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To: Mannie who wrote (136423)	6/11/2008 1:11:49 PM
From: Sea Otter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361250

LOL. I'm definitely going with the GOP in 2008.

To: Mannie who wrote (136423)	6/11/2008 1:16:25 PM
From: SiouxPal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361250

The Party's Over STEVEN WEBER It couldn't be over fast enough. The campaign to determine the Democratic presidential nominee, which despite a coarseness that permeated its penultimate moments, actually provided a higher level of discourse this country has been treated to in years. I'm talking about "the party," the kolossally kataklysmic kegger thrown by those zany Republicans. Don't let their decades-long dominance of swaggering hypocrisy and crass capitalist-fascism clad in two-button Brooks Brothers tweeds sporting Old Glory lapel pins fool you into thinking they can't rave it up. When did you ever think you'd hear the word "trillion" used seriously? And so much bathroom sex! Twenty three skidoo! I mean the kind of thick-skulled braggadocio that characterized America's behavior to the rest of the thinking world. I mean the assemblage of the most unimaginative, unthinking, underhanded putzes who ever hijacked a government and made it into (by sheer dint of will and happenstance) a bruised, bumbling and broken behemoth, foisting their bitter beliefs on us and endangering everyone's lives, including -- dumbasses that they are -- their own. When Bush the Younger was dropped like a poison pill into the world's water supply, the end, though painful, was thankfully near. The neocons latched onto the bloated citizenry and sucked to engorgement, leaving the once compliant suckee no choice but to finally dislodge them. True awareness peaks in the moments when death looms and America marshaled its reserves and rallied. Hence, we are here, today, at this historic, very human nexus of need and opportunity. It's a growth moment like you'd see in your kids when they figure out how to tie a shoe or viscerally grasp riding a bike. And while thousands, millions of people were victimized by BushCo's greed and fatal pomposity and payback would seem by all rights proper, if all that would happen is their disappearance from the scene with only history to record their deeds, well then fine. Their presence has distracted us for too long and, should they ever develop them, their restless, guilty consciences will be sufficient torment. Yep, the party's over. So long, DeLay, Hastert, Ashcroft, Gonzales. So long Rummy and Dick and Doug and Turd Blossom and Ari and Dana. So long King George. So long Condi and Tenet and L. Paul and Wolfie. Don't let the door hit you on the way out. Even when they are all expelled to Dubai or Fox News or wherever the heck rascals and rogues congregate, there will still be the mother of all hangovers to contend with. But this sort of discomfort just might be what the doctor ordered, for with it comes clarity of purpose, our global role put in proper perspective, the remission of confusion, the resumption of reason and a future for hope. The place will have to be tented and fumigated, but it belongs to us now. Phew. I thought they'd never leave. huffingtonpost.com