Hillary Clinton Is The Madonna of American Politics

The second casualty of Election 2008 will be the regressive right movement that has done so much damage to the United States and the world these last decades. The Republicans lost another bi-election this week in a district that should have been a cakewalk for them. That makes three of late, including the former seats of Speaker Dennis Hastert and Trent Lott. (The latter race was in Mississippi, y'all, and even featured use of the entire Republican playbook of liberal- and race-baiting -- prominently featuring Obama and Reverend Wright, of course -- to no avail.