But during Clinton's breakout session with bloggers Saturday, she was not asked a single question about her vote to authorize the Iraq war or her plans for withdrawing troops. The questions, instead, had all the noncombative flair of an upstate New Hampshire town hall meeting

No matter how much Michael Scherer and other automatons insist otherwise, the herd found at mega-blogs like DKos are not "the liberal blogosphere." Rather, they are Democratic Party operatives, plain & simple - robots whose collective identity is rooted in a troubling denial of the role the Democratic Party has played - and continues to play *daily* - in the systematic dismantling of The Constitution.

Like the Beltway media establishment they routinely criticize as a bunch of toothless sycophants cozying up to power, the "Kossacks" are themselves jokes who just want to be players regardless of the game. Fuck 'em all. Raw. Along with the rest of the Democratic Blogosphere which can always find a way to balance their indignation over any betrayal - whether war crimes, torture, blatantly illegal surveillance or Nancy Pelosi's *tireless* complicity in the crimes of George W. Bush - with weak-kneed rationalizations and even more party loyalty.

If anyone wonders why the Democratic Party is itself completely devoid of anything resembling principle, look no further than the fuckwits at DailyKOS and the rest of the Democratic blogosphere. The same people who talk about a Progressive Movement which doesn't even exist. A bunch of like-minded parrots talking to each other can't be equated with a movement. (Clue: Movements actually move.)

This as good a time as any to show the Dem Faithful some gratitude for their invaluable assistance in perpetuating the theatrical, well-oiled bullshit that passes for political representation. Thanks a million for the status quo, you Stockholm syndrome-afflicted, candy-ass motherfuckers. Although you'll never be players you aspire to be, for cheap violins, you hold up exceedingly well.

It's ludicrous to suggest there was no censorship involved. One way or another, all communications giants are involved in censorship.

What's even more ludicrous is Gigi Sohn of Public Knowledge saying "We hope the FCC and Congress take note." When are people going to fucking wake up to what's happened to the U.S. political system? The Democratic Congress says it's okay to spy on Americans without a warrant, and Gigi Sohn is still thinking the FCC and Congress gives a flying fuck about the public interest? Give me a fucking break.

The longer so-called "activists" cling to the illusion of a democratic republic, the longer it's going to take to dig ourselves out of this fucking hole. Let me remind you it's a hole dug not only by the villainous authoritarians of this country - of which both parties are very clearly complicit - but one dug even deeper by those who persevere in the clearly erroneous belief that "The Public" even exists in contemporary America. It does not. Wake the fuck up, dipshits.

P.S. That this story comes by way of Farhad Manjoo, who once made his living denouncing and ridiculing those of us on The Left who saw all this shit coming is really rich. Just how wrong do you have to be, Farhad Manjoo, before you're willing to admit your own complicity in the tyranny that grips America today? You, who never missed a chance to ridicule those who saw all this shit coming from a thousand miles away. Don't bother answering it. It's a rhetorical question, and, no doubt, you have a career to think of. What a fucking asshole.

Taser-happy cops - of which there are more than can be counted - are malicious, needle-dick, motherfucking pussies. That's a pretty good reason to choose a profession which affords plenty of opportunities to play ass-kickin' Alpha Dog at the slightest provocation.

Just don't call 'em pigs. That would be disrespectful.