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Les Miserables
What is it with the liberal obsession with Republicans? Saturday Night Live opened the other night with a lame, utterly unfunny parody of congressional Republicans talking up their opposition to Obama and the stimulus bill. (You can actually hear nobody laughing!)
Now in a seemingly more serious vein we see E.J. Dionne in hero worship mode as he accompanies the president to Chicago aboard Air Force One. Already in the second sentence of his writeup we get this:
"He … is not bitter about how little help he is getting from Republicans. But he will never again let bipartisanship become the defining test of his success." (Translated: You had your chance, pigs, but you blew it.)
Then, after Dionne spells out the glories of Obama's vision (he loves Sweden), there's a return to that favorite subject: "And where might Republicans fit into all this? Obama still thinks he'll win their support someday on some issues.…"
What is it with these people? Do they need counseling? Has defeating the Republicans left them lonely? Can they not give up the fights of the last eight -- or is it 14, or make it 28 -- years?
Get used to it, guys. You won, however bitter the aftertaste.
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Mary| 2.16.09 @ 3:33PM
Excellent!
In Italian there's un cretino and un cretino amaro.
The Left as represnted by these losers are congential carpers and bottom-feeders; but then I repeat myself.
If the stimulus is an example of how these guys are going to govern, and if they really are seeking to suppress the voices of their opponents, I think that will hasten their demise.
They don't serve at the behest of the 38% of their true believers. They serve at the behest of 5% of middle upper-crust "moderates" who are motivated in large part by rock-solid antipathies.
That doesn't mean they're going to be fans of Rush anytime too soon, but it does mean that they'll not be able to support the woolly-headed liberals anymore than they can support the far right fundamentalists.
IMS, it was the Rockefeller Republicans who coined the phrase woolly-headed liberal.
I think this cleansing, for lack of a better term, is good. It'll concentrate the saner mind(s) of the electorate on both sides.
I think there is a honorable Left, however small. None have made an appearance on this blog though.
An excerpt here from an honorable Leftie:
The heart of the problem in all of this isn't only with the people of Iraq, it's also with Americans in this age of rapid and uncensored hydra-headed media--and the fact anybody can print anything. The threat there lies in the fact that 80-percent of people in society are grazers (and you can check Chomsky on this, Colonel Malay, or anybody who's served time); non-thinkers that only want to be herded and told what to do. It's those people who read your half-truths online and don't realize you're "independent" for a reason.
I'm phobically allergic to the conservative Republican types the military is rife with, but I've only been in country four months and already I hate liberals. There's plenty of ugliness to report in Iraq (as there are thousands of stories of hope and headway)--and the U.S. military certainly isn't beyond reproach. Nobody's telling you to report on one side or the other. But manipulating the truth because of your own personal biases is wretched and works in the face of progress. The other end of the political spectrum disregards you, Dahr, and now I know why. I thought it was because you're a liar--but you aren't. You don't have enough backbone to be a liar. You're a craven obfuscationist, intent on promoting your agenda at the cost of a menagerie of much braver men and women.
... s.d. liddick
The rest right here.
And check out today's Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson: On. The. Money.
Should be a good series.
We make a mistake if we get in the mud with swine.
The Wilderness should count for something; hopefully the antithesis of what it has meant for present day Democrats: Wailing, dehiscent women; I ask you, what could be worse?
thirteen28| 2.16.09 @ 4:21PM
"Get used to it, guys. You won, however bitter the aftertaste."
That's funny!
Some of these liberals are like the dog that caught the car he chased and now don't know what to do with it.
ConservativeWanderer| 2.16.09 @ 4:44PM
Good point, Thirteen28.
Another part of the lefties' collective problem is that they are just now realizing that winning also means that they are responsible for things going well or poorly, and that they can't blame Dubya and the GOP anymore. That's really got them flummoxed.
JohnnySquares| 2.16.09 @ 6:21PM
These guys know that once King Xerxes finishes appointing every moonbat in the news media to his cabinet, he's going to turn to Hollywood sycophants. They are just making sure their credentials are in order.
But seriously, SNL can't find even the slightest bit of parody in the fact that Congress has "rushed to war" on the recession, with precious little debate in light of 1 trllion dollars in spending at stake?
Alan Brooks| 2.16.09 @ 8:46PM
God how i wish it were still 14 years ago.
when Newt is off the toffler, he is tops.
Brittanicus| 2.16.09 @ 10:01PM
SUPPORT SENATOR SESSIONS BEAT THE MARCH DEADLINE, TO KEEP E-VERIFY, BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE! Demand reinstatement of E-VERIFY? YOUR JOB IS IN PERIL!
WHO KILLED THE E-VERIFY IN THE STIMULUS PACKAGE? Thought the whole idea of the Stimulus bill was to support, the millions of unemployed AMERICAN WORKERS. Instead Speaker Pelosi and Senator Harry Reid in secret and no discussion killed E-Verify. It would have stopped illegal aliens getting jobs. Instead shows you that Politicians are still puppets of big business and the special interest lobbyists. E-Verify costs pennies instead of $ Billions to function?
THE SO CALLED US CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PANDERS TO FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS.
HOW MANY BILLIONS OF DOLLARS COULD BE SAVED, IF US TAXPAYERS WERE NOT FORCED TO PAY FOR EDUCATION, HEALTH CARE AND OTHER GOVERNMENT BENEFITS, INCLUDING AN OVERCROWDED PRISON SYSTEM.
ALL THIS TO BENEFIT PREDATORY BUSINESSES WHO HIRE ALIENS OVER AMERICANS.
BOMBARD THE Capital switchboard at (202) 224-3121 MAKE THEM SWEAT!
OH! YES! AND BUY AMERICAN!
It's a "psychological issue"| 2.17.09 @ 12:43AM
Another example of the left's obsession - with a possible explanation at least in the case of that one obsessor - is at my name's link. I'm being kind, not cruel.
As for the last comment, "bombarding" the switchboard usually doesn't work. The far better solution is to embarrass a supporter and put video of it on Youtube. Details here. If you want to do something, help me push that plan.
kyle| 2.17.09 @ 1:11AM
Short Wlady: Don't laugh at us!
Pingback| 2.17.09 @ 5:40AM
Morning Line - February 17, 2009 : Delmarva Dealings links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Basil Plumley| 2.17.09 @ 8:09AM
The main issues that the Left have problems dealing with are mainly with Reality and Responsibility.
They can not handle either. Thus, they curse the past and damn the future but celebrate the present. Everything has to be politicized because without constant turmoil, they cease to be relevent. History shall treat them harshly for the fools they are.
Teleprompter Messiah| 2.17.09 @ 10:37AM
To be on the Left one must have an emotional motivation, usually envy. To be on the Right is to desire to be left alone. The distinction is why the Left personalize their opponents into polarizing figures; they intrude on the reverie.
Almost every Leftist I have ever met has had an heroic and romantic self image. They are googoos on a mission to accomplish social justice. The personal is political. That is why they make such poor dinner companions and are generally boors. It also explains why they cluster together; it is a mutual admiration society. If you don't believe me, read any biography written about some person on the Left by a person on the Left, the hagiography is sickening.
Right now with Lightworker in the presidency and their control of Congress they want to feel fulfilled that conservative ideas have been repudiated. They are apoplectic that conservatives are not cowed. That means that there is a stumbling block on the way to the Revolution. If Leftists hate anything more it is people impervious to buying their utopic visions.
Bipartisanship meant rolling over, not good faith compromise.
Marc Jeric| 2.17.09 @ 11:45AM
Bipartizanship is the opium of the masses - who said that? Marx? Obama? Bipartizanship should be killed without mercy and Spector, Collins, and that third nincompoop whose name escapes me should be herded out of the GOP.
basil plumley| 2.17.09 @ 6:25PM
@ Teleprompter Messiah
Well stated, great post!
@ Marc Jeric
It's Olympia Snowe-the 3rd nincompoop
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