Now that Obama has been elected, I am positively swooning with ideas on how to exact revenge and carry forward my leftist divisiveness to the end! The end I tells ya!
Oh I have a plan and no one is going to stop me now, not Obama or the Senators who feel -- and rightfully so! -- that all I care for is revenge! Revenge, I say!
Yep, I am a member of the ever-starving Democratic base, and I have plenty to say about revenge. Those Repubs and moderates ought to be shaking in their shoes because I'm about to lay out my own agenda, coming forth into the light after eight years of darkness. Revenge is nigh!
First, I'm going to support universal health care, that'll show 'em. Those nasty wingnuts are going to be cursed with adequate health care! I guess that's where the "universal" part comes in.
Then I'm going to support the environment, working to make sure people have clean air to breathe and clean water to drink, and oh boy I'd sure love to see some commitment to saving New Orleans and the wetlands, even though Louisiana didn't go for Obama, that'll show 'em!
Good schools for all children and affordable ways to go to college, don't try to stop me, I'm on fire!
I guess all these things are socialist, but then I'm a lefty, so may as well add "socialist" to "divisive," "partisan" and "vengeful."
Of course I also care about social justice, a woman's right to choose, migrant workers not being tortured as though they were terrorists (and I don't want to torture the terrorists either, I'm such a dangerous lefty!), equal opportunity for everyone, gay marriage, I am so radical I can barely stand myself! For these are all such radical notions, of course. And vengeful!
I will support us getting out of Iraq and stopping the air bombing of Afghanistan which kills too many civilians, yeah, I am filled with hate!
I will strongly support investigations into what government and business have done over these past eight years because I believe I as a citizen am entitled to know this information. I believe transparency is an urgent need in our society so we can all make up our minds as to what is acceptable and what is not, something we can't do without real information. Yeah, I know that's hateful of me, wanting the truth and all.
I am a weary and starving member of the Democratic base. Howard Dean and Barack Obama will do their jobs. My job is to stay an informed citizen, work hard for the issues I believe in, and of course, the most important ... REVENGE! HATE! DIVISIVENESS!
Yeah, right.