Meanwhile, the Jacksonians
Wow. I know I agree with Dean - and Ron Silver - about the war and its importance compared to other issues. And I am truly happy for Joe Lieberman in a totally non-partisan way. I fully supported Bill Buckley's column the other day in support of Joe. (
Dean)
But in keeping with my last post, we see this video with Silver, and I realize:
America won last night.
We could have won bigger - for instance if Harold Ford and Michael Steele had both won, we'd be looking at the same numbers as today, but with drastically different results - but America did win nonetheless. The Democratic Party took a huge step last night toward reality and away from insanity. The little snip I heard from Nancy Pelosi on the radio this morning seemed genuinely gracious in victory, calling for us to "work together" and find "a common solution for Iraq". It remains to be seen if they keep walking in the right direction, and it's not like I'll be voting Democrat anytime soon. I dread to think what the rest of her speech might have been. But it's good that we're no longer looking at a disintegrating second party in a two party system.
And yes, I'm still calling you "the second party", Democrats. I recall quite distinctly you making this claim, after you lost in 1994: just because of one election, you can't claim you're the majority party in America again, especially after being completely out in the wilderness for so long.
As our newly re-elected governor in California might say: We'll be back.
