So, it's over. Bush returns to the White House. They own the House, the Senate, and very shortly the Supreme Court.
Not a whole we can do about any of that today. What we can do is start planning the counterattack. The own the government, they get all the responsibility. Is there a single person on this site who thinks that a Republican dominated federal government with Bush at it's head is going to meet with anything but international, economic, and environmetal disaster? I didn't think so. That means we have to make sure that every bad thing that happen in America in the next four year get's tattooed on Bush's forehead.
So:
Start by gutting any Bush hopes for legitimacy, or bipartisanship. Find the places in Florida and Ohio and every other state where a plausible argument for Republican vote fraud can be made. It doesn't matter whether it did happen or not. What matters is if it can be plausibly alleged to marginal Bush supporters and to the media. We also have to let the issue go where it's implausible. Hammering on voter fraud where it's not at least plausible on that level is only going to hurt our credibility. We have to sink our fangs into Republican ankles and hang onto them for dear life on the legitimacy issue. We have to make him "Bush the only American President who was never elected" whether it's true or not.
Second, make sure that every bad news report hurts Bush and the Republican's. If they're in control, which they are, they have no one else to blame. When the CIA report showing that big players in the administration totally blew it on 911, scream it from the rooftops. Every time BushCo turns in another bill for Iraq, scream it from the rooftops. Etc.
Third, and I can't believe how much this hurts to say, but please hear me out before screaming. We have to let them have the big national right wing policy victories that are going to do obvious, and in some cases, long term damage to this country. I don't mean that we shouldn't fight. We have to protest, and write our papers, and filibuster in the Senate. But we also have to acknowledge the reality that we don't hold a single branch of the federal government. Remember, we're the reality based community. And, if we're not ready to start a shooting war then the only way we're going to be able to win at the midterms and in 08 is if all those Bush voters who currently refuse to join the reality based community are hit with reality in a way that hurts them personally. If we can't get at least some of them to switch sides, we will be in deeper trouble than I can imagine. So, brace yourself for a lot of pain. Here's a very short list of things that are liklely to happen: Iraq is going to go to hell. We will probably get a draft. The deficit, combined with the trade imbalance, and the falling dollar is going to rip the shit out of the economy. Liberal social policies are going to be set back a generation at least. Psychotic justices are going to be seated in many courts including the Supreme Court. We may lose Roe V. Wade. Global warming gets another 2-4 years of growth without America doing anything about. More poisons in our air and water. There's more but that's all I can stand to write at the moment. Every one of these things is terrible, and every one has to be hung around the neck of Bush and his Republican allies in Congress, because every one of them is going to hurt at least some of the disbelief in reality crowd. It's going to be very very ugly, but if the Repubs have control, they also get stuck with the blame.
And that's number four. Blame and revenege. For the next two years anything bad that happens to America belongs to the Republicans and we have to make it stick. We have to use that to take back the house and the senate. Then we have to spend two more years nailing every bad thing to George Bush's feet so that he sinks to the very bottom of the sea of shit he's creating and stays there for eternity. We need to make sure that by the end of a second term he's already being singled out by historians as the worst president America has ever seen. The next two years must be seen to be the absolute nadir of American history and all the blame needs to land on the Republicans like a million tons of wet turds.
So, deep breaths people. Cry if you have to. Throw up. Break something. Be ready for more pain than you think you can stand. Then use that pain. Make the bastards pay for the tears. Send them the bill for the china that gets thrown at the wall. Force them to own every damn bit of the damage they do to our country and sink them with it. It's going to be a nasty vicious war to win back our government, but we have to fight smart and win it. We haven't got a choice, do we?