Over at Common Dreams, David Orr gives progressives everywhere a reason to hope. Kind of.

If he's right, and the Republican Party is not much longer for this world, what will that mean for liberals and Democrats, not to mention the country as a whole?

"Having made the United States a large bulls' eye for terrorists and malcontents, it may implode catastrophically taking much else with it. It may come undone more gradually, but no less catastrophically, as the economy sinks under the weight of war debt and foolish tax cuts. It may be overthrown if and when thoughtful conservatives disturbed by fiscal recklessness and imperial pretensions, all honest persons offended by mendacity, bombast, criminality, conniving, and diversion, and all Christians sufficiently alert to notice the discrepancy between the words and life of the "Prince of Peace" and our foreign and domestic policies finally shift alignments."

While the demise of the Republican Party would bring with it some great changes in American politics, it could also cause a great deal of problems. I don't think that the "imminent demise" of the Republican Party means that Dems should just play the waiting game though. Even an imminent demise may not happen for decades upon decades. But even if it happens relatively soon, the Dems need to fight to maintain their own party. Fight against the more dangerous items on Bush's second term agenda, to start. Action is key, so that if and when the republicans collapse under the weight of their own ideology and blind refutation of true American values, they don't end up taking the rest of the country with them.