Maureen Dowd discussed testosterone and its impact on the elections in her column today. She captured the sentiments of the country noting that "Voters were sick of phony swaggering, blustering and bellicosity, absent competency and accountability."
Then, Ms. Dowd, a particular favorite of AMERICAblog, sliced and diced the GOP in one succinct paragraph:
Republicans were oddly oblivious to the fact that they had turned into a Thomas Nast cartoon: an unappetizing tableau of bloated, corrupt, dissembling, feckless white hacks who were leaving kids unprotected. Tom DeLay and Bob Ney sneaking out of Congress with dollar bills flying out of their pockets. Denny Hastert playing Cardinal Bernard Law, shielding Mark Foley. Rummy, cocky and obtuse as he presided over an imploding Iraq, while failing to give young men and women in the military the armor, support and strategy they needed to come home safely. Dick Cheney, vowing bullheadedly to move full speed ahead on Iraq no matter what the voters decided. W. frantically yelling about how Democrats would let the terrorists win, when his lame-brained policies had spawned more terrorists.Bush and Rove doubted the testosterone of the American people. They thought we would cower in fear. They were wrong. Americans, or most of us anyway, are sick of the way Bush tried to frighten the country for political reasons. As Harry Reid would say, we got our mojo back.
