The creepy "National Republican Victory Monument" -- a pic

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4. Creepier still is the "victory" it commemorates:

updated 12:24 a.m. EST, Thu January 29, 2009
Preston on Politics: GOP's eternal flame burns outside D.C.
By Mark Preston
CNN Political Editor
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The only bright spot in the nation's capital for Republicans these days seems to be a flame that burns 24 hours a day in the courtyard at the campaign headquarters for Republican senators.

The Eternal Flame of Freedom is near the National Republican Victory Monument, which commemorates the 1994 "Republican Revolution," when the GOP wrested control of Congress out of Democratic hands.

Even in the cold, snowy days of January, the flame blazes as a beacon of hope for some and as a memory of the days when Republicans were in power and called the shots in Washington.

Now, the GOP is taking orders from Democrats and doing a lot of soul-searching as it tries to right itself and return the party to its glory days.

It commemorates how Newt Gingrich (with Rush Limbaugh as unofficial national precinct captain) came to power by through hyper-partisanship: no compromise with Democrats, treat them as The Enemy, as loathsome and treasonous. Of 24/7 attacks on the president, just because he was not their guy.

They put up an eternal flame to celebrate the Bolshevizing of the Republican party.

Not for people who sacrificed for others, or were struck down. For a bunch of self-serving radicals throwing a victory party.