Wed, 12/09/2009 - 7:55pm — lambert
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Pony riffing, I kid you not.
Oh well. At least Kos wasn't a premature PUMA.
NOTE I keed, I keed!
UPDATE Hamsher beats up BooMan and takes his candy. I guess makes her a she's identifying as a PUMA, too. Just a year late. Too bad they have no place to go.
UPDATE To be more clear, the headline should probably read "would identify as a PUMA, if there were any justice in the world." For the schadenfreude. See Violet here for the history, especially at 44.
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The comments to Kos' post.....
Oh, they burn. They burn.
Seriously, those people are out of their minds.
You could write a post based entirely on their lunacy.
Oh my!
What a ground breaking post! /s (well kinda snark)
Crickey! Where has this guy been?
The light won't shine long
This will last about as long as it takes for them to find the next shiny object - er, candidate who will fill their heads with hope and change and sugary bullshit. When that inevitably happens, we the cynical ones will once more be shouted down and disparaged. Fun times, fun times.
Agreed! But it might happen sooner...
than later and back to his sugar-daddy. Maybe if Sarah Palin secures the Republican nomination (she won't) or Obama wages war on Southern states (maybe they can carry out offensives from the Blackwater base in NC), Obama™ and Democrats™ will be carte blanche. You know, this will be the most important election/we can't let Palin win or Obama is waging war on bitter gun-owners who are the problem with this country. We see that Bowers and some of the bloggerboiz are personalizing the failures of Democratic governance (i.e., it's all Lieberman's fault!), and even Kos "admission" reeks of this. No, the problem is systemic, it is the party itself, not the politicians therein. But, yes, it won't last. Kos will command his followers to vote Obama/Democratic, and his followers will do so and even dress their pets in Obama™Gear.
It's all about rents and rent-seeking.
Oceania was always at war with post-partisanship
Having been prematurely correct about Obama and single-payer will somehow, never get anyone any cred.
Funny, that.
Well, I don't know about the rest of you,
but I got LOTS of credit about being right all along about the manipulations and deceit that went into the disasterous invasion and occupation of Iraq all the way back in 2002 and 2003! I'm sure we'll all be richly rewarded for our prescience this time, too.
We were only correct about Obama and single-payer
because we are racist!!!!1111!!! ;-)
Never vote for people who hate you.
ERA Now!
The Widdershins
There's very little satisfaction to be found in
having been proved right about Obama, because it means that the things that matter to me are not being addressed the way I hoped they would be - some of them have been addressed in ways that are indistinguishable from the previous administration.
Worse, I do not see Congress filling that vacuum of leadership in any way that might move these issues in the right direction.
I began to feel the disconnect after the 2006 mid-terms, and by the end of the primaries, and even more so now, I am reluctant to identify with this Democratic party; I've grown to loathe the word "progressive," and I defiantly and without apology identify myself as a liberal.
That some of the Kool-Aid drinkers have begun to sober up is no surprise, but I'm pretty sure it isn't going to make a difference; they were useful tools in getting Obama where he wanted to be, and it is clear that he does not feel indebted enough to heed their newfound opposition/criticism - he will brush Jane Hamsher off his shoulders as easily and smugly as he did Hillary.
I think the 2010 electorate will give new meaning to the term "disaffected."
One can hope
Speaking of disaffected, see this from Ian.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi
No harm done
Hey, no harm done.
Sorry, I don't fall in love with politicians. I'm not that desperate.....
That vid is awesome
you should keep it on tap, I'm guessing there's a lot more chances to showcase it coming.
Because the problem is not that we have too little condescension from our tribe. -- okanogen