On Election Day 2008, I posted this passage from Nikos Kazantzakis’ The Last Temptation of Christ: “A prophet is the one who, when everyone else despairs, hopes. And when everyone else hopes, he despairs. You’ll ask me why. It’s because he has mastered the Great Secret: that the Wheel turns.”
At the time, AlterNet sneered that the post was “doleful (and bizarrely nonsensical),” adding: “Yep. Keep waiting for that wheel to turn.”
Well, the wait is over and the wheel has turned. Of course, the wheel could turn again in the next election or two, which is why House Republicans must be diligent about keeping their promises and maintaining their integrity.
I agree. Republicans need to realize that people have a short leash. They want change. More importantly, they want Conservative change. After election day 2008, I felt that if Carter gave us Reagan, the sky is the limit with Obama!
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHas the wheel really turned? Oh please. The great Mark Steyn has a somewhat different take, far more realistic than the happy talk back slapping that has so infected NRO: "I've been saying for some time that I wanted a big, explicit vote for a serious rollback of spendaholic government, and that, if it turned out as just a slightly-swingier-than-usual midterm, Obama & Co would conclude that the right would have insufficient will to, for example, repeal ObamaCare. With the Senate results, the slightly-swingier-than-usual interpretation will prove attractive to Democrat-media analysts. I was hoping for something more in the nature of wholesale electoral slaughter. We didn't get that.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse12.40am Harry Reid has survived. The wave is looking more like a ripple."