Fortunately, "they" (America) have heard about how the "economic disaster" was the culmination of Republican supply-side, trickle-down, borrow-and-spend, ginned-up Iraq invasion economics.

As long as Bobby Jindal, Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney are the bleating edge of the "revamped" Republican party, I don't see much of a threat to the continued groundswell* of common sense.

*-In the elections of 2006 and 2008, the Repugs lost 14 Senate seats, 55 House seats and the White House.