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March 16, 2006
Feeling Depressed? Check out the Liberals!
This has not been a great period to be a conservative. The newspapers are filled with dire reports on the president's poll numbers; the Dubai Ports deal, like the Harriet Miers debacle, started in-fighting among the members of the right. And we've even begun to see some conservative pundits beginning to back away from the Iraq War (most notably, William F. Buckley).
But as always, all it takes is a look over at the liberal side to cheer me up. For example, check out the wailing and gnashing of teeth from the HuffPo over the reluctance of Democrats to sign onto Russ Feingold's censure resolution. Here's Ellis Weiner (he's never heard of you, either):
What does this mean to you, the Democrats edging toward the door in flight from Feingold's motion? It means this:
1. Good plays by the rules, within a narrow compass. Evil will do whatever the hell it can think of (and thinks it can get away with) to achieve its ends. In the opera buffa/nightmare that Karl Rove and his goose-stepping Rockettes have made of our politics, you are the Good. Alas. The Republicans are Evil. They have no interest, desire, or (by now) ability to play by the rules. They have been lying, suppressing, intimidating, smearing, and misrepresenting everything in sight since five jokers on the Formerly Supreme Court gave Junior the presidency in what was just the first parade float in an unending cavalcade of hypocrisy that persists to this very day. Therefore, you cannot expect them to 'fess up, be good sports, accept the fact that the ball is going to fall through the hoop, and call Bush to account--in, say, a Judiciary Committee hearing. Why? Because they've been corrupted: by money, by power, by piety, by greed, by self-righteousness, and by ideology, as well as by money and power and money.
David Sirota's so depressed he's reduced to shilling for third parties.
Jane Hamsher (like a lot of liberal bloggers) seems to only get really venomous when talking about Joe Lieberman.
What the hell it is going to take to get them to call Lieberman out for being the coathanger-wielding creep he really is?
(Because Lieberman didn't support forcing Catholic hospitals to provide abortion services for rape victims.)
But as for the Democrats, it's hard to imagine a gap more yawning than the one between the leadership and the citizens.
If you set aside a handful of national figures like Feingold, Murtha, and Gore 2.0, what you hear is timid, fence-straddling, cliche-ridden, condescending rhetoric, focus-grouped to within an inch of its life, and above all designed to appeal mainly to the remaining nine or fourteen or whatever-it-is percent of the country that doesn't care enough about issues to be partisan about them -- partisan in the best sense, meaning take a stand, feel a stake, give a damn. Republican leaders, whatever you might think about them, at least stoke up their base. Democrats treat us like morons, or with egg-coddling caution, as though we'd break under the pressure of straight talk.
So chin up, and put a smile on your face! Remember, we are fortunate indeed in our enemies.
Posted by pat at March 16, 2006 03:51 PM
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Yep. That's the Dems. Of course every time one of them does grow a backbone, like Murtha or Feingold the right-wing spin machine goes on teh attack. That's how war hero's get called cowards on the floor of congress by dishonest little gen-x freshman congresswomen that have never heard a shot fired in anger, and morphed into terrorists in campaign commercials. Much easier to be Joe Leiberman.
And precisely when did the oposition party in this country become "our enemies"? Are you so far gone in your goupie infatuation for "our leader" that you really do equate dissent with treason?
Posted by: IaintBacchus at March 16, 2006 05:49 PM
Thanks, Pat. Perspective is always needed.
She did not call him a coward. She read a letter from a Marine that said cowards cut and run.
Posted by: Aaron at March 17, 2006 07:40 AM