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As the U.S. Capitol custodial staff scrubs bloody chunks of the Republicans' former majority from chamber walls, the more informed among us are left to our (hopefully more informed) conjecture. Have we moved into another dark age of far-Left preeminence, or will the Democrat leadership crash and burn, engendering even more disgust and disappointment in voters than existed two weeks ago, thus turning the tables yet again?

Should the latter occur anytime within the next, oh, two to four years, it is evident that Americans will no longer tolerate Republican politicians who transmogrify into Democrats as soon as they attain a majority; the midterm election was all the proof we need of that.

Q: How do you turn a Republican into a Democrat?

A: Get them elected.

Not any more. And well it should be. "Death to the RINOs! [Republicans In Name Only]" is a call I've been hearing a lot over the last week or so in varying forms.

"Proretrogressives", I believe, is an apt designation for what the Democrat leadership has become -- for the moment. A year ago, no one but their base would have voted for them in the numbers they did on November 7. The Democrat leadership figured out that they needed to appear more centrist to retake the Capitol -- and it worked. Their international socialist agenda remains the same, however: They will continue to press for suicidal economic and social programs and policies at home, and continue to smooch the buttocks of the likes of Kim Jong-Il, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other profoundly dangerous enemies of the U.S. -- as they have for the last 40 years. The American people will suffer the consequences; they've got fat pensions, bunkers and stored food prepared for Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy and their RINO bedfellows.

Perhaps they'll suggest that America convert to radical Islam en masse. That, after all is the only alternative to annihilation or victory. It is sad that the Democrat majority left to their own devices will ultimately force the U.S. into the position of having to incinerate several million misled souls in order to save ourselves. When we get backed into that corner, someone's going to start pressing buttons, no matter which party is in charge. We are already in a more precarious position than we were concerning the Japanese threat in World War II; far Left politicians and the media are the reason most Americans are shielded from this fact.

At times like these I'm grateful for my faith. Were it not for that, I might have concluded that the majority of Americans truly are morons and there was little I or the combined efforts of all like-minded could do to stem the tide of socialism and the cult of ignorance that has insinuated itself into the American collective mind.

When I hear Rosie O'Donnell's pathetically ignorant blather (on ABC's The View) about not walking through life "afraid of anyone who thinks different than you" and instructing Americans not to fear terrorists because "they're mothers and fathers," images of human beings falling from the Twin Towers spring immediately into my mind's eye. I experience a near-overwhelming urge to leap through the television screen with a macheté. Although I imagine this makes me a "right-wing hater" in the eyes of some, my view is that enemies foreign and domestic are enemies nonetheless, and if the Left is determined to use the First Amendment to destroy America, then the Right deserves a little latitude as well.

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