Thursday, September 13, 2012

One Year Ago Today

ok, here's the professional left

cockburn.  he doesn't have a  day job.  this is his gig.  he's a leftist.  do you think obama's ever heard of this guy? 

elizabeth warren for senate

it's a good start.  if she runs hard against brown, she could really bring some center-left ideas to the fore, not just in her campaign, but the nation as a whole.  go get 'em.

the lemieux apologist axis sputters

aspirant to the office of fluffer-in-chief (internet district) scott lemieux bravely cites only political science texts supporting his position, contends he's only being reasonable, says evan bayh was a stalwart man of principle who could not be bought for a pittance or even appeal to his pathetic vanity, and shut-up!  as i commented:

one thing the apologist axis pretends not to understand is the shallow vanity of the people involved. evan bayh? what leverage could obama have had over such a piece of human filth? certainly bayh and politicians like him have been rock-ribbed defenders of principle throughout history and could never be pressured on anything. yeah, that’s it.


more great krugman response

his 9/11 piece should be an intelligence test, and anybody who fails just goes out to pasture to masturbate and fling poop with george w. bush in texas.  john amato gleefully jumps right in and throws some props to digby along the way.  it's well worth it to read amato's rant and follow through to digby's; these are good days because the lines are turning into fractures, and that will only help in the coming struggle in america.

krugman's excellent professional journey would be a great subject for a book, but suffice it to say that right now krugman is at the height of his unique power to separate the thinkers from the vast majority of vile dopes across the far-too-narrow political spectrum in this nation.  of course, he's no leftist, but he is intelligent and brave enough to use his forum to maximum benefit.

digby's kid makes obama fluffers cry

the son of hullabaloo pisses in the punch of the o'donnell/chait/lemieux/cole/gandy/et al. axis of pathetic obama apologists with his list of just a few possible things obama could have done to move the country forward if he hadn't been a hopeless corporate stooge all along. 

the professional left aren't

they may be professionals, but whether it's krugman or katrina vanden heuvel or bloggers like daily kos or talking points memo, these people are not at all to the 'left' of anything.  krugman et al. are certainly more liberal or leftist than obama or bill clinton, but that does not make them anything more than solid, boring centrists.  when obama pissed on the professional left, he was really talking about the professional center only because the establishment media are surely right wing.

born to choose

as state after red stupid state does their best to make sure that only the richest, most republican women will have access to reproductive health care and abortion, where are the candidates running on strong, unapologetic pro-choice positions?  especially for democratic candidates who might be running as underdogs and having a hard time getting traction and publicity, this loud, proud affirmation of the rights of women would be a good thing for everyone and after long enough, a guaranteed winner.

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