Home ownership rates, standards-of-living and life expectancies are
all at all-time highs, the economy is humming,

The economy is indeed giving a hummer, sucking big-time.
That Saudi-Bush oil deal'll be great though, wish they'd
hurry up.

the Soviet Union and
attendant communist states have been vanquished

Communism because it is a stupid-ass non-workable
system. Reagan slept through the whole thing.

(as have the Taliban


Oh they have!? Why are we still looking for them?


and Saddam's dictatorship),


At a ridiculously high cost/benefit ratio.



leftism has been duly marginalized,

Don't bet on it.

the
influence of corrupt labor unions is on the wane,

Replaced by a corrupt administration in the lap of corrupt
industrialists.


the public school monopoly is being broken,

Hence the rise of right-wing causes. Stupider people= more rightists.

crime is down and

Everywhere but in the Bush administration.

the stock market is up.

Good for the wealthy friends of Bush, of little value to
working Americans. Maybe we should celebrate by giving
another tax-cut to the wealthy so they can buy MORE stock.

Get back in the real world, Uncle Tom.
WS