What Do You Think The State Of The American Political Pendulum Is?

[DistressedAmerican]

Some days I think I see a slowing of even reversing of pendulum's direction. Most days I see us slipping farther and further to the extreme right!

There are signs of hope however, DSM I and II, Bolton Floundering, The Nuke Option Turing Out To Be A Dud!

So what do you think? Is it starting to get better or are we a ways off until we hit rock bottom?

If we aren't careful, the pendulum could easily become a wrecking ball...

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. just like yuo there are days I see hope

there are days I just go oh my god

[wtbymark]

2. I think, right now it's Broke (nt)

[IChing]

3. I like it alot

But don't forget the pendulum always swings back in equal distance to its opposite.
that is a law of Newton. So there is hope.

[ThomWV]

8. Actually That's Not True

It swings back, but never as far back as it was before. We will never regain what they have stolen from us.

[tridim]

4. The GOP/Neocons have had it nailed in position for about 7 years

It's trying to swing back but these criminals keep nailing it down. I believe that it's in the process of breaking free, and when it does it's going to swing left very quickly.. Slapping BushCo on the ass as it does.

[DistressedAmerican]

5. We Can Certainly Hope! Someone Throw A Stick Up At It!

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. I see it still sliding right.

DSM I & II could slow the momentum a bit, but Bolton is an inconsequential sideshow, and the nukular option was not a dud. It did just as it was intended to -- made the dems compromise, which for dem leadership means surrender. We gave up the judges to preserve a filibuster which will still get nuked when it comes time to replace Renquist. We allowed lifetime appointments, and fight an appointment of someone whose term will end with this administration.

*s low polling numbers mean nothing, because we don't count the votes, they do. If they count the votes, no matter what the polling, they will take more power in 06, setting the stage for their annointed successor in 08.

But did you hear? Terri Schaivo's autopsy results will be posted tomorrow!

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. It swung right and then fell off

[OnionPatch]

9. It's at the end of the right

just at the end, where the gravity from the left is pulling, pulling, pulling at it to come back. It can't go much further, the pressure is too great. It has to go back soon, but what if the cord breaks and it just hurls off into space? :crazy:

Great graphic!

[DistressedAmerican]

10. I've Been Considering Adding A Couple Of Frames With It Flying

Off to the right. I wanted to leave the possibility open though!

[DistressedAmerican]

11. Slowed The Swing Down A Bit For Better Pic Viewing...

[DistressedAmerican]

12. Kickin It Back To The Left!

[DistressedAmerican]

16. ...

[DemGirl7]

13. It's not that I'm hopeless...

it's just that I see it as swinging most of the time to the right, yeah there are bright spots every so often, but as long Bush & Co. are at the reigns of the government,it's not going to swing back to a nice comfortable spot on the left.

[XemaSab]

14. I think we're in the pit

and regardless of how the pendulum swings, it's coming at us.

[FreeStateDemocrat]

15. Ex-Bush Aide Who Edited Climate Reports to Join ExxonMobil

Not anytime soon not with this type of crap going on in broad daylight, they don't even try to hide it anymore.

By ANDREW C. REVKIN
Published: June 15, 2005
Philip A. Cooney, the White House staff member who repeatedly revised government scientific reports on global warming, will go to work for ExxonMobil in the fall, the oil company said today.
Mr. Cooney resigned on Friday as chief of staff to President Bush's environmental policy council, two days after documents obtained by The New York Times showed that he had edited the reports in ways that cast doubt on the link between greenhouse-gas emissions and rising temperatures.
A former lawyer and lobbyist with the American Petroleum Institute, the main lobbying group for the oil industry, Mr. Cooney has no scientific training.


http://nytimes.com/2005/06/15/science/14cnd-climate.html?hp&ex=1118808000&en=5cd3e1222ecd6bea&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[omega minimo]

17. Flaccid

:wow:

[Dr Fate]

18. I believe it is a dangerous myth.

It's like saying "Republicans will eventually fall on thier swords."
No, they wont. You ghave to "stab" them.

You dont win elections by waiting for the pendulum to swing your way- you swing it yourself by pushing the damn thing.

[Independent_Liberal]

19. People have the power to change things...

We just need to find ourselves. We need to look at who we are, what we want, and what we must do in order to make things better. We must never give up.

[welshTerrier2]

20. political pendulum: good ---- issues pendulum: bad

the American pendulum can either be viewed politically (will Dems regain power) or it can focus on the underlying issues ... which measure you use will significantly skew the results ...

politically, the republicans are in full retreat ... it's hard to see how the American people will continue to support the insanity of the neo-con agenda ... the religious right is getting a dose of reality now ... they are going to be very disappointed when they realize they were used for political gain and that the neo-cons, and even mainstream republicans, will not continue to cater to their agenda because of the political costs ... so, eventually, Democrats will be the "only other choice in town" ... using a political measure, things are going our way ...

but Democrats are badly squandering a real opportunity to not just regain power for an election or two but push a vision that could really solve some of the very deep problems with America ... unfortunately, most of them are more concerned with politics and power than with the "riskier" issues that need our attention ... sitting at the core of their shortcomings is the corporate stranglehold on our democracy, the total corruption of American foreign policy and an excess of "free market" capitalism that serves profits before it serves our citizens and our society ...

so, on this latter pendulum, we are making no progress at all ...