Are Republicans marinating George W. Bush?

Via Pandagon, this is the kind of victory party I'm looking forward to this November:

One of the secrets of conservative America is how often it has welcomed Republican defeats. In 1976, many conservatives saw the trouncing of the moderate Gerald Ford as a way of clearing the path for the ideologically pure Ronald Reagan in 1980. In November 1992, George H.W. Bush's defeat provoked celebrations not just in Little Rock, where the Clintonites danced around to Fleetwood Mac, but also in some corners of conservative America.

"Oh yeah, man, it was fabulous," recalled Tom DeLay, the hard-line congressman from Sugar Land, Texas, who had feared another "four years of misery" fighting the urge to cross his party's too-liberal leader. At the Heritage Foundation, a group of right-wingers called the Third Generation conducted a bizarre rite involving a plastic head of the deposed president on a platter decorated with blood-red crepe paper.

Yes, they are a bunch of sick *^%#s.

I wish I had a tape of DeLuded saying "yeah, man" and "fabulous."

Speaking of Pandagon, he has an essential post on the "two conventions."

After two nights of PBS coverage, with coddly David Brooks and smug Jim Lehrer, I watched last night on C-Span. What a relief.