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The monster years

Last night wasn’t just a victory for tolerance; it wasn’t just a mandate for progressive change; it was also, I hope, the end of the monster years.

What I mean by that is that for the past 14 years America’s political life has been largely dominated by, well, monsters. Monsters like Tom DeLay, who suggested that the shootings at Columbine happened because schools teach students the theory of evolution. Monsters like Karl Rove, who declared that liberals wanted to offer “therapy and understanding” to terrorists. Monsters like Dick Cheney, who saw 9/11 as an opportunity to start torturing people.

And in our national discourse, we pretended that these monsters were reasonable, respectable people. To point out that the monsters were, in fact, monsters, was “shrill.”

Four years ago it seemed as if the monsters would dominate American politics for a long time to come. But for now, at least, they’ve been banished to the wilderness.

Keep pounding.

Most polictical pundits regurgitate the the predictable blah, blah, blah of Washington.  I liked this one not because there is anything new, but because it is an interesting Washington couple of the influential class.  Todd Purdum fommerly of the NY Times and now Vanity Fair wrote a scathing piece on post presidential Bill Clinton recently.  Billy Boy called Purdum a scumbag.  Ouch.  In this video he is in a conversation with his wife Dee Dee Myers, of course,  who worked closely with Bill. 

This will be me and Diane after I retire.  Sit on the couch talking about shit we don’t know anything about. Load the video onto a blog nobody sees.  Just got to get me a video camera. Ah, life will be sweet.