Their hubris will run its course.

The question is: when? Listening briefly to Hannity prattle on yesterday about how the real bigots are Democrats and liberals, I wanted to puke. It is clear they seek to gain as much mileage as possible out of their 51% "mandate", essentially declaring the death of liberalism.

This morning I read about a full scale assault on liberals at major universities.

At some point this will run its course, right?

patience is required, but it will happen

first the infighting will start

then the gradual collapse

BOOM! they're dead

why do you have any illusions that anything will change (except
for even more of the same)???

This country is in big trouble if a major watergate caliber scandal doesn't emerge next year to hamstring the Bush agenda for the next four years, and the sooner the better.

will the hubris run its course, or will it blaze a new path?

The biggest reason is that the GOP is trying to move too fast now that they own all the marbles. The majority of Americans do NOT favor the neo-con's foreign policy and do not favor this administrtion's anti-environmental, anti-abortion, corporatist, extreme fundamentalist christian RW policies. They don't. Many voted for Bush because they didn't want to change horses in the middle of a war. Americans are pragmatic that way.

If the Bush administration decided to be more magnimonious, more bipartison, more compassionate in his second term, we'd be in big trouble, but he is incapable of that. The current GOP will begin self-destructing in 2005. Watch. with. glee!

Again, I'm just not sure of the timing and I am saddened that it will take a crises of this magnitude to knock sense into more people.

The deficits, the emergence of the Chinese, aging populations. . .

Yes, they own all the marbles and they are intent upon taking a meataxe to everything that brought this nation from the Great Depression to the most powerful nation the world has ever known.

Such a disruption is relentlessly approaching, never fear, but evidently 1250-odd soldiers killed for a lie isn't grievous enough to bring retribution at the ballot box from these pieces of shit I must call my countrymen. I'd mention the 100,000 Iraqis dead for the same lie, but if these red-state f*ckwads don't care how many Americans die they surely won't be moved by the number of Iraqis.

No, what it'll take is for the morons to get hit in the wallet after all the spin they've bought into of our "booming (:nuke:) economy".
Then you'll see some outrage from these a-holes. Count on it.

This hubris will not run its course. So long as Democrats continue to play the part of Alan Colmes, we are going to continue to be slighted and slandered. Until we start to fight and rip the hell out of the Republicans like they do us we will lose. Plain and simple. "When in Rome, do as the Romans do."

to just watch from the sidelines and wait for it to happen. The Democratic party has to start formulating a comprehensive national plan to take back seats in the House and the Senate in the '06 election. We cannot just allow this runaway train to keep going until it hits a wall. Too much can be done that won't be easily undone. Gleefully enjoying the ultimate demise of your enemy is fine, but not if he is bringing you down with him in the process.

Dear Mr. Secretary: I am writing you to submit my resignation from the Foreign Service of the United States."

With that first sentence of a scathing letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell in February, John Brady Kiesling threw his 20-year government career out the window.....

Kiesling left Athens on a somber note. On his last day, he invited his embassy colleagues to a farewell gathering at the Temple of Nemesis, the goddess of retribution and divine justice. According to Greek mythology, Nemesis, whose name means righteous anger, punishes mortals who transgress divine limits. Joined by about 30 colleagues, Kiesling poured a glass of wine onto the ground as an offering, and then he said a prayer. He asked for salvation for the United States, from its "hubris" and "arrogance."

www.govexec.com/features/0503/0503s2.htm

Ah, the consolations of a classical education--even for this barbarian who only had 2 years of Latin & had to read the Greeks in translation.