How will you recognize that sanity is returning to this country?

[jpgray]

I say it will happen when a politician points out we spend more on defense than nearly all other nations combined, says we need to cut the defense budget by a substantial amount, and doesn't get immediately tarred and feathered by every major media organ.

[Nite Owl]

1. When a liberal can call a conservative

a conservative and he/she shrinks away from it because the public knows what it really means. The code will have been broken then and sane discussion of issues can begin. Moore is right, at heart this is a liberal country.

[Still_Loves_John]

9. When "liberal" and "conservative"

both serve as a loose definition of a person's political philosophy and not as invective, and good people who disagree with each other can sit down and reasonably discuss an issue, both motivated not by a need to win, but a need to make the world better.

[whistle]

2. The reason the U.S. gov is spending nearly nearly $500 billion on...

...the military is because it can.

[Doctor_J]

3. when tom delay

or one of his soul mates like hyde, drier, hayworth, or burton gets booted from office. When the tv and radio are 50/50 dem/rep. when someone calls gwb a deserter and a coward and gets to go on tv for weeks on end repeating the charge.

Lots of things could be harbingers of america recovering.

[calimary]

13. Dare I humbly submit this, since you brought up bouncing tom delay?

It's worth a look, and worth a donation (even a teensy one) to delay's opponent, Richard Morrison...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2203237

[dorktv]

14. Hayworth has a really serious contender in his primary and

I hope I win in my primary so we dems send someone DIFFERENT this time against him. He is the only guy in Arizona who has two women gunning for his job.

Edit for spelling oops.

[BiggJawn]

4. When AM radio starts playing music again.

Instead of those shrill GOP-RW hate machines.

Gush? Broke. Playing on 3 stations, and 2 of 'em are AFRTS.

"G-man"? Signing autographs and driving nails into his forehead at gun shows for $200 a day...

Savage-Weiner? Selling power washers.

[janx]

5. When I can teach four college writing courses

and actually get health insurance for myself and my daughter.

[ibegurpard]

6. Ann Coulter will be considered a joke unworthy of being on any

national television show.

[AndyTiedye]

7. When We Send Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al To The Hague

They have to answer to the world for what they have done.


(The UN prison at the Palace of Peace, where convicted war criminals go).

[Still_Loves_John]

8. Wow, that prison is awesome!

I would totally go there. Seriously, it's like an epcot exibit or something.

[LearnedHand]

10. When we democrats...

...don't have to acknowledge ourselves to each other with secret signals or keep quiet about white house stupidities for fear of being secreted away to an undisclosed location.

[G_j]

11. Kucinich has been pointing that out for a long time

maybe we will find some sanity when we stop marginalizing the few voices of sanity.

I totally agree with your take on military spending BTW.
It IS completely insane.

[jpgray]

12. That's one of the main reasons I caucused for the guy

Another is that he potentially threw away his own political future to do the right thing in Cleveland. :D Dennis and I agree on just about everything but the flag amendment.

[Victimerican]

15. After the election...

And our ELECTED president makes his acceptance speech THE DAY OF the election, and (half) the nation breathes a sigh of relief that it's all finally over.

-starts counting the days-

[Ladyhawk]

16. When cars don't get vandalized due to political bumper stickers. n/t