To see the Progblog Commune go bonkers over the sudden realization that, like, holy shit, dude, Hillary Clinton is in it to win it is as enjoyably brain-slowing as beer and a well-rolled fatty. Cries Ezra Klein:
This demonstrates not only a gross ruthlessness on the part of Clinton's campaign, but an astonishingly cavalier attitude towards the preservation of the progressive coalition. To be willing to blithely rip it to shreds in order to wrest a nomination that's not been fairly earned is not only low, but a demonstration of deeply pernicious priorities -- namely, it's an explicit statement that the campaign puts its own political success above the health of the party and the pursuit of progressive goals, and one can't but help assume that's exactly the attitude they would take towards governance, too.Oh the humanity! Care for the "preservation of the progressive coalition" is like care for the preservation of the Jackalope: well-meaning, perhaps, but futile in that the little fucker doesn't actually exist. The "progressive coalition" is a synonym for online, cosmopolitan, highly-educated liberal arrivistes with aspirations toward l'élite. That's all fine and well, but it's certainly not a "coalition." Ripping it to shreds would be like rending the two-page, newsprint coupon stuffer in your mailbox, neither difficult nor significant. Hillary wants to be President. All the outrage of Ezra Klein and DailyKos are snowflakes on the wind. When has either Clinton ever embraced "the pursuit of progressive goals," whatever those are. I mean, the straight line from failing to jury-rig universal health care out of the extant insurance system to cruise-missiling an aspirin factory to sending the boys into Iraq and Afghanistan isn't especially straight, nor particularly progressive as I understand the term. Not that it matters. I mean, let's say that Hillary C. uses a lot of parliamentary hoo-dee-doo to squirrel out a victory in a close nomination fight. Ezra and Chris Bowers and Matt Stoller and the rest of 'em can twist their panties as tight as they like, but in the immortal words of Senator J. Billington Bullworth: What are you gonna do, vote Republican?
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Golly -- a self-seeking, opportunistic politician? A Clinton, even!?!?!? Mercy!
-- sglover
Yeah. Grab your hats and gird your loins, ladies and gents.
Like anyone with a drinking problem, they hate what that Clintohol has done to them.
They hate the excesses it has driven them to. They claim they hate the taste of it, and they can stop at any time. They are going to stop. Tomorrow.
But then comes November, and you find them passed out in the gutter again.
Give Ezra a break, man, at least until his third birthday.
I think this one is actually stupider. In fact, it kind of reminds me of this. (Well actually, this, but, well, the embarassment).
But maybe Ezra is just pretending to be outraged, in a calculated maneuver to try to head off Clinton's use of her superdelegates to win the nomination.
"Oh, it would be an outrage!" he cries, not really believing it would be an outrage, since he'd be more than happy if his preferred candidate did the same thing. He just wants Hillary's nomination, if she gets it, to be tainted, even if that costs the Dems the election in November. Because, honestly, he doesn't give a fuck about the "progressive coalition" either.
That Ezra Klein's one sharp motherfucker, that's for sure.
Klein's only in it for the pwoggie pussy anyway.
What exactly does the "progressive coalition" want to do this time? Win, or be righteous? I have a lot of disdain for the Clintons, and if I'm playing Zarathustra, sitting on my mountain and making proclamations, I'll be glad to express it. However, what exactly is progressive about Batboy Obama? What I've been hearing is so far from classic progressive or populist thinking that I'm confused. He's the same sort of progressive as Woodrow Wilson. Hardly exciting.
Do the Reagan thing -- were we in better shape in 1999 or in 2007? Forget this year, it's a terribly lost cause. Twitshit is irrelevant, the Dems are playing prevent Defense which is fascinating because they're not exactly in power yet and giving in to him and his rump of the 94 Revolution, and most people are losing interest.
The Clintons win. Remember, Bubba ran not as a progressive Democrat but as a new Democrat. Of the two, Hillary appears to be the more liberal. And, there's no one to follow; I suspect Chelsea is sick to death of this crap and will take about as much interest in politics as Caroline Kennedy did until menopause really got going.
What! A politician running for a political office plays politics? I think I'm getting the vapors!
Klein's only in it for the pwoggie pussy anyway.
Dude, if that were true...
I'd almost have to respect the guy.
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