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In The Last Throes, Judiciously
David Michael Green

David Labowitz, an insurance salesman here , said he voted for Mr. Bush in 2004 and was eager for the next election to come along so he could rectify what he called his mistake. “I am a registered Republican,” Mr. Labowitz said, “but I am so embarrassed to be a registered Republican.” (New York Times, July 9, 2007)

Imagine a burning building, with the people inside scrambling to find the exits.

Now imagine that building located on the deck of a large ship, isolated in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, riddled with gaping holes and sinking fast.

Keep that image in your mind, and add to it the tsunami that is fast approaching the ship’s location.

It will get there soon, but not before the Enola Gay, which is buzzing overhead with a special delivery item in its payload.

Got that picture in your mind? Welcome to the Republican Party, July 2007.

Or, the “Grand Old Party”, as our regressive friends like to call it. Old? Sure – as old as greed itself. Party? Well, there ain’t a lot of celebrating going on in its vicinity, but if you mean a congregation of ever-narrowing numbers of people aggregated around certain political ideas, however ridiculous they may be, well then, sure, this is a party. But grand? Only in the scale of its current mess.

If you’ve got any political antennae at all, any sensitivity to the moods and trends of American politics, you can’t help but conclude that it is all collapsing fast, and with it as well many of the multiple enablers who have assisted in bringing us this ugliest of disasters these last years. It’s all coming apart now, bursting its tawdry seams, and doing so not only with a tremendous rapidity, but with even a tremendous increase in the rate of rapidity.

What a week it has been.

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