Oh me oh my. Every Bourbon's favorite not-so-sans-culottette is in a high state:
I cannot believe that the Democrats voted for this en masses on the merits. It had to be a deal of some sort, or some kind of assurance from the powers that be or something that I'm just not getting. I'm usually pretty good at figuring out the kabuki of these inexplicable legislative actions but in this case, I'm stumped.Where ya goin' with that shotgun, pa? It's just too precious for words.
Prior to the sugar buzz of their lately lamented electoral successes, our dear Donkle friends spent a lot of time fretting over various tired, cryptoMarxian theories on the false consciousness of the vast, flat, dreaming heartland--how those people kept voting contrary to their interest, even as they were betrayed at every turn. Now for all the world to see the geese nest, the cows are comin' home, the mallards return to the lakes, the crocuses sprout, the grass greens again. Every single Senatorial mule whinneys out an "Aye!" to expanding our aggressions, including the sanctified, reified, beatified Russ Feingold, and Los Netroots cry, "Why!?"
Digby's coblogger tentatively embraces the light:
Is it possible that 97 voting senators all want a war with Iran? Seems hard to believe, but in the absence of any serious opposition to expanding this war, what else could they be thinking?Nothing else, you heaving morons! Cry havoc and let loose the dogs! They are veritably slavering to get their war on. This ain't 1976, boys and girls. Why flee the rooftop when you can fly next door and bomb the roof?
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Personally, I was glad to see Digby and Dover address this, since, apart from Firedoglake, I have hardly seen it mentioned in liberal/progressive/Dem blog circles. I was glad that there was no elaborate excuse-making, either, even though I would love to think there is some super-secret, wonderful Democratic strategery afoot that explained the 97-0 vote as something other than what it so evidently is. I would like that, because Dems are the only present hope for turning this thing around, given our one and a half party system. It's a false hope, a fools hope, a desperate grasping at straws, but what the hell. Of course, things like this abortion of a vote, in which Holy Joe, the war party of one, is practically getting blown on the Senate floor by the assembled Democrats, makes even that sliver of a hope utterly empty. Oh well.
Your last best hope? Brother, build an ark.
One-and-a-half party system? I think that's a serious overestimate.
further evidence that republicans = democrats?
What kind of music do we play here?
We have BOTH kinds:
Country AND Western!
Remember kids, if you don't vote, you can't complain.
Hey, where are you going? Come back!
it could be that the dems aren't as militarily expansionist as the reps. it could be that iran presents an opportunity for them to show america how to competently execute an imperialistic vision. but as always, nevermind the moral question of empire.
ps--junior, it's been a while since any comment here made me laugh. "hey where are you going" was great. thanks.
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