Huffington Post
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The Bush Administration's great innovation was to stop seeing government as the enemy of wealth, but to see it as a tool to transfer wealth from normal people to the very rich. They did this through tax policy, by running up debts, privatizing as many government functions as they could (the reconstruction of Iraq is the poster child for their successes), and by increasing the size of government so that there was more money to be handed out. They were willing to throw away the chains that Republican believed in - fiscal restraint, balanced budgets, smaller government - to get at the gold piles.
The Republican congress enthusiastically went along with those programs and that transfer of wealth and with it, they hoped, a permanent transfer in power.
Presumably, the new majority doesn't see government that way.
They will put forth their own initiatives and resist the administration's plans.
However, the administration won't go away. The Republican minority won't roll over and die. The right-wing propaganda and spin industry won't pack it in. The rich people, corporations and institutions who benefit from such policies aren't going to stop.
* * * *True believers don't lose their beliefs. Corporations don't lose the machinery by which they reach for power and influence. The greedy don't lose their greed. The corrupt don't attain purity.
2007 will be the year in which they fight back.
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