Crisis of the Regime
Against The Current vol. 120
The Editors
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/36
Date Written: 2006-01-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2006
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13203
"A government headed by right-wing extremists has been returned to power, to preside over a divided country and a potential for real catastrophe in Iraq!" That's what we wrote a year ago, in the immediate wake of the 2004 election (editorial statement, ATC 113). In other words, the Republicans were firmly installed as the country's ruling party, albeit with a razor-thin majority, unless and until they were to screw something up really, really badly—and have they ever, from Baghdad to New Orleans and back!