love to make some popcorn and watch these bastards go down in flames.

[MsAnthropy]

1. I loved this article--I've forwarded at least 10 times today

What a cheer-up for a Monday morning. They will be the cause of their own demise--you'd think they'd have learned from what happened to Newt.

[struggle4progress]

2. Sort of true. But there's no magic in the world. And we still won't win ..

.. without hard work. Still ... it looks like lots of people are fired up and ready to publicize every Repub misstep for the next few years.