As I’ve mentioned before, the past year has been a dark one for Liberals. After Obama so disappointed the Liberal True Believers that many of them decided to sit out last year’s midterm elections, the GOP romped into the House of Representatives and took over numerous state capitols. And there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
I have become impatient over the past few years with the concept of “buyer’s remorse.” This notion pops up anywhere a freely elected Republican legislative majority and a freely elected Republican governor get together and put in place policies of the sort they were freely elected to enact. Suddenly, vast numbers of people see Republicans behaving like Republicans and profess themselves shocked – SHOCKED! – to find that there is wingnuttery going on in here. We’ve seen this with Walker in Wisconsin, Kasich in Ohio, Rick Snyder in Michigan and Rick Scott in Florida. And, “But they didn’t say they were going to do this when they ran!” is a vain and witless excuse. Republicans do what Republicans do.
Look, folks. Everybody knew who was behind Walker in Wisconsin, and why they were behind [him.] The same is true of Kasich and Snyder and all the rest of them. Hell, Rick Scott was a convicted felon. Anyone who didn’t know any of this either wasn’t paying attention, or didn’t give enough of a damn for it to matter and voted for those guys anyway, which, come to think of it, fairly well sums up what happened in the 2010 midterms. The country handed itself over to ignorance and apathy and let those two scamps run amok in the process of self-government. The country doesn’t get to wake up, blinking, in 2011 and wonder how all this happened. (emphasis in the original)
So . . . thanks Liberal True Believers! You guys sure made the right call, staying away from the polls out of spite because Obama didn’t turn out to be super-special liberal enough for you.
Jerks.
