Has An Election Ever Approached More Slowly Than This One?

[Demeter]

As one grows older, time is supposed to speed up, as the years pass on a seemingly monthly basis. But this election cycle I feel stuck in time, in the quagmire that is Iraq, is New Orleans, is a stagflation economy, is a replay of the last 30 years of GOP misrule: Watergate, Iran/Contra, the Contract on America. The first time was the farce, and this time is the tragedy, another trend turned topsy-turvy.

I remember feeling this way during the Iranian hostage crisis, when I wondered why Reagan's people weren't thrown into jail for conspiring with the mullahs to hold hostages until Reagan's inauguration. Or when Nixon was blindsided by the Oil Embargo, and forced out of Vietnam against his will, and then later, the White House itself.

I think the waiting, and the level of economic suffering in this country is driving those less stable among us to grab guns and start blasting away, as relief from tension unseen, unheard and even unnamed, that radiates out from the Hill and colors the sky gray.

Waiting for GetOut, the new surreal drama that is Washington, DC.

[fooj]

1. And as soon as the 2008 is over...

the campaigning will begin for 2010. It certainly is a BRILLIANT way to keep us all divided, eh?

[tularetom]

2. I don't think they ever started campaigning earlier than this

It's the surest signal yet that the whole country is sick of bush and his minions. He's the lamest of lame ducks because everybody is looking forward to 2009 when his sorry ass is an image in our rear view mirrors. The only hope we have to cling to is that it's only going to be another year and a half.