I’ll say this for George Bush: you’d never have caught him frantically negotiating against himself to take the meat out of a signature legislative initiative just because his approval ratings had a bad summer. Can you imagine Bush and Karl Rove allowing themselves to be paraded through Washington on a leash by some dimwit Republican Senator of a state with six people in it the way the Obama White House this summer is allowing Max Baucus (favorite son of the mighty state of Montana) to frog-march them to a one-term presidency?Sing it, brother. But I have a question: Was Baucus "allowed" -- or chosen?
By the way: Josh Marshall is doing important work on the fellow who staged the "show of arms" at an Obama event in Arizona. Well and good. But I've noticed something odd about Obama's supporters: They no longer can bring themselves to write pieces in support of Obama. Instead, they spend all of their time and energy pointing out the obvious fact that the president's right-wing enemies are a bunch of loons.
Democrats versus Republicans: Compromisers versus crackpots. In today's America, that's all you get.
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Didn't Bob Somerby spank TPM and Kos for pushing the republican restroom sagas but not really defending Democrats from the lies and smears of the right?
I stopped visiting both places when they allowed Hillary bashing with republican canards.
Just this morning, I caught an O-hole trying to blame the Clintons for the Obama fiasco.
His body will never be found.
But seriously, recent events make it abundantly clear: Clinton-haters will destroy any party.
Why are the Dems compromising with crackpots?
Habit?
I'm not holding my breath for these hypocritical degenerates (who sold out the Dem party for a smooth talker) to apologize to both Clintons and Hillary supporters.
Until that day comes the 0bots can forget about any unity. We will never forget. They crossed boundaries that should never have been crossed and behaved in a completely UNdemocrat fashion.
They need to acknowledge and shoulder their responsibility for screwing the country with Dubya's third term!
I used to hit TPM all the time (never did like the Daily Kool-Aid, though). Firedoglake and TPM both did yeoman work on the Plame affair, but then went blind and crazy under the rainbow of Oglitter showering down over them.
Matt really did lay it down. Good post.
Could the GOPer charge that Dems are spineless have some merit?
Harry Truman where are you?
Dems compromise because they want to be seen as the "nice guys", but that doesn't work when the other side doesn't ever budge.
Of all negotiation strategies ever devised, it's been proven mathematically that T4T ("Tit For Tat"), is the only one that works in the long run. So given that the Repubs have adopted the strategy 'always stand your ground no matter what the issue.' the best tactic for Dems is to do the same.
Sergei Rostov
Yeah, Matt is a good spanker, but he was such an Obot, he should preface anything he writes now with a cowering, trembling, crawling till his knees bleed begging for forgiveness.
Thank you for THIS:
"Instead, they spend all of their time and energy pointing out the obvious fact that the president's right-wing enemies are a bunch of loons. "
BINGO. I was just thinking that...and thinking if any of my Obot friends or family try that tack with me they will get a nonstop, daily no-holds-barred barrage of every last reason they should be shamed for life and begging for forgiveness.
MM -
He probably did. One of his related main themes is that anyone who is a part of the MSM (or wants to be part, or wants to be even quoted by it) must obey the rule of "Never point out that the (right-dominated) MSM falsely bashes/has bashed major Dems."
Sergei Rostov
Perry -
Ok, now I have to wonder: will it someday come to the point where disgruntled former Obots will blame the Clintons for not working hard enough to defeat Obama in the primaries?
(I, for one, wouldn't put
it past them....:))
Sergei Rostov
All you hear about on the Obama supporting left blogs like Hullabaloo is "the birthers" and Sarah Palin. Nothing about what a phony Obama turned out to be and how many issues he's backtracked on. "The right-wing is batshit crazy!" No kidding. So why is Obama trying so hard to kiss their butts?
And of course all you hear from tbogg is that anyone who doesn't support Barry is racist, racist, racist.
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