"Who the #%^+ else ya gonna vote for, chumps?"

[MannyGoldstein]

They keep mooning the electorate and screaming "who the #%^* else ya gonna vote for, suckers?"

Surprise!

Obviously, their solution is to moon the electorate a few more times per day. Perhaps waggle their junk at us on special bipartisan occasions.

Incredible.

How these nitwits remember to breathe each day, let alone that they make bajillions on Wall Street in their respites between government "service", is beyond me.

Dear Lord: yes, it's kinda funny. We get it. You are, indeed, the greatest prankster of all. Now stop.

Sincerely yours,

Banged-Up Manny

[rhett o rick]

1. Looks like we actually have to have 70% poverty before anyone

including the Corp-Media will notice.

Remember a vote for H. Clinton-Sachs is a vote for more of the same. If you're having fun now, it will get better.

A so-called moderate DEmocrat is a Conservative that is embarrassed by the Republican Party.

Hey Manny, I am glad to see you're still poking the bear. (Attn juries, this is not a sexual reference. Get your minds out of the gutter)

[MannyGoldstein]

2. It's like watching an incredibly stupid movie

I'd walk out in the first 15 minutes, but the damned theater doors are locked.

WTF?

I hope we get to see the results of the first of the 20 or so alerts on your bear-boffing indiscretion.

[babylonsister]

4. Snort!

Here's a hug.

[daleanime]

7. Can a bear....

give consent?

[bvar22]

42. Well,

....you ain't doing nothing without that bear's consent.

[Mnpaul]

9. It's like watching Blazing Saddles

They think that the fake town trick will work every time.

[Wounded Bear]

25. Idiocracy...

at least that one had some legitimately funny lines and gags in it.

Our "comedy" seems more of the Divine kind. I can only hope we survive the descent into hell and live to see the exit on the other end. I doubt it, though, at least in my case.

[blkmusclmachine]

3. 1 Dimensional chess.

[L0oniX]

5. Damn Skippy

[Odin2005]

6. When people don't see their concerns being adressed by politicians they tune out.

When supposedly "liberal" politicians say that the "economic numbers" are showing that the economy is improving the guy on the street with a shitty job, massive student loan debt, and no hope for the future, sees it as the politicians being out of touch with reality, the ACTUAL LIVED REALITIES of people. People don't care about economic abstractions, they care about good jobs and other things THEY CAN SEE IN THEIR DAILY LIVES.

[840high]

15. Amen.

[MannyGoldstein]

33. This is exactly it.

Elected Democrats needed to deliver real relief to real people, not just economic-number fakery.

They failed.

They lost.

We lost.

[AndyTiedye]

8. This Defeat Can Only force the Party Further to the Right

We would all like it to be otherwise, but the left hasn't got any money, and it takes a ton of money to win.

At least as much of a problem there aren't enough of us in the red states, and those that are there have their votes diluted by gerrymandering.

[RKP5637]

32. This is not a democracy, but many still believe it is. It is rigged all the way. And what should

be a simple vote yea/nay is construed and maligned all over the place to get the desired result.

[BlindTiresias]

10. No you damn commie

The real solution is to browbeat and verbally abuse "non-voters" and tell them if they are suffering then they "deserve it". This is a surefire way to win back the electorate!

What would also be useful is if we totally alien the 18-35 crowd because as we all know the human lifecycle works like in Mork and Mindy and they are not going to be around very much longer. A winning strategy.

[MisterP]

11. votes are only important to them as a way to 1 keep people invested and 2 blame them

whenever it goes wrong

the corporate money flow remains the same whether you've won or lost

[DeSwiss]

12. K&R

[n2doc]

39. Most eligible voters did just that

And see where we are. Nowhere!

[Rex]

13. You just don't understand, you have to wait half your life for the Perfect Congress

to come along and fix all our problems! Just wait, you have time right? We all do, sure I can wait...

Perfect Congress any decade now. I heard it said with pride from a neo-liberal.

What do you think is worse? A neo-con or a neo-liberal?

[Major Hogwash]

21. And then take it for granted that they will win, and don't bother to vote!!

Like a lot of Democrats apparently did this year!!

[KG]

28. c'mon! don't you know, the more dems elected to congress, the more liberal it will be!

yeah, I lulz'ed when read that tripe the times it's been plopped onto this site...

[Cosmic Kitten]

14. Just wait till the Third-way finishes their purge...

of progressives, lefties, and other assorted undesirables.

Then we wont be bothered with questions like,
"who the #%^* else ya gonna vote for, suckers?"
The Third-Way is a prelude to the
brave new One-Party System ?

[Odin2005]

16. From my Marxist POV we already have a one-party system.

The oligarchy of the Capitalist Party.

[Cosmic Kitten]

17. You're such a cynic ;~)

We still have the Inner and Outer parties

[Odin2005]

18. Shhhh, do you want Big Brother to hear us???

[TBF]

24. ^^ This nt ^^

[woo me with science]

36. That's the truth.

But all awareness of it is soon to be swept under the rug again as a Republican takes office and Third Way Dems put on their "loyal opposition" costumes again and wail helplessly along with the rest of us at the predatory agenda about to be expanded even further.

[bvar22]

43. I wonder if we will hear that the Republicans....

... need 60 votes in the Senate to get anything done?


I think THAT excuse will go quickly down the memory hole.

[woo me with science]

44. +1 That will make for a very interesting comparison, won't it....

A *very* interesting comparison.

[Marr]

49. +1

[LiberalElite]

29. But it's unthinkable that the rest of us would

want to PURGE the Third-way. That makes us just like Stalin! What's wrong with the Third-way???

[stillwaiting]

34. If the Third Way purges leftists from the Democratic Party so that another party forms then...

... they have won.

Of course, they are currently winning since they clearly control the Democratic Party Leadership and far too many Democratic Congress Critters, but if they get the left to splinter off, then their financial agenda will be even more firmly established and implemented.

They (i.e. DLC/New Dems/Third Way) have disrupted the Democratic Party very, very well over the past few decades, and we have a shit ton of work to do to take it back from them.

Things will continue getting worse for most until we do, and we have to find a way to expose what's happened to the Democratic Party to the masses so they will both understand it and believe it. Then we have to get the public to understand that the only solution to the problem that continues to plague our government is a progressive solution. Easy, huh?!

That's going to take a lot of work, but we have to do it.

[DRoseDARs]

19. We were served a selection of shit sandwiches, I decided I wasn't hungry...

...and it's MY and MY GENERATION'S fault the Republicans crashed the party?

[Odin2005]

37. Same people who think we Millennials are "narcissists" and "entitled".

Yes, how dare we want good jobs and a fair society!

Oh, and Hi, Toggle-Caps!!!

[DRoseDARs]

38. While I never bought into the Obamania, WE got him into the WH twice...

It was Millenials that were the driving forcing behind both his election and reelection, because they believed in the <strike>slick marketing</strike> magic of Hope and Change (whereas I saw a green first-term senator who needed to spend more time in Congress to learn better what he was up against). It's pretty clear to all but the deluded that the youngest generation of voters were once again useful idiots. We should just be quite and let the adults handle things once we get them into office. As it always was, as it always shall be. Our generation will do this too to those that follow us.

And

[adirondacker]

20. The problem is the lack of Joementum!

We need to start a petition and get this guy out front pronto!

[Scuba]

22. Who am I gonna vote for? Well, not THOSE guys ...

[woo me with science]

41. Perfect.

[cyberswede]

46. I'd like to rec this cartoon.

Funny...yet too true to really be funny. *sigh*

[NaturalHigh]

23. Like I've said before, Manny...

you have a way with words.

[KG]

26. K and fucking R

because, when you boil down the ranting raving of the party loyalists, this is the essence of their rhetoric.

[99Forever]

27. Strange that their "message" isn't working, huh.

Wonder what Mr Einstein would have to say?

[RadiationTherapy]

30. And criticize people for trying to be discerning as if they are "unicorn hunting."

[JustAnotherGen]

31. That's why we need bloody primaries

And I'm not just talking about Executive offices.

[woo me with science]

35. Don't worry, Manny.

Pretty soon we won't have to worry at all about Democrats being upset with their party.

We're about to have a Republican president again, all part of the plan.

And when that happens, all those corporate Dems will miraculously become the passionate opposition again. Of course, it will all be carefully and mysteriously futile in terms of policy.

But the important thing is that Dems will be consistently SAYING the right things again, and looking like the firebrand populist party we need them to be.

And the people will be reassured that we really do still have a Democracy, we can stop all this silly talk about oligarchy and needing fundamental change and such, and we can all go home and watch "Hunger Games" and grouse because our only problem will be that Republicans are in office for a little while and we need to get them out and the Third Way Democrats back in.

[BlindTiresias]

45. Not this time

Tricks like that can work for a while, but not forever. Eventually the hegemonic games break down.

[bvar22]

48. "Democrats are willing to bravely support any progressive bill....

"..as long as there's no chance it can pass."

http://www.salon.com/2010/02/23/democrats_34/

[Zorra]

40. Memo from 3rd Way: This ain't Burger King, sport. You get it our way, or you don't get it at all.

Keep Calm and Continue Groveling.

[cyberswede]

47. Sad but true. nt

[woo me with science]

50. kick