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Demokracja ludowa nowa: wladza w rekach jednej partii.

The Red Zone
By MAUREEN DOWD

Published: November 4, 2004

WASHINGTON

With the Democratic Party splattered at his feet in little blue puddles, John
Kerry told the crushed crowd at Faneuil Hall in Boston about his concession
call to President Bush.

"We had a good conversation," the senator said. "And we talked about the
danger of division in our country and the need, the desperate need, for
unity, for finding the common ground, coming together. Today I hope that we
can begin the healing."

Democrat: Heal thyself.

W. doesn't see division as a danger. He sees it as a wingman.

The president got re-elected by dividing the country along fault lines of
fear, intolerance, ignorance and religious rule. He doesn't want to heal
rifts; he wants to bring any riffraff who disagree to heel.

W. ran a jihad in America so he can fight one in Iraq - drawing a devoted
flock of evangelicals, or "values voters," as they call themselves, to the
polls by opposing abortion, suffocating stem cell research and supporting a
constitutional amendment against gay marriage.

Mr. Bush, whose administration drummed up fake evidence to trick us into war
with Iraq, sticking our troops in an immoral position with no exit strategy,
won on "moral issues."

The president says he's "humbled" and wants to reach out to the whole
country. What humbug. The Bushes are always gracious until they don't get
their way. If W. didn't reach out after the last election, which he barely
grabbed, why would he reach out now that he has what Dick Cheney calls
a "broad, nationwide victory"?

While Mr. Bush was making his little speech about reaching out, Republicans
said they had "the green light" to pursue their conservative agenda, like
drilling in Alaska's wilderness and rewriting the tax code.

"He'll be a lot more aggressive in Iraq now," one Bush insider
predicts. "He'll raze Falluja if he has to. He feels that the election
results endorsed his version of the war." Never mind that the more insurgents
American troops kill, the more they create.

Just listen to Dick (Oh, lordy, is this cuckoo clock still vice president?)
Cheney, introducing the Man for his victory speech: "This has been a
consequential presidency which has revitalized our economy and reasserted a
confident American role in the world." Well, it has revitalized the
Halliburton segment of the economy, anyhow. And "confident" is not the first
word that comes to mind for the foreign policy of a country that has
alienated everyone except Fiji.

Vice continued, "Now we move forward to serve and to guard the country we
love." Only Dick Cheney can make "to serve and to guard" sound like "to rape
and to pillage."

He's creating the sort of "democracy" he likes. One party controls all power
in the country. One network serves as state TV. One nation dominates the
world as a hyperpower. One firm controls contracts in Iraq.

Just as Zell Miller was so over the top at the G.O.P. convention that he made
Mr. Cheney seem reasonable, so several new members of Congress will make W.
seem moderate.

Tom Coburn, the new senator from Oklahoma, has advocated the death penalty
for doctors who perform abortions and warned that "the gay agenda" would
undermine the country. He also characterized his race as a choice
between "good and evil" and said he had heard there was "rampant lesbianism"
in Oklahoma schools.

Jim DeMint, the new senator from South Carolina, said during his campaign
that he supported a state G.O.P. platform plank banning gays from teaching in
public schools. He explained, "I would have given the same answer when asked
if a single woman who was pregnant and living with her boyfriend should be
hired to teach my third-grade children."

John Thune, who toppled Tom Daschle, is an anti-abortion Christian
conservative - or "servant leader," as he was hailed in a campaign ad - who
supports constitutional amendments banning flag burning and gay marriage.

Seeing the exit polls, the Democrats immediately started talking about values
and religion. Their sudden passion for wooing Southern white Christian
soldiers may put a crimp in Hillary's 2008 campaign (nothing but a wooden
stake would stop it). Meanwhile, the blue puddle is comforting itself with
the expectation that this loony bunch will fatally overreach, just as Newt
Gingrich did in the 90's.

But with this crowd, it's hard to imagine what would constitute overreaching.

Invading France?