The Party's Over

It couldn't be over fast enough.

The campaign to determine the Democratic presidential nominee, which despite a coarseness that permeated its penultimate moments, actually provided a higher level of discourse this country has been treated to in years. I'm talking about "the party," the kolossally kataklysmic kegger thrown by those zany Republicans. Don't let their decades-long dominance of swaggering hypocrisy and crass capitalist-fascism clad in two-button Brooks Brothers tweeds sporting Old Glory lapel pins fool you into thinking they can't rave it up. When did you ever think you'd hear the word "trillion" used seriously? And so much bathroom sex! Twenty three skidoo!

I mean the kind of thick-skulled braggadocio that characterized America's behavior to the rest of the thinking world. I mean the assemblage of the most unimaginative, unthinking, underhanded putzes who ever hijacked a government and made it into (by sheer dint of will and happenstance) a bruised, bumbling and broken behemoth, foisting their bitter beliefs on us and endangering everyone's lives, including -- dumbasses that they are -- their own.

When Bush the Younger was dropped like a poison pill into the world's water supply, the end, though painful, was thankfully near. The neocons latched onto the bloated citizenry and sucked to engorgement, leaving the once compliant suckee no choice but to finally dislodge them. True awareness peaks in the moments when death looms and America marshaled its reserves and rallied. Hence, we are here, today, at this historic, very human nexus of need and opportunity. It's a growth moment like you'd see in your kids when they figure out how to tie a shoe or viscerally grasp riding a bike. And while thousands, millions of people were victimized by BushCo's greed and fatal pomposity and payback would seem by all rights proper, if all that would happen is their disappearance from the scene with only history to record their deeds, well then fine. Their presence has distracted us for too long and, should they ever develop them, their restless, guilty consciences will be sufficient torment.

Yep, the party's over. So long, DeLay, Hastert, Ashcroft, Gonzales. So long Rummy and Dick and Doug and Turd Blossom and Ari and Dana. So long King George. So long Condi and Tenet and L. Paul and Wolfie. Don't let the door hit you on the way out. Even when they are all expelled to Dubai or Fox News or wherever the heck rascals and rogues congregate, there will still be the mother of all hangovers to contend with. But this sort of discomfort just might be what the doctor ordered, for with it comes clarity of purpose, our global role put in proper perspective, the remission of confusion, the resumption of reason and a future for hope. The place will have to be tented and fumigated, but it belongs to us now.

Phew. I thought they'd never leave.

Comments

[iluvsam]

Testify, Steven! Testify!

It will be great when Obama is elected, and America will finally be able to tell the world (in that Poltergeist voice)....."We're baaaaaackkk!!!"

[Rayscomad]

Ah yes Steven, I can almost smell the clean beautiful air and feel the sunshine on my face. However if it's ok with you I'll just wait in the corner...in the closet.... only peaking out every so often until I'm sure that the monsters under my bed are really, truly, gone.

[patriccio]

"The neocons latched onto the bloated citizenry and sucked to engorgement, leaving the once compliant suckee no choice but to finally dislodge them."

Steven that was beautiful! I also really liked "George the Younger". This article has helped me to begin laughing about the miserable period we have witnessed and the all to clear mess we have to clean up.

[Orlando]

No the party is not over.
There need to be criminal trials for those who betrayed Americas trust and interest.

Let us have the strength to make examples of the people and politicians who committed these crimes so it will never happen again to this nation.

[elizaW]

Steven,

The last thing Obama brings to the table is clarity which I think is what you want. If you had clarity, you'd have to face the world as it is not live in some faux liberal arty world where people join hands and sing "We Shall Overcome". The irony of people like you championing a better world while infusing your comments with hate is the best example of the hypocrisy which is at the core of Obama and his campaign.

[WorkingClass]

Don't stop there eliza. Who is YOUR candidate? And why?

[susanlno]

"if all that would happen is their disappearance from the scene with only history to record their deeds, well then fine."

Great post overall (meaning, not only do I agree with you, but it's really well written); however, I would caution against complacency, i.e., the "getting the bad guys out of the White House is enough" mindset, for two reasons:

(1) Who says they're going? They lost the last two presidential elections, and that never stopped them. Martial law and a canceled 2008 election could be just around the corner.

(2) If we let these criminals off the hook, they'll come back--in fact, a few of them (Dick Cheney and James Baker, just to name two) have already come back from earlier criminal administrations.

[hopeless277]

It's so easy when even the Democratic Speaker of the House is in your corner. It is now clear the GWB has been given free reign by Ms Pelosi to do anything and everything he wants without the slightest consequence. In my opinion, Nancy Pelosi is worse that GWB. She is essentially standing by as he kills more and more people just to get reelected. She is a disgrace. Forget Bush, impeach Pelosi.

[WorkingClass]

http://www.cindyforcongress.org/

Support Cindy Sheehan.

[pastgone]

Well, you're right about one thing. They're going to lose this election by a landslide. And you're right about another. We'll have a hell of a hard job on our hands once they do. But their party isn't done; not by a longshot. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. This corporatists/fascists/right wingers/movement conservatives/tyrants you listed in your article are going to make our job a hell of a lot harder, hindering us every step of the way. We can't relax for an instant, like we did for the past 28 years. Their party might be moving from the White House, but our battle to retake and then remake this country has only just begun.

[magen]

Yeah, let's leave the drunken rich fratboy party with meth addicted gay preachers, gay bathroom sex, and diapers.

Weirdos.

I kinda liked the '90's when Dems were in charge and there was peace, prosperity, and blowjobs from hot, young interns.

[LeeFromVA]

Hot? or chubby?

[graffen48]

She had her moments

[awcbuddy8]

Complaing about flag pins now equals actually wearing flag pins. It's tired and doesn't do anything.

[adamsmith]

Being this brainwashed has to hurt......................

[Chavez08]

Mr. Weber,

You haven't touched on the issue of Blue Dog Democrats (those in the Democrat party who almost always vote Republican)

There are still dozens of these scumbags in both houses who will continue to vote pro-corporate, pro free-trade, anti-worker, anti-consumer and, in order to make effective change, they must be thrown out with the Republicans.

[piquet]

one step at a time...their next.
Think of it like cutting out that 600lb tumor that lady on the Discovery Health. They found teeth and hair in that wad of dough (just an aside to complete the gruesome image). Let us heal from the first BIG surgery. Then go back in to scrape off the moles and unwanted scabs left behind.

[Chavez08]

We'll need plenty of antibiotics for the "Think-tank" and Corporate Media infections left behind.

[thewho77]

What about the Re-Education camps run by the Ministry of Truth.

[Chavez08]

I heard they're laying-off....

[orangepetal]

Yes we wil campaign for Mc Cain and hope that Osama, sorry Obama will not win !
When will you value your freedom like a true American. Obama is not the answer to Bush, there must be another way. Why couldn't you give us someone we could in good faith vote for.

[sws3030]

I am not muslim, but this religious bigotry some of you are trying to use to poison the voting population is getting real old, real fast. You probably consider yourself a christian-and if this is how christians behave, thank goddess I am not one.

[wisechild]

Really enjoyed this post, Steven!

However, I fear the party is not quite over. There has to be a death knell.

I will never trust their exit until the gates of the White House and other D.C. buildings are closed to them and saved from their stink. They may not go quietly.

Like easter eggs in software products, I wonder what little 'surprise nuggets' they will leave behind in addition to what we already know.

Give your support to Obama. He will need it and we need his leadership.

More than anything we need faith in ourselves to clean up this mess, not fall for this BS again and to educate that 1/3 of our fellow citizens who are susceptible to being used and abused again.

[bruce9432]

If the dems win, all I want to know is where is my check?

[RobinLandseadel]

And don't forget to smudge everything on your way in. I'd get me about---say, 200 bundles of white sage, a couple two-three shamans/witches and exorcist or two, about five gallons of Bulgarian rose oil and two or three hundred minions to properly fumigate, sweep and expel all these demonic energies from the White House and Crongress. It's too late to do anything about what used to be the Supreme Court, alas.

[wisechild]

And I would be happy to buy the smudge pot and the sage. I so agree!

Sadly, it would take a lot of sage to cover up the stink they leave behind...

[Garretto]

Steve that was great! Your always fun and inspiring to read. Though I still hope their mere "disappearance from the scene" is still met with some kind of justice; be it jail terms, or at the very least a crippling, spirit killing humiliation that causes their disappearance from the public scene until their funeral coverage.
Thanks, Steve