QUOTE OF THE DAY-- THE GREAT REVULSION

Ken didn't even so much as say "Hurrah!" after the election. He just gathered up all the members of the DWT Quote of the Day Committee and took off for places unknown-- presumably south of here. Almost every night I hear something so good on The Daily Show or from Colbert that I don't even bother to write it down as a perspective QOTD because even with my faulty memory, they're always so outstanding that there's no way I would forget them in the morning. And yet... I forget them every single morning. Fortunately, when it comes to quoting Paul Krugman, there's no chance to forget anything.

Along those lines, today's Krugman piece in the New York Times starts with him quoting himself from The Great Unraveling: "I have a vision-- maybe just a hope-- of a great revulsion: a moment in which the American people look at what is happening, realize how their good will and patriotism have been abused, and put a stop to this drive to destroy much of what is best in our country."

I remember reading that and I remember how much it impressed me at the time. Krugman, like many of us, sees Tuesday as proof that the Great Revulsion has arrived. As Krugman points out, Democrats got more than a million more votes than Republicans in the Senate races and in the House races across the country they took 53% of the major vote. "The election wasn't just the end of the road for Mr. Bush's reign of error. It was also the end of the 12-year Republican dominance of Congress. The Democrats will now hold a majority in the House that is about as big as the Republicans ever achieved during that era of dominance. Moreover, the new Democratic majority may well be much more effective than the majority the party lost in 1994. Thanks to a great regional realignment, in which a solid Northeast has replaced the solid South, Democratic control no longer depends on a bloc of Dixiecrats whose ideological sympathies were often with the other side of the aisle."