Funny how all the names you named are conservatives. So are we to assume
that conservatives are monsters, and liberals are not?

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Gruss Gott wrote:

> 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.
>
>


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