The Remix

This was the first time I read a piece by Charles Blow but he nails it in his latest Op-Ed in the NYT...

The problem is that the country romanticized by the far right hasn’t existed for some time, and its ability to deny that fact grows more dim every day. President Obama and what he represents has jolted extremists into the present and forced them to confront the future. And it scares them.

Even the optics must be irritating. A woman (Nancy Pelosi) pushed the health care bill through the House. The bill’s most visible and vocal proponents included a gay man (Barney Frank) and a Jew (Anthony Weiner). And the black man in the White House signed the bill into law. It’s enough to make a good old boy go crazy...

...The Tea Party, my friends, is not the future.

You may want “your country back,” but you can’t have it. That sound you hear is the relentless, irrepressible march of change. Welcome to America: The Remix.

Update: Frank Rich's* New York Times column is just as good, if not better.

*Interesting quasi-historical footnote for DC natives: Frank Rich's father was the owner of Rich's Shoes. From Frank Rich's website: "For Polly and me [Frank], the store was a treasure chest: Rich's gave its youngest customers comic books and crayons in brightly colored cardboard tubes that looked like rocket ships, and Dad brought home as many as he could carry." My mom used to take me to Rich's to get shoes all the time. The mention of that cardboard tube rocket ship brought back a pleasant memory that had vanished long ago.