Is it time for a "fatwa" from Skinner?

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232. Elections these days NEVER bring about results "that we want."

There is so much money blasting us from the right that we are lucky if elections prevent the extremist right from taking over completely. We can only hope to elect enough Democrats that we have a chance of holding and tipping the Supreme Court to the point where Citizens United can be overturned, and we can BEGIN to correct the course of our national history.

Karl Rove is evil, but he had vision. I am fully convinced that he foresaw the 2008 results years in advance, probably as early as 2004, which is why he selected Roberts and Alito as Bush's nominees to the SCOTUS. I also believe that the coming Citizens United suit and decision was discussed with both Roberts and Alito before their names were even placed in nomination to the court. Rove knew that Cheneybush had fucked up, and badly. He knew that in fairly held elections, his party was going the way of the Dodo bird. He needed to do something. His long-term strategy worked.

Every election since 2010, when we figured out what had really happened to us, has been damage control on our side, and until that damage is not only controlled, but repaired, the best result we can hope for in elections to Congress is a damage control mode, instead of an activist mode.