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Saturday, Jul 4, 2009
Shheeeeesh!
Worshiping power to the exclusion of all else, conservatives are adept at recognizing and sucking up to power. The Dems, being so spineless that if they suddenly grew a spine they'd just form a subcommittee, chaired by a rival, to study it to see if it could be determined what it was for, suck up to everyone except their base which they feel they don't need to suck up to because, hey, they're the base, what're they gonna do, vote republican?
I don't want a cabinet pick. I don't have any pork projects I want to save. There is no single issue that makes or breaks my vote for any candidate. I do want at least one party that is both smart about the issues, and smart about politics. I thought an Obama-led Democratic party would offer that. What they did today wasn't just stupid--it was cowardly and a betrayal of their most loyal supporters and one more abomination thrust on NOLA and the victims of Katrina--but it was more stupid than anything else.
To borrow the fable someone else referred to, Joe Lieberman is a scorpion who just asked Obama the Frog to swim him across the river. Even though we tried to tell him about that scorpion, Obama decided that it was time to hope it had changed it's nature.
He'll deserve the sting that Lieberman won't be long in delivering. It won't be fatal, but it will eat up time and effort and political capital. And it was utterly avoidable.
She's best at formulating policy. It's also a strategic mistake to offer the job to a Senator. We need all the votes we can get, and a Senate seat is not something to be thrown aside. I was hoping that Obama had offered the job as a kind and generous act, and to show the world their fued was over.
But the way the pundits talk about Hillary just creeps me right out. She's ambitious and coniving, the same old smears. The accusations come so naturally, I think they're really taking about themselves. I can only imagine how devious and self involved and honorless they must be to have made it in commercial media.
...that the man ran a stellar campaign, slayed two big name dragons and now he's being second guessed before he's even taken the oath of office. Seems like a lot of people on the left are mad that they didn't snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Actually I'm pretty sure the majority of the people of the United States of America got to pick the president. As in, the majority of the people in this country think you are the dipshits you support are, well, dipshits. The current crappy state of the union would attest to that.
America has been governed by radical right-wingers for the past 8 years and our national discourse has been dominated by right-wingers since the era of Reagan. It's about time we countered that nonsense with some good, hands-on, grass roots progressivism.
The question is: How much do we on the left respect ourselves? Will we continue to bust our asses to elect politicians who do not respect us and treat us like we are an annoyance? Will we continue to support politicians who swear to do one thing and then do another when elected?
I do not blame the Senate staffer who laughed at us. We have always been a laughingstock. We beg for crumbs from the Democrats table and reelect them. When Republicans go against the mandate their base gives them, they are punished at the ballot box. John McCain couldn't pick Joe Lieberman as his running mate because the Republican base wouldn't have stood for it. For years, Democrats have had to put a right of center southerner on their presidential tickets because they did not want to seem like they were in the pocket of the people who vote for them.
We've brought things like this Lieberman thing on ourselves. We did not punish the Democrats in Congress who voted to continue to fund the Iraq war when they promised to end it. We did not punish those who voted for FISA. We did not punish those members of the Senate who rolled over for anyone Bush offered up for judicial appointments. Our elected officials from our party do not listen to us because they do not have to.
What are we going to do next? Are we going to continue to break our asses, leave our jobs and school, and donate money for and to politicians who treat us like we are their dirty little secret? It is clear that the Democrats are going to dick us over this term, so that battle is lost. How are we going to organize a movement to unseat the people who thumb their noses at us year after year? We threw Lieberman out during the Connecticut primary but did not follow up. Why not do the same thing all over the country, but follow through this time?
You guys deserve a cabinet of your choosing. As indicated in prior posts, I voted for McCain/Palin at the top, but Democrats otherwise this year, because I figured my favorite VP nominee of all time would probably lose, and we might as well let the liberals run the show for awhile (also, my democratic congressional candidate was vaguely pro-life, so I could live with myself in doing so). Now, here you folks are getting 58-60 Senate seats, and unhappy the appointments are not far enough left. Honestly, I think you deserve to get your way. Why shouldn't you?
Of course, the news for leftists is even worse. If Congress lacks the guts to raise taxes, and goes on a borrow and spending spree instead, how does that relate to Dick Cheney's boast that deficits don't matter? As long as the economy is in peril (which is always, from a politician's perspective), just borrow, borrow, spend, spend away. Without new tax revenue, you won't get national health care or anything else on the agenda. Of course, you'll get pro-Roe replacements to the Supreme Court, but unless a conservative steps down, that will just be status quo, not change.
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Thanks for sharing, Governor. Now please take a cue from Norm Coleman, and go away
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