Time for Unity, Healing, and Coming Together....Don't Kid Yourself.

From Dowd at the NYTimes:

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'?

Bush spoke today that he's earned "Political Capital" today and he plans to spend it. That means he's won the right to say 'the people want my agenda and i'm going to get it'.

that's not 'lets work together'.

that's fine.

I've been through 4 years of this crap. I just don't want anyone else thinking this is ever going to be about coming together. Bush wins by dividing this nation on fault lines and hoping that as we break, he gets the bigger chunck.