A ray of sunshine

As ominous as the new Democrat ascendancy is for the economic future of America (a future which the Republicans--let me give credit where credit is due--pretty much flushed down the toilet), the Democrats will doubtless advance the liberal social agenda, and I'm all for that. In particular, Roe v. Wade is now secure forever. All the Religious Right's scheming and planning and conniving for the past 30 years have come to nothing. They came within a hair's breadth of stacking the Supreme Court with Scalias and Thomases, but Justice Stevens proved to be too tough an old bird for them and beat the theocons by living to see their ruin. Obama's appoints to the court will upend a generation of wingnut hopes and dreams. The finger of fate has written, and all the regrets and tears will not cause it to erase even half a word: Roe v. Wade is and will remain the law of the land.

And no more abstinence-based BS, no more twisted anti-sex pseudo-education, no more fantasy about breast cancer is God's revenge on abortion, or any of the other preposterous nonsense we've heard from the Bush administration, the previous Bush administration, and the Reagan administration. No more lying for Jesus in Washington, D.C. Further, the Democrats are getting ready to pass the Freedom of Choice Act, which will override state laws that have been obstructing women from exercising their reproductive rights.

The Catholic bishops are aghast. Watch them go after Catholic Democrats--especially Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi--with the only tools they have left--denial of sacraments at mass and maybe even excommunication. American theocracy takes a giant leap backward, but it won't go quietly or even with a bit of dignity.