From the estimable Charles P. Pierce:
We have elected an ungovernable collection of snake-handlers, Bible-bangers, ignorami, bagmen and outright frauds, a collection so ungovernable that it insists the nation be ungovernable, too. We have elected people to govern us who do not believe in government.
We have elected a national legislature in which Louie Gohmert and Michele Bachmann have more power than does the Speaker of the House of Representatives, who has been made a piteous spectacle in the eyes of the country and doesn't seem to mind that at all. We have elected a national legislature in which the true power resides in a cabal of vandals, a nihilistic brigade that believes that its opposition to a bill directing millions of new customers to the nation's insurance companies is the equivalent of standing up the the Nazis in 1938, to the bravery of the passengers on Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, and to Mel Gibson's account of the Scottish Wars of Independence in the 13th Century. We have elected a national legislature that looks into the mirror and sees itself already cast in marble.
We did this. We looked at our great legacy of self-government and we handed ourselves over to the reign of morons.As Pierce goes on to say, don't expect any of this to change in an electoral tsunami any time soon. It's taken 50 years to get us to this point and it may take another 50 to get us out. We have too many people invested in making sure dots aren't connected and blame is evenly distributed =cough= mainstream media =cough= for fingers to be pointed in the right direction. It's going to be a long struggle against the ungovernable collection noted above, and to restore the notion that government can work in the public interest once "the reign of morons" is ended.
