I think I feel like a lot of Democrats this week. I'm happy we won. I'm ecstatic we swept the Republican out of Congress in a manner similar to the way they kicked us out in 1994. I'm amazed the American people woke up and saw the GOP for the incompetent, ignorant, bull-headed nitwits that they are. I giggle that George W. Bush is now a lame-duck president, and that Karl Rove's agenda and legacy has been utterly pummeled into dust. It is a wonderful feeling, and one that, I must confess, I am not used to having when it comes to politics in the 21st century. For six years, it has been disappointment after disappointment. Now that I finally have what I want, I almost feel as though I don't know how to accept it. This good feeling, this feeling of accomplishment, it is rather foreign.
It's a feeling that, I'm sure, Republicans felt in 1994.
With victory, and a strong sense that we utterly decimated an ugly, cancerous ideology that poisoned our government, I am reminded of a quote, made famous in the George C. Scott film Patton. That quote goes something like this (flip me to see):