If there's a great and common point of wonderment among the American people today, it would have to be, "What now?"
What is there to do with such solid majorities in both Houses of Congress except watch? Who is there to rail against? What dastardly issues could possibly assume the front burner? These questions are all fair even if the answers, like life, are not.
Don't know.
I will certainly miss the greatest political foil ever devised, George W. Bush, now that he's left office. (And I mean left it - this guy isn't like Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton or even Nixon. You won't see him making speeches or hammering nails; Dubya's gone.)
Don't care.
Still, there's something to be said for grinding the old bootheel into the back of your opponent's neck while you've got him down, and you'll find a lot of that here, if only because of principle. I forget but I don't forgive.
Don't look.
Look, this isn't a movie. It's nowhere near as simple as driving a wooden stake through the GOP's heart. It's not enough to sever the head, stuff its bloody mouth with holy wafers, and bury it in consecrated ground. That, in and of itself, would never work.
Don't mind.
It's funny to me that an insurance company will not sell you a policy to protect you against the Republicans, to make you whole in the event that their policies devastate your life. Such would be textbook bad business, a fool's wager, akin to picking the Detroit Lions to win a football game.
Doesn't matter.
Think about that. They'll sell you homeowners insurance if you build in a flood plain, or on a muddy hillside, or in a brushy desert canyon. They'll sell you auto insurance even though there are thousands of car accidents every day in this country. Indemnification from right-wing lunacy?
Some chances are just not taken.
pH 1.24.o9
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