That epidemic of projectile vomiting currently flooding the streets of Washington D.C. with recycled Chardonnay and chunks of Georgetown cocktail party weenies is only one of the more immediate developments generated by Ned Lamont's inspiring triumph tonight. Above all else, Ned Lamont and the people of Connecticut showed the rest of America that government of the people, by the people, and for the people is not a dead cliché, it is the only way we can end this nightmare corrupt politicians, greedy lobbyists, and corporate media liars have plunged us all into.
America and the world watched history being made today by housewives and retail clerks and students and teachers and waitresses and other quiet heroes all across Connecticut. We will never know their names. They will never be interviewed on Hardball, they don't own any Halliburton stock, they've never been wined and dined by K Street lobbyists, they've never cashed a million dollar tax refund check, they don't have a clue who Markos Moulitsas Zúniga is, but they know how much they love their country, and tonight they wrote a shining new page in American history that no one else could have written.
They knew what to write. For far too long, they've seen craven politicians exploit the tragedy of 9/11, they've seen American soldiers betrayed by their own President and Congress, they've seen New Orleans ravaged because of criminal incompetence in Washington, they've seen $500 billion dollars torched to ashes in Iraq, they've seen big oil and drug companies rake in obscene profits while working Americans struggle to survive until their next paycheck, they've seen massive NSA spying, endless corruption, brutal torture of helpless prisoners, combat veterans slandered, our air and water poisoned, brazen electoral fraud, and no explanations from Washington except a pack of lies from a pack of liars.
Ned Lamont, the voters of Connecticut, and the volunteers all across America who poured their hearts and souls into this primary race have made us proud to be Americans again. They understand that our democracy cannot survive unless every one of us actively honors it and defends it, wherever it is threatened. They showed us all that the future of America will not be decided by the projectile vomiters of Washington D.C., it will be decided by people like you and me, in our own towns and cities all across our suffering country, on November 7, 2006.
92 days. Let's make them count. It's our turn to make some history.
Cross-posted on Soapbox4Truth