After the Thumpin'
William Safire
NYT, 11/09/06
WHY all the glum faces?" President Bush asked at the opening of yesterday's news conference.
Though the assembled reporters were hardly glum, conservatives of every stripe can console themselves by considering the limited scope of the Democrats' midterm sweep.
Despite the pervasive weariness with the war and the high tide of irritation at Bush's steadfastness; despite the general disgust at the policy paralysis and ethical laxity in the wake of muscle-bound one-party control -- the result was only the average loss of House and Senate seats of the party in power midway in the second term of a president.
"Despite the pervasive weariness with the war and the high tide of irritation at Bush's steadfastness..."
Heh. Mr. Safire may be an excellent wordsmith, but generally for words to have any meaning they have to be somehow connected to reality.
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I've tried a link but you may have to be a subscriber for access.
It's just so perceptive of Mr. Safire to have noticed that the takeover of Congress, governorships and state houses this week by the Democrats reflect their "irritation with Bush's steadfastness."
And Mr. Safire goes on, essentially creating an essential mini-reference work for other conservatives on how to spin away into their own personal Disneyesque delusions what just happened.
Keep it like this, Bill. This is precisely what we want the remaining Republicans to think across the next two years. Because then -- you think they're in shock now, do ya -- then they won't know what the fuck wiped the rest of them out in 2008, and they'll be left standing in puddles of their own piss.