Ding Dong The Witch is Dead

Okay class, who can explain to me the difference between pulling down that huge statue of Saddam Hussein over in Iraq and what happened here after the midterm elections went democratic?

" Yes Harold, I see you've got your hand up, what do you see as the main distinction?"

"Well Saddam Hussein was a vicious, cruel dictator and our country is a place where freedom rings."

"Thank you Harold for that illuminating insight, but I'm sorry, that is not the correct answer here. You see, you've failed to see the much larger picture that's emerged."

The answer class is there is no difference. Yes Iraq was under the thumb of a violent despot but why did it take this election for the democrats and our news reporters and our media and all the honest common folk of this great country to finally find the nerve to stand up and say what's been on their minds all along.

We have been and continue to be under the thumb of one of our most damaging, dictatorial presidents ever to roam the Oval Office, and no one before now, after six scary, scary years, has had the statesmen temerity to stand up to Bush and his Senator McCarthy like tactics.

Now that our country is back supposedly in the hands of sane, rational men and women who aren't sexually inhibited to the point they turn into Dr. Jekyll by day and Mr. Hyde by night, and can walk and chew gum at the same time, and understand the mandate put forth by our forefathers about keeping church and state s-e-p-a-r-a-t-e.... NOW, all of a sudden everyone has discovered they have their own mind and a mouth to speak what is on their mind and not what they think they have to say to stay in the good graces of King George.

Where were all these cowards before the election? I'll tell you - hiding behind their false tongues, afraid of being beat up after class by the school bully. As much as I wanted to see our congress blueagain, I am ashamed for these people - who are now first coming forward - and proudly facing the cameras and readily speaking what should have been said a very long time ago.

The juxtaposition of watching Saddam Hussein's statue come tumbling down as a symbol to the people of Iraq urging them to finally come of their hiding places and see for themselves there's no longer any reason to be afraid or scared, and recently watching all the house and senate Dem's gingerly walking over to a reporter's microphone and standing up straight and saying what he or she really wants to say to this country is at the very least, quite jarring to my sense of what is all wrong and all right about our government's system.