Everyone who hangs around DailyKos has immensely enjoyed the spectacle of the Republican party and the conservative movement imploding on itself.
Who could not enjoy it, after eight years of numerous fiascoes and crimes, and a Republican Congress whose highlights include the Clinton impeachment and the Terry Schaivo affair.
The campaign for the RNC chaiman has turned into a circular firing squad. Alexander Burns in Politico notes:
"Some people are pissed off at [Americans for Tax Reform President] Grover [Norquist]. Some people are pissed off at the Conservative Steering Committee. Some people are pissed off at [current RNC chair] Mike Duncan. Some people are pissed off at social conservatives. The social conservatives are pissed at leaders in Congress," said a Republican consultant who has worked with the RNC. "Everyone is basically pissed."
We should hold off on our celebration.
Progressives and the Democratic Party both need a coherent credible opposition. The country needs political and intellectual competition.
It is human nature that any organization which has untrammeled power will, over time, become arrogant, ineffective and corrupt. Democrats fell into this trap thirty years after the New Deal. Republicans did the same, but took less time to do it. Perhaps because they had no desire to govern, just to tear down the government.
Well, what can we liberals do besides observe on the sidelines? What we can do is engage the Republicans who have coherent credible thoughts, even if we disagree with them, rather than dismissing any idea just because it come from Republicans.
This is rather difficult to do at the moment, as the GOP seems to be marching to Rush Limbaugh's drum, but we can still try -- Obama is.
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