our hands up, admit it's a free-for-all, not a democracy, and go from there. any right wing site or publication (save for The American Conservative and perhaps Kristol's rag) since the end of the election. The right intends to fully disregard the results of the election, so much as possible, using an ends-justify-means rationale. It is 'The results of the election be damned, if the country is at stake, we'll still take every last (D) policy since FDR down, and if we have to take the public and the country down too, serves them right for being so immoral and wrongheaded." In short, as far as the right is concerned this is not a democracy and never was. Votes are cute, but we'll only pretend to let them "count" if the public voted the right way. They're adopting the model of every third world "democratic" autocracy across the globe. Ironic for a bunch of people mooing about the "end of America" as it has been for two centuries. Unless the (D) party grows a spine and begins to put some nails in their cornflakes at breakfast time, we'll continue our march toward the end of democratic governance in this country. They won't stop until it's either a right fascist dictatorship or until every single Republican is voted out of every last federal seat and office and the party is effectively dead -- which won't happen so long as we have southern states and Utah. record of governing the country than