Gosh, it's just politics as usual as we head in to another election cycle

reading shit like this, authored by the lying, conservative piece of shit, mort kondracke*, one would think that the current situation in the u.s. is just the usual political roller coaster, a few ups and downs, one party gains in disfavor and the other party looks to seize the opportunity to return to power... nothing much, really, just the inevitable speed bumps and give-and-take of american politics...

a few lowlights...

• The political climate definitely favors Democrats winning back the White House and keeping control of Congress in 2008 -- if they don't squander their advantage by ideological overreaching or incompetence.

• The latest Gallup Poll showed that, by 51 percent to 38 percent, voters prefer to see the White House go Democratic and the likeliest Democratic nominees now beat the likeliest Republicans in head-to-head matchups.

• Democrats ought to be able to retain narrow control of the Senate with 22 GOP seats in play against only 12 for Democrats. Perhaps three Democratic Senators are truly vulnerable, while four or more GOP seats are in that category and retirements could produce more.

• Democratic election experts are fairly confident that their party can retain its House majority, currently 16 seats.

• It's true that Congress' approval ratings are dismal -- at 24 percent, according to Gallup, 8 points below President Bush -- and that confidence in Congress as an institution is at 14 percent, a record low.

• Americans are in a foul mood, as befits a country in the midst of an unpopular war.

• [T]he public wants change above all -- and a good opportunity for Democrats to take back the White House unless other factors intervene.

• Unfortunately, many Democrats are still too far to the left. History could not be clearer on the point: Democrats who win at the national level are the ones who are tough on security, fiscally conservative and responsive to people of faith.

• The bottom line -- at least for now -- is that voters want something different from the divisiveness of the Bush era. Democrats have a glorious opportunity to return to power -- if they don't offer up divisiveness as an alternative.

i'm going to go visit daily kos, because i'll bet someone has a diary up on this, taking kondracke to task for statements like "many democrats are still too far to the left," etc., but i'll bet there's almost nobody who takes issue with his broader perspective that we're just riding the see-saw of politics as usual...

mort, mort, mort... it ain't politics as usual... we're in the midst of the most dangerous period in u.s. history and the very foundations of our democratic, constitutionally-based republic are at stake... i keep waiting to hear SOMEBODY - ANYBODY - stepping up to that issue and pointing out that enormous elephant that's trashing our living room and shitting all over the good furniture...

Morton M. Kondracke (born April 28, 1939) is an American political commentator and journalist. He currently serves as executive editor and columnist for the independent Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call. He is also co-host of The Beltway Boys on Fox News Channel and a regular nightly contributor on Special Report with Brit Hume.

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