I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Bush presidency: FIERY WRECK!
It's comfy under res.
Howdee.
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It's comfy under res.
Marcia Brady ∞
Maybe, but what I want to know is if it's comfy under Marcia.
Answer, yes very.
NTodd,
What's happened with the Koufax awards so far?
Investigating the latest DCCC shenanigans surrounding the primary candidates for NY-24, and I find that Mr. Clueless-at-the-wheel Rahm Emmanuel has his very own “rah-rah, look at me, I’m so cool page” (http://www.dccc.org/fights/meetrahm/). At the bottom is this little shout-out to the blogosphere: “P.S. - Nothing is more important to me than all of you who work so hard on grassroots outreach. Please take a minute to fill out this user survey to let us know what your interests are and how we can improve our communication with you. Please click here to give us your feedback. Thanks again!” Wow.
Except… his link (http://www.democraticaction.org/survey1/
index.php?source=dccc) goes right back to the DCCC’s homepage. No feedback. No listening. Just a glorified DINO circle-jerk, as expected. "Nothing is more important..." indeed, Rahm, tell us more.
I know, it’s probably just a tech error, but it’s strikingly symbolic of the current DCCC approach to the grassroots. Lots of high-fives when its’ time to pay, and then a sly “fuck you” when it’s time to listen and learn.
I’ve searched everywhere on the DCCC site, and there’s no trace of the survey – neither the questions (“do you think the DCCC sucks big time for selling out fundamental Democratic principles time and again? If so, will you still continue to give to our candidates when we totally ignore your cries of foul?”), nor the results (“98.4% of the grassroots want us to stand for something… what a quaint notion; tree-hugging liberals the lot of them.”)
Jeffraham,
Hoody back at yah!
Maybe, but what I want to know is if it's comfy under Marcia.
Answer, yes very.
Al Swearengen
But, technically, you're under JP.
Sean Patrick for president in 2044!
I always listen when Digby speaks.
Appeasement of these corrupt bastards just allows them to continue on their corrupt, merry way.
Grow a spine and do the right thing. For a fucking change.
Read the whole Digby thing, it's good.
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And they accuse the blogosphere of being an echo chamber.
Jesus Christ, they spend so much goddamned time repeating whatever latest bon mot is ricocheting around inside the Beltway that they have not a SINGLE FUCKING CLUE about the real world anymore.
They think Feingold pulled this censure shit out of his ass? They think people who make 30K a year and have no health insurance are fucking HAPPY?
And Grover Norquist should be one of the first motherfuckers in the dock, as far as I'm concerned.
Gee. People in America (outside the world Tweety walks in, that is), don't like Bush?
Could it be because they are reading about thinks like Task Force 6-26 and wondering: "What the f*cking hell?"
Maybe, but what I want to know is if it's comfy under Marcia.
Answer, yes very.
Al Swearengen
But, technically, you're under JP.
Marcia Brady ∞
You always say that. When do I get to be under you?
Apropos of nothing, may I just say I love this: The U.S. military last month said there were no Iraqi battalions capable of operating without support, a reduction from one battalion in September and three in June that were in the Pentagon's top category of readiness, Level 1.
We've gone from three to one to zero. At least that's one situation that can't get any worse.
Atrios never says "Eleanor Clift speaks, you listen." Why is that?
Ooooh, I just checked my site log. Someone logged in from Paris, France.
Sigh.
sheets!
But, technically, you're under JP.
Marcia Brady
Well, technically, I'm under 6 feet (by half an inch).
But I'm comfortable.
Oh Gawd, Clift quotes Marshall Shittman.
I can't wait until McCain announces that he's a candidate and Shittman admits he never left the repuke party.
We've gone from three to one to zero. At least that's one situation that can't get any worse.
Oh yes it could get worse: the battalions start joining the insurgents.
Hey Moonbats! Wasn't that a great show!
Roadmaster was a great interviewer and wonderful NOLA music.
lb0313 was just terrific!
And I think I did pretty darn good
And they accuse the blogosphere of being an echo chamber.
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watertiger | Homepage | 03.18.06 - 11:47 pm | #
Now it's my turn!
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Atrios never says "Eleanor Clift speaks, you listen." Why is that?
Because most of the time she's speaking out of her ass.
The stench is terrible.
The Democrats' dilemma is how to satisfy a restive and angry base without losing the rest of the country.
Technically this may be correct, insofar as the congressional elections are concerned, but there's a bigger problem coming to a boil. People are very uneasy, especially Democrats. If they don't see some principled stand coming from the Democratic Party soon, on fiscal responsibility in particular, the Dems may see a revolt not dissimilar to the Republican Perot revolt of '92.
You always say that. When do I get to be under you?
Al Swearengen
I don't recall ever saying that you were under JP before, but I do drink sometimes...
Good night yall.
R2K
Digby is the best essayist in the blogosphere, next to Wolcott.
But for God's sake, it shouldn't take rhetoric to convince the Democratic party of the need to fight. What the hell is wrong with these people?
It's obvious that the Democratic establishment has not internalized the fact that there has been a sea-change in how America is viewed in the world that will take a generation or more to undo.
I heard someone, I forget who, being interviewed on CBC radio the other day. And they said, apropos of some human rights issue or other, "the Americans are hardly in a position to comment on human rights" And the tone was of such understatement; it was the same tone in which you'd say, well, perhaps the Sahara is not the best spot for the winter olympics.
That's how America is viewed now. And yet, the Democrats still won't fight.
The way I see it now only the Democrats can beat the Democrats. The Republicans don't really have a say in the matter.
From Clift's barfy piece:
"If someone proposed stringing up Bush like they did Mussolini, that would have a lot of support in the base of the party, too," says a Democratic strategist. "But it's not smart." Democrats want the November election to be a plebiscite on Bush's job performance, not a personal vendetta. "Republicans will rally round him if they think it's a personal attack just like we did with Clinton," warns the strategist.
Let's see:
1) Clinton, unlike Bush, was personally popular even before CoupGate.
2) Clinton was popular because he was seen (rightly) as a competent leader who was honestly trying to do the best he could for America. Polls show that no one believes any more that Bush is capable of governing in our best interests, much less that he actually wants to do so.
Time to get some new strategists. Ones whose brains haven't been personally raped by Grover Norquist.
What is there left to lose, indeed? They already have less influence than at any time in recent memory. DLC should long since have become an epiphet and Wittman should have been sent back to Kennebunkport.
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