A big fat "You're Welcome"

The UK Guardian just published an editorial thanking America for rejecting the policies of George W. Bush, and more broadly for rejecting Conservative zealotry. I am trying not to gloat, because the time for gloating will be when democrats make a difference, but it is a challenge with in-your-face arrogant types - those end-zone dancers if you will entertain a football metaphor.

So, I can't claim this Guardian article is an aid to me on the road to self-improvement. It might even be a set-back for me because I obviously enjoyed reading it (to my great shame of course).

I particularly enjoyed this paragraph:

"In US domestic terms, the 2006 midterms bring to an end the 12 intensely divisive years of Republican House rule that began under Newt Gingrich in 1994. These have been years of zealously and confrontational conservative politics that have shocked the world and, under Mr Bush, have sent America's global standing plummeting. That long political hurricane has now at last blown itself out for a while, but not before leaving America with a terrible legacy that includes climate-change denial, the end of biological stem-cell research, an aid programme tied to abortion bans, a shockingly permissive gun culture, an embrace of capital punishment equalled only by some of the world's worst tyrannies, the impeachment of Bill Clinton and his replacement by a president who does not believe in Darwin's theory of evolution. The approval by voters in at least five more states of same-sex marriage bans - on top of 13 similar votes in 2004 - shows that culture-war politics are far from over."

I hope I haven't corrupted your own efforts at self-improvement.

Full article here