
In light of today's hilarious and wonderful MA election results, I command you, you fags and fagettes, to go forth into The Internet and return with the best and most preposterous Donk rearguard blog action. Post 'em to comments. I will be handing out blogroll additions, top-post shouts, and various and sundry other awards, praises, and commendations for your efforts. Gintilmin! Start! Yer. Ngiiiinnnnzzz!
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
CONTEST!
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You can always count on MattY.
WHITE NOISE INSANITY (all caps sic) is always a fun read, and can be relied on for a particularly rabid incantation of the days talking points.
Kay saw the writing on the wall yesterday morning. which we noted yesterday.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_01/022005.php
Oh baby, health care reform. God Damn, health care reform! FUCK YEAH health care reform!!
Come on, you guys are excited for this shit. Admit it.
If this shit falls through, I am going to be so disappointed. I really want to see what happens when the irresistible force of state deficit spending meets the immovable object of Not Enough Money.
http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=01&year=2010&base_name=what_id_like_to_hear_a_congres
this is a worthwhile thread;
http://agonist.org/numerian/20100119/unsurprising_poll_results_from_massachusetts_voters_think_obama_sides_with_the_banks#comment
a good blog even if it's run by a plagarist.
http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=32827#comment-1540546
Activists = the new Nader.
another one. can i enter twice?
defeat is victory: http://mugsysrapsheet.com/2010/01/20/might-coakleys-loss-become-a-democratic-victory/
More for the title of the post and the comments following:
http://lefarkins.blogspot.com/2010/01/health-care-reform-is-dead-for-another.html
I think we really need two separate categories. The Democratic response seems about evenly split between "Massachusetts Voters Are Just Like Stalin, Only Worse" and "Losing Ted Kennedy's Seat to a Republican Is No Big Deal, Really".
Meanwhile, Nate Silver soups up some numerology to console the Donkeys.
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/01/lets-play-blame-game.html
From that Nate Silver link:
Also at a bare minimum, 11 points of blame should be assigned to Coakley.
This is a special brand of masochism indeed.
My favorite narrative coming out of this is the one about how the voters in MA are selfish--better yet, sociopathic!--because they don't want to be robbed twice in order to pay for "universal healthcare." What happened to that famous liberal compassion?
Someone at FireDogLake is already calling for Howard Dean to primary Obama over the health care reform bill.
has digby mixed up the kool-aid yet? by the end of the day the entire liberal blogosphere is going jonestown on us.
Keep them coming fellas and fellaettes!
http://bradhicks.livejournal.com/437243.html
Brad can see the door, but he can't walk through it.
Now, is this restricted to what bloggers themselves write? Cuz if we start allowing their whackjob commenters into the competition, we'll never sort through them all.
I have to go with Kos on this one. Shorter version: "59 > 60 because Joe Lieberman."
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/1/19/827164/-59-votes
Andrew Sullivan on the Agony of St. Jon of the Cohn
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/01/pen-pals-on-the-hill.html#more
For God's sake
E.g., after he reads Cohn's open letter to dems & progs and "wants to look away"--the tears well in his eyes
"The glee with which the GOP is greeting the end of any access too health insurance for millions of the working poor, even as they propose nothing in its stead to help them or to restrain soaring costs for everyone else, is instructive."
God damn you Walter. You fuckin asshole. Everything's a fuckin travesty with you, man. & what was all that shit about Vietnam? What the fuck has anything got to do with Vietnam? What the fuck are you talking about?
The winner is, of course, Sully:
“This is a critical moment. How [Obama] responds will be everything. I think there is a response and that, oddly enough, his chances of re-election in 2012 just rose. He must not return to Clintonism. He must reignite the center around him.” (my emphasis)
Reignite the center? OMFG.
Sullivan has got to be the most koolaid drinkinest motherfucker on the planet. He basically lives under Obama's desk.
For the more philosophical view (also known as the "frantically scrabbling at straws" view), we must heed BooMan:
There isn't any positive spin to put on it, but it could work out for the best in the long run. You never know.
It's like the Chinese farmer said!
Arianna! "This is excellent news for Democrats."
Let's try that again.
Reignite the center around him, christ, that is jaw-dropping. flick the bic of hope till the sparkle of progress reignites then fart like crazy, sir
Well, I don't know if it counts as rearguard, but Tristero deserves something for his post yesterday screaming about THE RETURN OF FASCISM if Brown won.
Hell yeah, so many people losing their shit, its awesome. Just waiting for Olbermann to White Night them all.
Krugster: Now that the Democrats have a lost a seat they've held for 40 years, they should hurry up and an hero by passing the healthcare bill that probably cost them it in the first place.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/fools-on-the-hill/
Enron: Off Topic...I've just been reading your blog. Your'e bleaker than our host, but when are you going to write more?
Am I late to this party?
Anon10:32 cites a Balloon-Juice commenter and asks if "Activists are the new Nader". But why bring in a new Nader when the old Nader will still do?
http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2010/01/19/brown-a-repudiation-of-insufficiently-moderate-obama/#comment-6224
Good reminder about Nader. I was in college then, and I remember those guys [Nader supporters]. I hope they’re happy.
In other words, Thanksralph! Even a Democratic President handed a Democratic Supermajority in Congress along with a huge public mandate can't stand against your awesome trans-decadal mind-control powers!! And we would have gotten away with it, too, with universal health care, renewable energy, and world peace, if not for those meddling Greens back in 2000 and their Mystery Machine!
How could thanksralphery v.2010 not win your prize, IOZ?
Define bleak.
IOZ. You make me sad. I know you could argue that it's all the human detritus involved in the sewage above but you're the one who opened this sewer pipe. I blame you.
And you can have the kitchen stuff but I'm keeping the kids.
Fuck, je n'ai pas su que Monsieur etait l'Empereur aux vetements.
None of you seem to know about Al Giordano--he and his coterie are sure Obama is on their side because, you know, he used to be a community organizer. This might be the last place on earth where people might still believe in 11 dimensional chess, though right now there may be a shift from that way of thinking to the stab in the back theory. In this case the stabbers are "poutragers"--Al's phrase for online leftist Obama critics.
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