The news keeps getting worse for GWB and cabal. Even after efforts to prop up his image post-Katrina/Rita, GWB's approval slipped even further into the sub-forty-percent category in the latest NBC/WSJ poll. Is it time to get ready for some street dancing? Is it time to rub some repub noses in a bucket of their own shit? Oh God, I want to. Visions of Rove being frog-marched, Delay paraded around in an orange jumpsuit, Frist getting bitch-slapped by the SEC get me downright giddy.
So, I see the light at the end of the tunnel. I see the last shreds of political power being stripped from the hands of the worst f**ng president ever. Multiple white house indictments will send him plunging into the abyss that he nearly pushed us into.
Yeah, there is still damage GWB can do. Iraq is one huge mess that could get real nasty. Harriet Meirs could be James Dobson in a skirt and my kids could end up attending a public school where science is branded as blasphemy and chastity belts will be required attire.
However, things could have been worse, a lot worse. Three years with GWB in a position to exercise significant political influence makes me shudder. So, I want to breathe a sigh of relief and start hoping for dem resurgence in 2006 and 2008 that could put the dems back in power.
A thought (or possibly a brain fart) passed through my foggy noggin though as I read GWB's poll numbers today. I started to think that this victory may be too easy.
This thought arrived because I remembered the multitude of diaries and conversations here and elsewhere that declared the need to reform the dem party because party leaders abandoned core liberal/progressive principles for political expedience. Republican-lite defined too much of the dem leadership and dem policy agenda. It seemed like the extended pain of republican power would provide the catalyst for some serious reevaluation of the dem party.
However, the accelerating political free-fall of GWB and his party could short-circuit this reevaluation. A rapid return to power by the dems seems likely to push a dem party reassessment into the "shut the f**k up" category. So, I wonder whether we might get our victory dance without the democratic party reform so many, including me, believe is necessary.