And to the extent that it is a smack to our post-American President, The One, even more pleasing. (Never liked him; can't bear him now.)
But whether the Republicans --both Tea Partiers and traditionals-- will be able to seize the moment...that is another matter entirely. I wonder if, at this point in our history, Washington has become like old Rome, swallowing up in corruption anyone who shows up, even, or especially, to reform it.
Mark Twain wrote that even after a century of national independence, America had yet to develop a truly indigenous criminal class...as long as you excepted Congress.
When people in my ultraliberal San Francisco world discover that I am not one of them, they sometimes gasp in horror, "You mean, you're a Republican?" "No," I assure them, "Republicans are pussies. Way too liberal for me."
The exchange usually ends right there.
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