Reply #55: I'm not the least bit scared

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The media has been pathetically obvious in its chorusing to create a reality of its own choosing, and even if one discounts a bit of the impetus for it as simply wanting a "good story", the thin shellac of "impartiality" is ridiculous even to the casual observer.

What's interesting is the look in the eye of some of the more savvy and cynical right-wing hacks like Candy Crowley: they're rather wobbly in their resolve; its not 1994.

Regardless of what happens, the Republicans are in chaos and if emboldened, they'll show their true ugliness for all to see. The frightening possibility is what economic tumult they might precipitate with their blinkered greedfest at a time of peril; their one effective tool is always the amplification and channeling of fear and resentment, and if they drive us over the cliff, who knows what hay they can make of it.

It's far from a foregone conclusion who holds power when the smoke clears, and if they eke out some slim or a bit thicker-than-slim majority in the House and then go on the cocksure asshole crusade that Junior did, they're in for a serious comeuppance. The economy is fragile right now.

It's hardly the end of the world, but we're definitely in for tough times. We would have been anyway.

In a chickenshit sort of way, it gives us cover for the crap to come: even if they don't take the House, their obstructionism and atavism will look very bad, and it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of fellas.