One of the most macabre images I’ve ever heard described came in the aftermath of the Asian tsunami in 2004. Before the tidal wave crashed on shore, beach- goers stood around and idly gaped as the water drastically receded. Bewildered, they didn’t realize they were looking at the prelude to a calamity.
The Democratic Party looks more and more like those beachgoers every day, watching popular support recede, oblivious to the Perot tsunami coming our way.
Jonah prattles on about Ross Perot, but I think he knows as much about Ross as he does tsunamis. Mostly it’s jaw-dropping levels of projection as another so-called conservative columnist keeps pushing his bankrupt faux-conservative bullshit.
Goldberg would do better writing about serious things, like how the hard rightwing L.A. Police Dept. just let a gangbanger’s murder witness’s mom get killed while detectives wrangled over paperwork issues instead of getting her moved to a safe location.
Goldberg doesn’t even write about local scams like billboard companies refusing to run anti-cigarette ads blaming Hollywood.
Jonah never writes about real stuff, just delusional “we’re gonna show you all” smack talk. You know, like the Cato Institute’s latest global warming denialist bullshit. Shit that flies only with the “secret agenda” crowd. The kind of folks who get visited by the Secret Service but still keep sending the president threatening emails.
In a world where the best employers Americans can hope for are foreign companies who still grasp the link between employee pay/job satisfaction and quality products and service, where rednecked cops shake down out-of-state non-whites, and American soldiers go postal on our own troops, Goldberg & Co. are still freaking out over Ché Guevara even as rightwing billionaires continue to fund the hate. [more on rightwing billionaires]
We live in a world where Glenn Beck has mentioned ACORN 1,224 times since his Fox News show debuted 271 days ago. [his new target here] A world where Bill Kristol looks at the NFL’s revulsion over Rush Limbaugh and says, “thank God most of the workforce isn’t unionized.” Where wingnuts play military videogames about overthrowing the government of the United States. A world of talk radio hate.
It’s a world where well-mannered sexists can still charm Southerners. In which Republican party officials post images like this one:
Only 20 percent of Americans now identify themselves as Republicans, the fewest in 26 years. Just 19 percent, similarly, trust the Republicans in Congress to make the right decisions for the country’s future; even among Republicans themselves just four in 10 are confident in their own party. For comparison, 49 percent overall express this confidence in Obama, steady since August albeit well below its peak.
The Republican Party’s difficulties are shown in another result as well; in an early assessment of preference for congressional candidates in 2010, the Democrats lead by 51-39 percent.
See also Digby on the White House war on Fox News, and former Bush Press Secretary Dana Perino admitting they went to war with MSNBC.
But lately wingnuts just lie about shit and then go to war with themselves.
Really [yawnnnn] it’s all I can do [yawnnnn] to keep up….
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In Mexico, they do things Jonah Goldberg’s way.
Aren’t you glad you don’t live in Mexico?
And aren’t you glad we don’t still live in Karl Rove’s world?
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Will Pennsylvania be our first single payer state?
More on healthcare:
Senate investigating insurance industry sex discrimination
Blanche Lincoln gets an earful on the public option
WaPost lies about their poll findings on the public option
Joining the army to get cancer treatments
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TBogg on Joe Lieberman, Carrie Prejean, Driving Miss Limbaugh and blog rankings.
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eCONomics:
Reformers win a battle in Congress
Why you should cheer for a weak dollar
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Barely a day into his new job at Fox, John Stossel lies about his work at ABC.
Here in the Cities, the Strib was ranked #25 on E&P’s list of most refreshed news sites. In fact, one of their pages I’ve got open in a tab has refreshed itself over twenty times since I started working on this post.
Barely related, there’s four big sealed packages of phone books on my building’s front steps. They’ve been there a week now and not one of the packages has been opened.
If you spend money advertising in the Yellow Pages, you’re pissing it away.
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Worst political ad since Willie Horton.
Even worse, whoever wrote this ad seems to think that Georgians are absolute morons. Among other things, did you know that ALL Georgian taxpayers are white? And that Georgia Dems are the slaves of California and New York and Paris, France.
The only rat here is the asshole who wrote this Goebbelsian tripe.
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Trying to figure out who the next huge blog will be? I’m betting on FDL to make it to #1. Nothing empowers readers like letting them participate.
Still creeping up on my tenth anniversary as a blogger. I’m thinking a weekday night in November, probably the week before Thanksgiving.
Absent reader suggestions I’m thinking of renting a church basement where we could enjoy non-alcoholic punch and gluten-free cookies.
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10/20/2009 at 8:35 pm
Go Chainsaw, Go Flame
If you go with a St. Paul neighborhood that is close but still not home to you I would suggest.
A stone church or two with the mortar sloppily living in-between the lasting and subtle stones of effort. Perhaps a church sold by the Methodist persuasion that was purchased by Norwegian Lutherans of yesteryear that can be identified by the square root of their feet dived by the same theory of skulls and all the nonsensical nonsense of sense squared and working to this day without anything other that “who would have ever figure it”
Just exactly what “kind” of party do you want have?
A few weeks notice?
Basements or Minnesota River blazing long weekends with the locks and flow off the beaten path bring a tent?
Gluten free minds and all or something like that ?!
Should hats be mandatory?
10/20/2009 at 9:28 pm
Mark Gisleson
Maybe a little more subdued. Hats optional.