Shake, Shake, Shake

Well. Did we finally “do it” or did the rest of America finally “get it:? I’m not entirely convinced that the last six years of screaming, foot stamping and pot banging had anything to do with what happened. I think the RNC and the Rethuglican Hate Machine self destructed and I don’t think that our actions had any bearing on what they ultimately did to themselves. We can’t take credit for this. It was a gift and the electorate are notorious Indian givers.

The Democrats don’t have any time to waste standing around congratulating ourselves and doing booty shakin’ happy dances - although a little celebratory post election booty shakin’ is understandable, given our long history of post election tail-between-our-legs slinking . We need to shake it.

Shake it, shake it Shake your groove thing Shake your groove thing, yeah yeah Show 'em how we do it now Shake your groove thing Shake your groove thing, yeah yeah Show 'em how we do it now Show 'em how we do it now

Shake your groove thing Shake your groove thing, yeah yeah Show 'em how we do it now Shake your groove thing Shake your groove thing, yeah yeah Show 'em how we do it now Show 'em how we do it now

Peaches and Herb


The RNC has been shakin’ their collective ass at our faces for years. Those Losers!!

Shake your groove thing Shake your groove thing, yeah yeah Show 'em how we do it now

Okay., thangs sufficiently shook?

Good.

After years of merely shaking their asses at us, the RNC and their minions are going to start showing us their teeth. True, for a while, a few weeks maybe, they will conduct a purge. There will be blood in the water and the strongest Goopers will feast on the weakest. It will cull the herd. The victors will then start looking our way.

Do you remember the last time we had any authority? You may have to think back. A long way. Think early 90s. The Clinton years. Weren’t those good years? Well, not if you were a Democrat. Sucked for us then. Those were the years that “Liberal” became to mean “weak”. Remember Willy Horton?

We must stay focused. We can’t sit back and toast ourselves. We must do the work while we are there to do it. It is going to get hard. Everything that went wrong over the last six years is going to be our fault. We have to fix what can be fixed and we need to do it fast. We can’t just stand there with our hands on our hips and the wind wafting our capes and say “Here we Come To Save The Day!!”, we actually have to save the day.


In November of 2004, after a very different outcome, I pulled myself out of the dogs crate and wiped the tears from my eyes and I wrote:

Nothing has changed. literally, nothing. It's the same place as it was Tuesday morning. If you were all hot to change things, go forth and change things. The same shit is still going on, there is no need to regroup, rethink, redo - keep on doing what you were doing before if you believed in the cause then keep believing. Keep up the phone calls, and emails and petition signing. Just keep moving. Not a damn thing is different today then it was last week at this time. Bad guys doing bad things, stop them! Keep being the good guy, keep up the pressure.

It’s still relevant. There are still some very nasty, very wrong people out there wrapped in our flag and they are still a danger to our rights. The constitution that Shrub and his cronies shred over the past six years is still shredded. - the Patriot Act did not suddenly evaporate. The elections were a good start but they were hardly a giant re-set button. Bushco has dirty dealers everywhere an they are deeply entrenched, true Rumsfeld left on his own, and others will follow, emphasis on some not all. There are a lot of them left and they are going to work against us at every turn. We must all remain alert.

We must also pray that our new representatives don’t fall victim to the same forces that took out the Rethuglicans before them.

But in the mean time?
SNOOPY DANCE OF JOY!!!!