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Today's 'This Modern World'. I was thinking about this last night, actually, that kicking ass in the 2006 election is all well and good but god I am so Bushwhacked. I can't believe we have another two years of this administration to survive. And the new Supreme Court, sans O'Connor and a more conservative court than we've seen in a long time, is firing up, so there's a lot of reason to be anxious, worried, unsettled. (And note within the article - Texas remains an official no-talking-about-yer-dildo zone. Christ, of all the places in the world that could USE some statewide mind-blowing sex.... *sighs*)
But on the editorial page, the NYT is taking the Repubs to task over the Foley mess and trying to remind us of why the midseason election matters and I guess it's encouraging. The link is here, but full text is behind the cut in case you haven't registered. ( Read more... )
I don't know, I feel like liberals in the US just feel stunned and beaten down and sort of too numb to hope properly. Sometimes I look at this country and this administration and I just honestly can't believe it's come to this and I just want to despair. I imagine Election Day 2008 as one of those crisp, clear fall mornings when you can almost feel the turning of time in the air, and I imagine us all hopeful and buoyant because hurrah, it's finally over, and we made it! But that's two years away, and these next two years are going to be a lot of difficult work and I'm pretty sure it's going to get worse before it's over and god, I just wish it could be November 2008.
The only good thing is that it will be a long time, I hope, before voters look at the two major party candidates and consider them virtually interchangable.
But on the editorial page, the NYT is taking the Repubs to task over the Foley mess and trying to remind us of why the midseason election matters and I guess it's encouraging. The link is here, but full text is behind the cut in case you haven't registered. ( Read more... )
I don't know, I feel like liberals in the US just feel stunned and beaten down and sort of too numb to hope properly. Sometimes I look at this country and this administration and I just honestly can't believe it's come to this and I just want to despair. I imagine Election Day 2008 as one of those crisp, clear fall mornings when you can almost feel the turning of time in the air, and I imagine us all hopeful and buoyant because hurrah, it's finally over, and we made it! But that's two years away, and these next two years are going to be a lot of difficult work and I'm pretty sure it's going to get worse before it's over and god, I just wish it could be November 2008.
The only good thing is that it will be a long time, I hope, before voters look at the two major party candidates and consider them virtually interchangable.
