Could This Really be the End of the Bush Era?

The following excerpt is from a post on Democratic Underground that really speaks to me. Over the course of the 16 months or so I've been writing this blog, many of the things that liberals like me have always supposed to be true have turned out to be true. Things that earned bloggers like me slurs like "un-American," "moonbat," "liberal loons" and "tinfoil hatters" have turned out to be reality.

Karl Rove really is a devious bastard. The GOP really does actively try to suppress liberal voters. We really did torture. There really were no weapons of mass destruction. We were lied into war. Ted Stevens (and countless others) really are criminals. And at the rate things are being uncovered, maybe we really will learn the truth behind 9/11.*

We liberals have been disgusted with the state of our government for a very long time. Somehow, we found the strength to continue paying attention, and continue being engaged after the dumbfounding (and very likely stolen) re-election of George W. Bush in 2004. We held on patiently when the Democrats took both houses of Congress in 2006, even though they didn't go nearly far enough in writing the wrongs of previous years, or fight the obstructionism of the GOP anywhere nearly hard enough.

We've tried very hard to unfog the false, spun reality put out by the likes of right-wing talk radio and FOX "News," entities that somehow made the leap from fringe nuts to mainstream in the Bush era. And I've gotta tell you, I for one am very, very tired of it. November 4th will either cause a widespread sigh of relief for liberals, or it will cause a stunned catatonia. Things look pretty good for the former, but I've been disappointed enough in the past to expect the latter. I'm a cynic like that.

This writer has a slightly rosier--if no less cynical--view. And she puts into words all of my frustration, and puts them into a pretty solid context. Take a look.

[Excerpt]

So Now EVERYONE Knows

Those among us who have recognized the hypocrisy of the GOP over the years – a charge which, when made, often fell on deaf ears – have now been fully vindicated, thanks to the McCain campaign, its supporters, its defenders, and its hard-core adherents.

While Republican voters screamed for McCain to take off the gloves, what actually slipped off was the mask that Republican powers-that-be have hidden behind for decades – and the face that was exposed for all the world to see was, to say the least, not a pretty one. . .

Read more at: Democratic Underground

* 9/11 Note: No, I do not believe all the "Loose Change" and other associated stories about September 11. They certainly point out the holes in the story, but I'm not sure I buy their explanations. I'm just certain that we've been told everything, and that some of what we've been told isn't true. I find the "official story" to be just exactly as implausible as some of the loonier theories out there. Given the history of the (still) sitting administration, do you put it past them to lie about elements of the story?