SmithAntics

With the vote tallies barely complete (some still in progress), the corporate conservative mainstream media has rolled out the new narrative — a Jedi mindtrick that goes like this:

The Democrats would be lefty looney crazy to do anything short of playing nice with the Republicans. It’s clearly time for reconciliation and an end to partisan strife. No serious Democrat should look backwards at past Republican crimes and failures. What’s done is done. It’s time to move forward and forget about all those pesky war crimes, lies, and abuses of power. Tim Russert, David Broder, and Norah O’Donnell will be very disappointed with any naughty Dems. Don’t even think about it.

And you know what? I for one have no confidence that the Democrats will not fall right into line with what the purveyors of cuntservative conventional wisdom believe to be appropriate and acceptable behavior for the newly empowered Democrats. Over the past decade, the Dems have repeatedly demonstrated their hypersensitivity to the DC media’s channeling of GOP talking points. Shit, Nancy Pelosi has pretty much taken justice off the table. And as Liberal Terrorist Sympathizer commented to me last night, the Dems didn’t win on their own merits; they won because enough people in this country are fed up with the gang of criminals and pedophiles that is the Republican Party.

So my excitement about the shift in power is greatly tempered by my deeply engrained skepticism and contempt for the Democrats. Can you blame me? Until the Dems show me they have the nut to do the right thing, I’m going to assume they are they same wussbags they have been for the past decade at least. Sorry to rain on the parade, but there it is.

We're suckers to believe in these deeply corrupted and demonstrably weak people.