"By the time I had gone to bed, the chorus of pundits had fixed on a single tune, as they always do, and remarkably quickly, too. (Do they watch one another's feeds in the green room?) They had dusted off the old theme that the Democrats need to "reach out" more to the "heartland." Reach out? How, exactly? Forget that these folks blindly ignored all objective reality -- and their own best economic and national-security interests -- and voted for Bush. Look what they did at the Senate level. In Kentucky, they refused to use even basic sanity as a litmus test, and reelected a guy with apparent late-stage dementia; in Oklahoma, they tapped a fellow who wants to execute doctors who perform abortions, who was sued for sterilizing a woman against her will, who pled guilty to Medicaid fraud, and who largely opposes federal subsidies, even for his own state; in Louisiana, they embraced a man who has made back-door deals with David Duke and who was revealed to have had a long-running affair with a prostitute; in South Carolina, they went with a guy who thinks all gay teachers should be fired; and in Alaska, they reelected a woman who was appointed by her father to the job after a spectacularly undistinguished career as an obscure state senator. And compared with the rest of the GOP Class of '04, she's the freaking prom queen. These are the stellar elected officials that the "heartland" has foisted on the rest of us.
"Reach out" to these voters? Yeah. Then boil your hand till it's sterilized. "
Thu 25 Jan, 2007 06:41 am - [quote="ossobuco"]Blacksmith - some of us here on a2k have come back from the slough of despond. I did with my husband, for another good ten years. And then it all went to the dump.... (view)
Wed 24 Jan, 2007 08:49 am - I expect it will be overshadowed by feelings of relief that we won't have to hear him mispronounce the word "nuclear." (view)
Wed 24 Jan, 2007 08:46 am - Wow, who could've foreseen that response? In any case, yes, I'm sure you're a champion of evenhandedness.
But that's neither here nor there. Lampooning a hypocritical... (view)
Wed 24 Jan, 2007 07:01 am - Gee, if only your "get tough" policy were applied equally across the board... Unfortunately, I am aware of no such position staked out towards the right of the spectrum.
In any case,... (view)
Tue 23 Jan, 2007 06:57 am - And the question does, at long last, have to be asked-- who supported and continues to support this monumental screw-up and why? That some don't care for the way the question is asked or what... (view)
Mon 22 Jan, 2007 04:13 pm - Chai, I told Donna what you said and she wants to have a word with you...
[pulls up a chair and settles in to watch] (view)
Mon 22 Jan, 2007 03:46 pm - Trying to make someone fall in love with you-- or back in love with you in this case-- is a fruitless task. And hanging around trying and hoping is a surefire recipe for endless heartache and... (view)
