Bush is now cuffed in the back seat of the cruiser.

[democrank]

Seeing the election night finale was like watching an episode of Cops.

Bad boy, bad boy
whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do
when they come for you?

After years of pilfering, lying, torturing and killing, the authorities in charge finally caught up to George W. Bush. This reverse Robin Hood not only had his bow and arrow confiscated, he got taken into custody....ours. His backroom shenanigans aren`t over for sure, but at least now there are a few monitors looking over his shoulder. Voters installed their own oversight committee and for that I am deeply grateful.

I don`t believe for a minute that Bush`s softened tone is genuine. We may get some clues about that in the near future when he tries to ram Bolton through again or soldify his surveillance program. As Rumsfeld might say, we may not have known what we didn`t know but now we know.

Even some of the architects of the Iraq invasion are jumping ship in after-the-fact face saving maneuvers. Like we can ignore all the death and destruction now because they`ve had a made-for-tv change of heart. Wrong. History books will someday give them their due, no matter how many times Rush Limbaugh writhes in his chair poking fun at folks with Parkinson`s disease, no matter how many times Tony Snow describes the beautiful sunshiny days filtering in on Baghdad`s freedom.

Voters spoke loud and clear, just like a victim of domestic violence does when she finally realizes her bully is more coward than man.....I`m not going to take this anymore.

[we can do it]

1. Bush`s Softened Tone Is As Genuine As His Cowboy Accent

One big fake. I can't stand to listen to the asswipe.

:puke:

[Joe Chi Minh]

3. What an epitome of who the REAL MEN are was provided by

the senate candidates of Virginia. As someone put it, "combat boots trump cowboy boots". It should become a mantra of the Democrats, because that pernicious nonsense about REAL MEN voting Republican needs to be exposed for the sham it is. And hammered home again and again.

Guys like Tucker Carlson, Rush Limbaugh, for instance ?!?! The people who vote Republican are the chickenhawk nerds who lead them, the dark forces behind the miliary-industrial complex who employ the chickenhawk nerds, officers in the military who have more ambition than decency or good sense, and the simple souls who are taken by the notion that Republican = macho.

In past times, as in the UK, there were toffs, mostly "old money" types, who were honourable and decent (if somewhat too materialistic), who were conservatives, but they were inevitably ousted eventually by the more driven, stop-at-nothing, Mammon-worshipping snakes-in-suits. Thanks to the cast of Lon Cheyney's horror film, "Neocon Rampant", the most civilised Socialism could now be properly described as very economically conservative. Not that that would be a compliment. Rather, it would give conservatism a better name. Conserving human beings at the expense of money, rather than the other way around.

On balance, it is clear form Christ's Sermon on the Mount, that liberality is a nobler virtue than prudence, yet it can be a false dichotomy, if the meaning of liberality is taken to include a reckless disregard of the welfare of one's family. There is a place for prudence in relation to the nation's means, as well as a family's. The nation, society, ought to be viewed for what it is, an extended family; and for that matter, the world, as an extension of the nation. "Every man is a part of the continent, a part of the main...". Hard-line conservatives know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Wiser and more humane human beings tend to be more hazy about the prices of things, but know the value (positive or negative) of most things, if not everything.

To varying extents, the most enlightened Western European nations (Old Europe!!!), are exemplars of true prudence, conservatism; but most particularly, the more Socialist ones.

[orpupilofnature57]

2. Ever see Woody Allen's 'Stardust Memories' the man who morphed into

who ever he was talking to ?Impeachment is the only thing that will let us see the real Shrub ,pointing and squirming out of the office he Slid into.

[maddiejoan]

4. That was "Zelig"

Not "Stardust Memories" and it's a brilliant movie

[orpupilofnature57]

5. Thank you

[devinsgram]

6. If only wishes could come true

I'd be wishing that every minute of the day.