One Year Ago Today

panic on the streets of birmingham

i wonder to myself.

the murdock/news of the world shit was bad bad bad, and now cameron has called out the dogs, john aravosis style, and the best we can hope is that the state-sponsored violence turns the riots into revolutions born in the blood aravosis and cameron and other facists so dearly yearn for with the end of cameron and the tories as a big sticky sweet bonus.

walker recall in wisconsin. refund? refund??

the fact that genius election vote counting guru nate silver says that the walker recall is a toss-up should make many on the side of the angels fling themselves in front of atrios's super-speedy supertrains en masse.  

toss-up?  toss-up!!  refund! refund!!

only a toss-up?  ruh-roh.  i mean, this guy is one creepy fucker.  he looks like the pedophile who gets his ass kicked by the other pedophiles for being too creepy.  he's been raping the rights of workers and the common sense of everyone else right out there in the middle of the playground, but it's only a toss-up?  what does he have to do to so anger the citizens of wisconsin to guarantee that his recall will be better than a toss-up?  i understand that he's a minor demon in the evil panoply, not exactly reagan, cheney or someone named bush, but still, he's a dim-bulb koch brothers catamite with all the political skills of a greasy bowel movement, and the best anybody can hope for is a toss-up?  jaysus tap dancing christ.

at the point of toss-up, the democratic/progressive/liberal cause is well and truly fucked to death.  walker's recall should only be a statistical landslide.  never again will it be this simple.  never again.  gotv, canvassing, working the media, none of them are yet good enough.  if you can't be the best in little league, there's no chance you're a winner in the big show.  kos can be as strangely elated or elatedly strange as he wants, but it's all whistling past the graveyard of american democracy unless the good guys can do better than delivering a toss-up against that dickless wonder walker in wisconsin. 

wisconsin disaster fluffing: kos y digby

i understand.  i do.  kos has to keep the fannies in the seats, so he will fluff the epic failure in wisconsin yesterday in order to keep people happy and keep the money coming in.  it's totally natural for him to do this.  he's not a cup-7/8-empty kinda guy, he's a cup-1/8-full kinda guy when it comes to keeping his sweet gig going strong.  and digby is great at being digby, so she really wants it to work out well in wisconsin.  i have no problem with that.  she's got an excellent perspective on lots of the most important issues in politics today.

but wisconsin was absolutely an epic failure last night.  the issues facing the voters were as simple and as clear as they have ever been or ever will be again.  there was anger, infrastructure, national media coverage, lots of support from outside wisconsin, and money money money.  yet, they failed.  getting rid of that jerkoff randy hopper was great, but it should have been 6/6 for the good guys.

if the voters in wisconsin had had the slightest interest in understanding their desperate situation and being educated or learning the truth on their own, they had an outstanding opportunity during these recall campaigns.  republican districts or not, this was a chance for the citizens of wisconsin to change their situations for the better, and for whatever reason, they did not.  they refused to change the paradigm.  the democrats did not take power in the state senate.  it was a failure.  anyone who was energized by such a disaster is probably already lost.

lots of excuses are being made, and the activists have no choice but to fight on if they are not indeed going to commit suicide by supertrain.  the teabagging assholes are gonna take this as a win though.  labor especially needs to do better or it's lights out on america. 

never been in a riot, never been in a fight

panic on the streets of london, indeed.  it's really funny to see the fascist-minded supposed liberals/progressives like john 'shoot the unarmed rioters' aravosis at americablog.  these are the kind of soft-headed assholes we don't need any more of in the united states, especially those who think they are 'liberal' or 'progressive'.  more encouragingly, there have been plenty of posts and comments flitting across the internets from better folks who know some history, understand some economics, and have some more sense than the likes of punishment queens like aravosis.

indeed, riots are almost never political, but their environments are always created by political and social reality.  shooting unarmed protesters, no matter their reasons, is murder, john.

john kerry? patty murray?

that's the best they could do?  sweet jesus we are fucked.  of course, max baucus makes it 4 arch-conservative senators on the super duper congress death panel. 

investigation in alberta darling's district?

big fucking deal.  and so what?  if the people in wisconsin had voted better, it wouldn't be close enough to steal.  nice going.  how much hateful, deadly bullshit did they need from that pedophile-looking weasel scott walker and the web-toed koch brothers?  what was it going to take to make them at least try to save themselves?  assholes.  bring back favre while you're at it.

hop along, randy hopper

ginormous fail in wisconsin, but at least that shitty cocksucker randy hopper is out.  a little bit of better karma, you cheesehead bastards.