Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Blawg

Ah ha ha ha. Oh ho ho ho. Liberman's in like Flint. It's a regular love-fest. "We're looking forward," sez Reid. Aieeeeee! sez the Netroots. The Huckleberry Hound rides again.

I mean, if anything strips the veneer of difference from the two-party system better than this shit, I'll eat my hat. Here you have a guy who actively campaigned for the other side, who spent the last six months telling America that Barack Obama was a four-year-old retarded commie nigger Muslim abortionist from the moon, and that proves insufficient reason to strip the guy of his committee chairmanships. What a wonderful farce.

Posted by IOZ at 3:51 PM | email »
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22 comments:

Ashley said...

I think somewhere in there is also the same thing that helped elect the new Prez. Sing it with me: Never be rude to an Arab…

The average left-leaning WASP is more terrified of being labeled an anti-semite than he is of squaring things with some punk turd who manages to keep his seat.

Plus everything you say above is right too. So that helps.

4:23 PM
Anonymous said...

I believe the saying is "In like Flynn", unless this is another esoteric joke or a line from the director's cut of Lebowski.

4:33 PM
Crusader AXE said...

I can handle Realpolitik, so long as they have the bastards gonads tied up in barbed wire attached to a choke collar. Since that is probably not the case, and being profoundly illiterate in French, isn't there a statement about change and remaining the same?

Seriously, if the dipshit strays even a little, they need to do something awful to him. Expose him for the Sonderkommando he really is, or the Judas Goat...to the Mosad. Let them take care of him.

I find the Stevens explusion even funnier. They want rid of him in the Republican caucus, and they want to seem righteously angry at his daring to besmirch the Senate with his greed and general assholeness. However, they appear to like the guy who wants to move for expulsion even less because he's a self-righteous prig from South Carolina who -- according to Wonkette -- manuevered it so the Senate had to stay late on a Friday for a vote, but he blew it off to go to a topless bar in Columbia or something.

Seriously, where's Vespasian when you need him?

5:38 PM
Anonymous said...

Other anon: Some people sez In Like Flynn, others reference the short lived franchise of Flint movies starring James Coburn as a sort of proto-Austin Powers minus the desperate fart and dick jokes, but either version is valid.

6:06 PM
alansmithee said...

Pwoggie heads-a-poppin' all over teh intertubes. Their delusional little civics-class 101 conception of American politics can't accomodate the realities of a system where monsters like Lieberman rule their prissy-pants pwoggie asses. Quel whatever.

6:10 PM
Gridlock said...

Ok, I'll say it.

The dude abides.

6:32 PM
Gridlock said...

also, speaking as a subject living under a parliament that serves at Her Majesty's pleasure this Lieberman thing is hilarious. One of our MPs doing th same thing would at least have the decency to switch sides officially.

The way the donk supported Joe even in the face of their official candidate was also amazing to me, and an early lesson in the great gig these beltway folk have.

6:41 PM
fledermaus said...

Their delusional little civics-class 101 conception of American politics can't accomodate the realities of a system where monsters like Lieberman rule their prissy-pants pwoggie asses.

Now be fair, those windmills ain't going to fight themselves. Someone's gotta do it.

6:41 PM
LA Confidential Pantload said...

Monsieur, did it ever occur to you that Joe meant all those things in a nice way?

7:03 PM
Anonymous said...

Okay, here's a thought I haven't yet seen expressed elsewhere.

What counts is the vote. He's 1 in only 100, things are closely balanced, and many TRULY important things -- treaties, judicial appointments, cloture votes, etc. -- WILL turn on that single vote.

Now, the obvious rejoinder is, how bad does it have to get before you sacrifice that vote?

And the answer is, it's not that bad yet. For all his treachery and smarminess, it's worth swallowing everything that's happened to date for that vote.

For now.

And if the Senate's "collegiality" seems boundless, remember that their memories are likewise. Every Democrat in the Senate is aware of the pressure, and the frustration, and the anger. And you can bet that Joe is as much so as any of them.

I think he's on probation, and that will be used against him continuously and shamelessly. I think every vote (remember, there have been NO votes in the new Congress yet) will be a test. And I think Joe will feel the heat in every test. And I think Reid and others will hold it against him on vote after vote.

Now, you may say, if not now, when? If they didn't cut him off for this, why will they cut him off for a single vote later? And it's a fair question.

I think the answer will become clear when the Senate adopts its "housekeeping" resolution when it convenes. Those resolutions take many forms, and a key characteristic is, how easy is it to CHANGE chairmanships and party allocations after the initial one?

I'll bet the resolution that passes makes it easy as pie to dump Joe on a moment's notice. I wouldn't be surprised if they go out of their way to make that point explicit.

I think what they did was, hoist the rope up, but leave him on his tippy-toes, so he's not quite strangling. Yet.

7:27 PM
Steve Muhlberger said...

OT: Hope you haven't missed this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/movies/18story.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

9:30 PM
Anonymous said...

The previous anonymous meant "hope" where they said "think." At least, I hope so.

9:41 PM
Anonymous said...

From Greenwald:

"The vote to keep Lieberman in his Chair was not even close -- 42-13. Both Lieberman and Howard Dean agree that it was Obama's desires here that were instrumental in the outcome. Of Obama, Dean said: 'He called the shots, and that's fine.' That bodes really well for Congressional independence. Key Obama allies in the Senate -- including Dodd, Durbin and Kerry -- supported Lieberman.

"Senate Democrats believe it's important to reward someone with a powerful Chairmanship who has been a vehement supporter of George Bush, the war in Iraq, the full panoply of anti-constitutional abuses, and an amplifier of the most toxic right-wing toxic points. At the same time, they consider it a good thing to scorn their supporters on what they consider to be 'the Left.' For anyone willing to hear it, they've made as clear and resounding a statement -- again -- about who they are and who they do and don't listen to."

11:34 PM
Alaya said...

I think Anon @ 7:27 got lost on the way to hullabaloo. I mean...what the effing eff? What magical vote do you think Lieberman, of all fucking politicians is going to gift to the Democrats (of all fucking politicians)?

What astounds me the most about mainstream donk thinking is the way they can (sometimes accurately) suss out the meanings of which color stockings Louis XIV wore at supper, and how that was certainly a veiled snub to Cardinal Richelieu, or whatever, and still come to the utterly cross-wise conclusion that they're in on the game.

It's like people crying when Brad and Jen broke up, but less connected to reality.

1:10 AM
Ectoslavia said...

Lieberman is crucial now, like Eliot's Tiresias. He is the mechanism that binds all the fragments together.

2:30 AM
Anonymous said...

Please god -- let anon at 7:27 be a humorist.

5:08 AM
IOZ said...

He's more like Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker.

9:13 AM
Mr.Fundamental said...

the Dude most definitely abides.

9:16 AM
alansmithee said...

Like their freeper counterparts, Pwogs slather themselves in irrelevancies to protect their tender hides from political realites. The fact that Lieberman paid 200K to keep his chair (http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/0808/Liebermans_100K_Peace_Offering_to_Senate_Dems.html) simply doesn't register on their fantasy football view of politics.

9:28 AM
Anonymous said...

$200K?
That's all?
Senate seat ain't worth what it used to be.
anon7:27, I have confirmed it with two sources that Holy Joe is on double-secret probation.
So, there's that at least.

Mike

10:41 AM
bdr said...

IOZ could be in like Slint.

I'd be surprised if he wasn't, actually.

5:35 PM
Ashley said...

@bdr: The phrase is: “In like stent.” Any third year med student or first year Turkish bath aficionado could tell you as much.

12:29 AM

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