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Edited on Fri Nov-14-08 11:22 AM by bigtree
Man, I was really feeling the election about a week ago. I was giddy and on air. I'm just feeling anxious and angry right now, though. To some, the result of that anxiety is me just stirring the pot unnecessarily. I sure it's just the inevitable awakening of my own weathered political defenses to continue to dig and criticize, even after our stellar victory.
I have a good amount of faith in our Democrats, from the President-elect on down . . . But, I'm anxious for a full-on fight against the republican party and membership who I regard as completely unprincipled and terminally unconcerned with anything outside of their own privileged preservation in power.
I'm waiting for the emerging Obama administration to start treating the republican party as the rival we all know them to be at the heart of any of their despicable, corporatist politics, and not as some 'gentleman's club' with whom we happen to disagree.
I'm expecting to be disappointed; not necessarily by the intentions of the Obama administration, but by the response of the thoroughly corrupted political system Obama has said he intends to play to with such care and comity.
I'm looking for the fight. I make no apologies for that, even if it threatens someone's sense of a 'honeymoon' for our new president. As Obama said in the campaign, they aren't going to relinquish power willingly. To me, there's no sense in just asking anyone to concede their political positions . . . especially not the dishonest republican class of legislators in place now.
But, I've been overruled on that point by the election, in a sense. Barack Obama is pledged to cooperate with the republicans to effect the changes he's promised to work for. But, I don't believe he can get there by just 'reaching out' to the obstructionists.
I could be wrong. But, I am still pissed. And, I'm not in any mood to listen to republican drivel presented as legitimate policy - even in the context of cooperation. Of course, I'll have to 'wait and see' what the new administration ultimately does . . . like the rest of us. I've never been good at just sitting around waiting for others to act or speak out, though . . .
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