calexical (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} calexical) wrote,@ 2006-11-08 23:42:00 |
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How many nerdy parties do you think are going on in Washington right about now?
The Democrats took Congress, and I'm... happy.
Wow. I still have some idealism left that I didn't pluck out with a political science degree and past newspaper opinion-section-editorship. I still really don't like the Republican party, and want them to lose.
True, two years ago I would have been overjoyed, but I'll take what I can get right now. Two years ago, I also wouldn't have been able to point out that the shape of the Republican Party is so unbelievably awful right now that voters preferred to give control of both houses of Congress to a party whose most significant airtime was hogged by a clip of their last presidential candidate — who wasn't even running for anything — which made him sound like he thinks the troops are the deadbeat castaways of the American midway.
It occurs to me I've never seen Bush in defeat. That is, defeat he can't ignore or pretend is victory because it's too far away and nebulous to know for sure. He's not a very gracious loser, is he? More fuel for my theory that his main motivation for running for the Presidency in the first place was sheer competitiveness. I don't say that as an insult, I'm a competitive bastard. But he's competitive in a bad way, the way I used to be. He likes winning, and he likes knowing people like him, so he surrounds himself with the best, campaigns his ass off using all the marketable qualities he's got, usually avoids crowds where he knows he's not getting a favorable reception, and blusters his way through the hostile crowds he's unwillingly forced to appear in front of. Once he's won, he coasts. Which means he never understands why there are hostile crowds, and is never forced to hone his arguments, his opinions, or his instincts in front of people who will tear at the slightest chink in them, and is never motivated to really lead, in anything. He's terminally uncurious, the value of the Presidency is that it is difficult to obtain, not the opportunities it presents. He already obtained it, twice (that sounds dirty) and the shine was off a while ago (dirty again!) so if there's an easy way to dispense with his duties, you can bet he'll find it.
Anyway, it eases my heart a bit to know that government is no longer a three-branch Republican circle-jerk. Go home Rick Santorum, and wallow in how easily ones legacy can be co-opted by a little wikipedia entry connecting your name to dirty sex. Stings doesn't it, you misogynist tool?
The Democrats took Congress, and I'm... happy.
Wow. I still have some idealism left that I didn't pluck out with a political science degree and past newspaper opinion-section-editorship. I still really don't like the Republican party, and want them to lose.
True, two years ago I would have been overjoyed, but I'll take what I can get right now. Two years ago, I also wouldn't have been able to point out that the shape of the Republican Party is so unbelievably awful right now that voters preferred to give control of both houses of Congress to a party whose most significant airtime was hogged by a clip of their last presidential candidate — who wasn't even running for anything — which made him sound like he thinks the troops are the deadbeat castaways of the American midway.
It occurs to me I've never seen Bush in defeat. That is, defeat he can't ignore or pretend is victory because it's too far away and nebulous to know for sure. He's not a very gracious loser, is he? More fuel for my theory that his main motivation for running for the Presidency in the first place was sheer competitiveness. I don't say that as an insult, I'm a competitive bastard. But he's competitive in a bad way, the way I used to be. He likes winning, and he likes knowing people like him, so he surrounds himself with the best, campaigns his ass off using all the marketable qualities he's got, usually avoids crowds where he knows he's not getting a favorable reception, and blusters his way through the hostile crowds he's unwillingly forced to appear in front of. Once he's won, he coasts. Which means he never understands why there are hostile crowds, and is never forced to hone his arguments, his opinions, or his instincts in front of people who will tear at the slightest chink in them, and is never motivated to really lead, in anything. He's terminally uncurious, the value of the Presidency is that it is difficult to obtain, not the opportunities it presents. He already obtained it, twice (that sounds dirty) and the shine was off a while ago (dirty again!) so if there's an easy way to dispense with his duties, you can bet he'll find it.
Anyway, it eases my heart a bit to know that government is no longer a three-branch Republican circle-jerk. Go home Rick Santorum, and wallow in how easily ones legacy can be co-opted by a little wikipedia entry connecting your name to dirty sex. Stings doesn't it, you misogynist tool?
