REPUBLICAN FRUSTRATION RUNNING HIGH

I got this email from a friend in New Orleans earlier today:

I was coming home from a foray to the PPC in Metairie, and was stuck in traffic waiting for a train...some guy - white, about 60 in a little convertible - pulled up next to me and motioned for me to roll down the window...when I did, he said, "you're an asshole!"...thinking I must have been driving badly, I responded, "why?"...he said, "because you have that fucking democrat sticker on your car! you're a fucking asshole!"...all I managed to say was "Jerk!" as he zoomed off (illegally) in the center turn lane...it made my adrenalin jump to be yelled at like that...then i was worrying he was going to come back and harass me (or worse) because i was still just sitting there in the traffic...sheesh...glad i'm home, and now we're under a tornado warning.

This would have been no surprise three and a half years ago, back during the hyperpatriotic run-up to the Iraq invasion, which villified both Michael Moore and the Dixie Chicks. But people have been treating each other much more civilly lately, especially after it's become so fucking obvious that Bush is totally incompetent and that the GOP Congress is the most corrupt in US history. The only thing I can think of to explain this bit of weirdness is that, barring mass election theft (see post below), it's looking like the Dems are taking over tomorrow, and that's just gotta hurt all these right wing bozos who think they're right about everything. They're losing their world, and it appears to be making some of them into even bigger bullies than they are usually.

On the other hand, people in the Big Easy are still pretty rattled by the effects of Katrina, and this guy could have just been blowing off some steam. Maybe it's a combination of both.

Make sure to vote on Tuesday!

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