I think one tremendously positive thing Bush Jr. may have done is to have finally ended America's romantic involvement with the putrid rotting legacy of the right wing, pseudo-revolutionary "Reagan revolution."

They can't get away from it.

The Reaganites and the post-Reaganites promised that their ideas, their plans, their schemes would work if only given a chance.

Well, They Got Their Chance.

They had absolute, unchallenged power. The ultra-right wing nut squad finally got their hands on the Presidency, the Supreme Court, the Congress, a majority of State Governorships, I believe a majority of State Legislatures.

They had untrammeled worship directed at them from the major news media. The so-called mainstream news media sat on stories of law-breaking by the President and endlessly promoted reporters, pundits, and editorials which fawned over the President and his insane squad's looniest ideas.

They had their hands on everything which before they had promised had they ever gotten their hands on, they would have set everything 'right'.

And after having possessed maximal, boundless, unchallenged power, they failed.

They threw their agenda hard against the American public, and the public bought it, by a hair, for a moment. But then the globby mass started to unstick itself from the public, and as it slowly gooped its way to the ground, it left a fetid slime trail which the public recognized as dead and offensive matter.

Even their idiotic grassroots followers know that they were betrayed -- the IRS still exists, the Bible isn't back in school, hip hop music still sounds on the airwaves, the Mexicans are still here...

...and worst of all, these bold and beautiful Neo-Fascist Warriors led a majestic war of nobility and tanned and bronzed chests which broke out in the pathetic stink-fest it now is, and the one, the only, the last remaining justification for their claims to Warrior Leadership School washed down the drain.

The Republicans revealed themselves to be failures in the arena of war and martial values. And one good thing we know about popular fascist movements is when they are revealed for their military weakness, their vaunted authoritarian majesty vanishes.

Ha. Ha. Ha. Suffer in your shame and humiliation, O Ye Warriors Who Would Not Serve.

WORST OF ALL: THEY CAN'T BLAME A-N-Y-O-N-E ELSE.

They had absolute, total, unquestioned power. And they were rejected. They were Reagan II, same ideas, twice the steroids, none of the tranquilizers.

And they just hate it. They can't conceive of it. Why aren't people loving them? They had it all!! They were supposed to be loved, to be strong forever!! Everyone hates liberals!! Everyone loves conservatives!! How can they not like us anymore?

Oh, don't get me wrong. There will be a right wing in this country. There may be even the beginnings of a new popular fascist movement among the most-betrayed feeling grassroots right wingers who are obsessed with "illegal immigrants" when it means "brown" and who are actually working class people deeply betrayed by their elites who outsourced their bright futures.

But no longer can they play this game that, "Well, our ideas and bright and brilliant and beautiful and will make America that happy land of the 1920s or 1950s again, if only we had power."

They had power. They had ultimate power. They had complete power. And they tried every one of their crazy ideas and failed openly, publicly, embarassingly.

Enjoy it. It couldn't happen to a worse group of cruel, heartless pseudo-patriots.

Thank you kindly.

One can derive a small satisfaction that the Reaganite counter-revolutionaries finally have been rejected instead of eternally excusing themselves by "what if's".

Plus I can say it's something that occurred to me as soon as Republicans had all 3 branches under Bush Jr. -- yes they could pursue their agenda, but it really was a bunch of loony crap, these things aren't just opinions and harmful policies really will have observable nasty effects, and after some cataclysmic degree of harm wrought on the nation and globe, that crappiness could no longer be hidden or promised away.

Pooter desperately would like to avoid the fact that Republicans did, indeed, control all 3 major branches of government. Not forever. But for years. Americans understand this.

http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/history/one_item_and_teasers/partydiv.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_Divisions_of_United_States_Congresses

Tooter pleez pleez pretty pleez wants the Republicans not to be blamed for their own policies! Especially not when some Democrats go along!

But it is too late, the absolute control of government by Republicans was a terrible, terrible failure, a giant mess, and try as they might they cannot blame anyone else for it.

This makes right wingers very, very angry. Most of the time they can blame someone else for why their ideas go wrong. But this time they cannot. So angry! So mad! Too bad.