I just started reading “Reagan’s Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All” by some cat named Craig Shirley. Five pages into the book, if I didn’t know any better, I would say he was talking aboot the 2008 election with tails of Republican whoas and how the party was finished and the social conservatives were destroying everything, and so on.
Only instead of 2008, he was talking aboot 1974…complete with the New York Times writing the EXACT SAME editorials three decades ago as they did three months ago.
History has a habit of repeating itself is what I’m sayin’. Which is why reading things like this warms the cockles of my heart:
House Democrats are warning the party faithful of a difficult election cycle ahead, with as many as 70 party-held seats in danger. “We have a daunting challenge ahead in the 2010 midterm elections,” Democratic House campaign chief Chris Van Hollen says in a year-end Web video thanking supporters. “Many of our new members are from conservative areas with long histories of Republican representation. We are looking at potentially 70 – 70 – threatened Democrats who will need our support.”
Forward looking statements comparing our current mess with past election cycles should not imply that we don’t have what the ancient Egyptians referred to as a “shitload” of work to do, or that if we sit back and do nothing history will do the rest. We’re going to have to pick and choose our battles over the next two years, find candidates suitable to the region (NY Republican vote for different cats than GA Republicans do, and vice versa), and be ready to fight.
But any chance we have to enjoy a little optimism and look towards that massive government bailout at the end of the rainbow, it’s a good day.
UPDATE: The Papparazzi pictures will definitely help. Look what happened to Brittney when everyone got bored of her.
UPDATE DEUX: Blago! He’s the gift that keeps on giving!
