"The Great Relearning"

David Neiwert, our very own reality-based killer whale, suggests that if a wingnut says they're "building a bridge" to meet their democratic foes, well, assume they're only building it to throw the democrat off.

Bill Bennett, that moral paragon, channels Chairman Mao.

Having restored decency to the White House, President Bush now has a mandate to affect policy that will promote a more decent society, through both politics and law. His supporters want that, and have given him a mandate in their popular and electoral votes to see to it. Now is the time to begin our long, national cultural renewal ("The Great Relearning," as novelist Tom Wolfe calls it) -- no less in legislation than in federal court appointments. It is, after all, the main reason George W. Bush was reelected.

And the wingnuts, never very deep into the woodwork during Bush's first term, will be absolutely teeming out of the walls during the second.