omgwtf!

Just reading that article, and seeing and hearing and feeling the new tone that people are exhibiting with this administration suddenly, reminded me of the fact that these years of hell are over, at least for now. They are over.

Never again will the Bush administration be able to blithely roll their tanks over the wants and needs, requests and demands of the people of the United States. Never again will this man use the world as his toilet.

The terrible reign has ended.

Whether the Democratic will be able to act with the leadership they have lacked so severely for so long is a story for the future, one that will be unfurling day by day by day.

But the victory of this past election is overwhelming me. I think of it, and often I shed a few tears of relief and of gratitude that my hopes were not unfounded once again. I had grown so pessimistic, so angry, so disillusioned, so bitter, never daring to let myself do more than just think about the possibility that the people of this country would finally act to change this, to stop what was going on, to remember that we are supposed to be the land of freedom and democracy. We are a Republic, yes. But we are a democratic one. Or at least we were until this administration came along - and then things went horribly wrong.

But even with our horrible communal memory, on Tuesday we showed that enough of us remembered the power that we had to make a change. Voters turned out in record numbers, 40 percent of voters, in fact, a huge number, to kick these bastards back to the curb and give them the resounding slap they have needed for so long now.

And I keep remembering that. It will occur to me out of nowhere and the waves of relief and gratitude and vindication will crash over me and at times it’s overwhelming.

This administration has been stopped dead in its tracks. We dont even have to wait until January; Bush’s own party has deserted him. He will never be able to wreak havoc ever again. He has been neutralized. He should just go back to his ranch and spend the last two years of his filthy mockery of a presidency on vacation like he wants to.

I’ve got no problem at all with my tax money paying him a salary if he promises to never make another governmental decision for the rest of his worthless life. Him, and his select band of thugs.

The future is uncertain. But this week, we’ve won. Before we return to reality I’m going to savour it, roll in it, glory in it. I’ll give myself this weekend. After all this time, I deserve a celebration before getting back to the business of bitching about the government. So do we all.

It’s over. The Wicked Witch is dead. We can breathe again. The House has landed, and it is blue and filled with Senators, and we are, for the moment, entitled to our well-earned rest.

He’ll never be able to hurt us - really hurt us - ever again.