I keep going over this scenario in my head

[LuckyTheDog]

The Dems sweep into control of both houses of Congress. They, along with a few, brave, moderate Republicans throw Bush and Cheney out of office. The newly named House Speaker Nancy Pelosi becomes president. Her first act is to appoint a truth and reconciliation commission to investigate the Bush era and exorcise its demons from our republic.

Soon after the hearings start, the GOP splits up and a new, moderate conservative/centrist movement made up of former Republicans and a handful of DLC Democrats form an opposition party. Most of the hard right wing of the old Republican Party retires to the private sector (where they make a fortune) or enters the political wilderness by joining the Libertarian Party or forming minor parties of their own.

All is good in America... The budget gets balanced. The wars end (peace settlements put the UN in charge of security in Iraq and Afghanistan). National health care is adopted. The political debate takes on a whole new, more serious tone. Optimism soars.

Then, I wake up. In reality, I think that if Nancy Pelosi became president under the circumstances I describe above, we'd be lucky if the hard right didn't start a shooting war.

But one can dream, right?

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