Working together

I'm sure the irony of the old standard concession and victory speeches isn't lost on YWA readers: now we all have to set aside our differences and work together. Sure. That isn't happening, people. That idea is a fossil. In fact, I don't think I've seen it in my lifetime, and this administration, this Republican Congress, this era's Americans, are on the opposite side of the line from working together. We are all about the sword and the crusade, driving out the heathens and evildoers from our midst. And evildoers include anyone who disagrees with God's plan, as he has revealed it to the righteous -- that means YOU, you damned liberal. Besides, I certainly don't want to work together with them on the Righteous Right's agenda. Do you? And if Senator Kerry intends to do so, all you Democrats have just been sold down the river.

LaBelle sends a link this morning to Maureen Dowd's column. And Maureen "gets it".

With the Democratic Party splattered at his feet in little blue puddles, John Kerry told the crushed crowd at Faneuil Hall in Boston about his concession call to President Bush.

"We had a good conversation," the senator said. "And we talked about the danger of division in our country and the need, the desperate need, for unity, for finding the common ground, coming together. Today I hope that we can begin the healing."

Democrat: Heal thyself.

W. doesn't see division as a danger. He sees it as a wingman.

And here's the new wingmen in Congress we get to go with the Great Divider....

Tom Coburn, the new senator from Oklahoma, has advocated the death penalty for doctors who perform abortions and warned that "the gay agenda" would undermine the country. He also characterized his race as a choice between "good and evil" and said he had heard there was "rampant lesbianism" in Oklahoma schools.

Jim DeMint, the new senator from South Carolina, said during his campaign that he supported a state G.O.P. platform plank banning gays from teaching in public schools. He explained, "I would have given the same answer when asked if a single woman who was pregnant and living with her boyfriend should be hired to teach my third-grade children."

John Thune, who toppled Tom Daschle, is an anti-abortion Christian conservative - or "servant leader," as he was hailed in a campaign ad - who supports constitutional amendments banning flag burning and gay marriage. [Ed. Thune's campaign was also charged and barred from intimidation tactics they were using on Native Americans.]

Get ready, sinners. The wrath of God is about to fall on your heads. Judgment day is here.