Meanwhile, at that bastion of DNC ass-kissing - Balk the Left, Big 'Tard Democrat is desperately trying to beat the flames out in his comments section. Seems like someone let slip about a certain AP article which outlines just how crappy the much coveted Public Option Brand toy really is. Unfortunately, he's using an "Impeach the Source" type of squirt gun on the inferno and, like all know-nothing fauxgressive DP shill-wannabe's, Big 'Tard can't take the heat...
Interesting that one of the BTD-commentators, Ian Welsh, mentions that the public is going to be right pissed off when it occurs to them just what a clusterfuck (his words) this "reform" is. But even that's missing the point. (Although maybe Ian got around to it later, after I'd cut out.)
ReplyDeleteThe real point is that a "backlash" against Democrats will mean nothing in 2013, when (I presume) this particular monkey wrench starts being squeezed around our collective unmentionables. They're counting on people's short memories, and on some marginally opposed group of fuckwits being in office en masse by then.
It's sad that our best hope at this point is that a wave of GOP jaggoffs sweeps into office in the mid-terms, and is so colossially stupid that it torpedoes all this "reform" just to "get back" at its (supposed) sworn idelogical foes: President Change and His Change-ettes.
I really didn't want to wake up one day with the knowledge that what we have now is still better than what Changey wants to shove up our noses with his "reform," but I suppose that it was inevitable.
As far as the a-list pwoggie bloggies are concerned, all they really care about is getting something they can plausibly call a 'robust' or 'medium' or what-the-fuck-ever public option. They think it'll be necessary to placate their rank-and-file pwogs, since they've been promising them the moon and stars and lower co-pays since the God-Emperor was elected. (Fewer page hits would be a catastrophe, dontcha know.)
ReplyDeleteThe really silly part is: the a-lister's regular readers, Koswhacks and Shakers and whatever, are already a presold audience. They'll stick around so long as BTD and Pwogman keep offering easy solutions and feel-good rhetoric, along with a little snobby hippie bashing.
Word on the street has it that the colossally stupid jaggoffs have already arrived--with a plan.
ReplyDeleteFeel free to elaborate on that, Mr. O'Neal. I'm all ears.
ReplyDeleteFormal reports are expected imminently, but preliminary analysis is that a new wave of mindless idiots -- inspired by the teabagging episode -- has entered the electoral arena as candidates, with GOP and industry agents recruiting them to harness their anti-social energy to more focused objectives. Initial estimates of the situation are that -- unlike the property rights fundamentalists of the mid 1990s -- these malcontents have difficulty mastering the most simple tasks of communicating in the public realm--literally standing stunned before audiences when asked such difficult questions as, "What credentials do you bring to public affairs?".
ReplyDeleteWell, so long as they bathe. I guess it's all good. :/
ReplyDeleteSo, the GOP has been reduced to recruiting the hillbillys from Deliverance? Well, I guess that banjo kid couldn't do any worse than Biden.
ReplyDeleteWe'll know they've been mainstreamed when progressives start defending their sincerity.
ReplyDeleteYeah, the progs used up all their fatuous accusations of mental illness on us already. :/
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of fatuous blogging, are either of you fans of the White House http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/ blog?
ReplyDeletePLEASE, Spartacus. Not while I'm eating. :(
ReplyDeleteNope.I have a medical excuse. I'm schmaltz intolerant.
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