whither the two parties forward?
In comparison with my handy image of the “16 faces of the Republican Party Right this Minute“, Time Magazine provides us with their flow-chart progressing from Olympia Snowe to Rush Limbaugh, Charlie Crist and Newt Gingrich next, John McCain and Sarah Palin, Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney.
I don’t think Cheney found his way on it.
Meantime, time to worry about the future of the Democratic Party? (taken in total from Andrew Sullivan’s blog.)
To me, Pelosi’s denial (and accusation against the CIA) lays bare a deeper truth about the Democrats. Without Obama they’d be nearly as big a mess as the Republicans. Most of them are complicit in the Bush torture program and the wars. The party is almost headless without Obama – led by the fickle and hardly inspiring Reid/Pelosi duo. After Obama, if conservatives learn anything over the next eight years – yes, I’m predicting it will be eight – unless the Democrats get some sort of order and discipline and more importantly, some grander vision, then I think the GOP should have no trouble at all coming in and cleaning up.
The lackluster Reid / Pelosi pair. As opposed to Frist / Hastert? Lott / Hastert? Dole / Gingrich? Mitchell / Foley. Now Mitchell / Foley — that one was one that ROCKED!