Telling Repugs to "calm down"

[SHRED]

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Dear Repubs: None of this matters

You can calm down about "bitter" or "Wright" or whatever.

The Democratic Party will sweep the Congress by a wide margin and win the Presidency anyway in November.
Your pResident and Tom Delay have fucked our country and have placed your Republican Party in the minority, for a long time to come.

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[gratuitous]

1. I thnk we're seeing something extraordinary

Bill Kristol, in his weekly fecal smear for the Times, tried to gin up some fake outrage about Obama's comments. Five letters to the editor were on the Times web site today. None of them granted Kristol any of his points. Every one of them was able to analyze Obama's comments for themselves, and conclude that Obama hadn't been elitist, hadn't been bad-mouthing rural Americans, and instead had been criticizing government policies - specifically Republican policies - that have been screwing over the country for the last three decades of Republican hegemony.

Imagine that.

For the last several weeks, the Fake Outrage Group has been working overtime to manufacture some high dudgeon about these non-issues. They've not just dominated the discourse on these subjects, they've monopolized it. Nobody with an opposing or more temperate viewpoint has been allowed anywhere near a camera, microphone or printing press. And yet, for all their gyrations and effort, people are reaching their own conclusions and ignoring the bloviating of their self-annointed media betters.

Extraordinary.

[malaise]

3. Lou Dobbs poll also

backfired.

[malaise]

4. The most hilarious of them all is Dan Abrams

accusing M$M of fueling it while discussing it ad nauseum.
What they don't realize is that the disenchanted majority have a good idea about their salaries and lifestyles.

[KharmaTrain]

2. It's The Corporate Media Driving This...

Listening to Tweety the other day, he kept claiming that the Obama "bitter" remark was hurting cause that's all he heard on "talk radio" (no mention of which shows he listens to, but I can take a good guess...it sure wasn't Randi Rhodes) and how his "conventional wisdom" KNOWS how this is gonna hurt and blah blah blah.

A lot of the "controversy" is astroturfed bullshit the corporate media looks for to generate "interest"...meainng ratings and revenues. They know that topics like the economy or Iraq aren't "sexy", but making a stink about a scary black preacher or, how dare a Democrat mention either guns or god, and they're on it like white on rice (literally). It's manufacturing news rather than reporting it...and with it generating an echo chamber that Tweety heard on his hate radio.

This latest smear game was a classic example. The Obama remarks came out late Friday afternoon...by early Friday night, the talking heads were already declaring Obama's doom and hate radio couldn't dance fast enough.

The good thing is I believe more and more people are tuning out the "pundits"...and a knock from them could turn into a boost. If they're going after this guy with such petty stuff (and a majority of us aren't fooled by this shit), then he must be doing something right!

[nels25]

5. Long Time to come???

I would hope that it were to be true.

However I am beginning to detect a disturbing vibe that we as a party may over reach in what we do.

This nation is rightly sickened by the last years of GOP rule, and by all indication wants a change.

The key we have to gage is how much of a change will the nation as a whole tolerate??

Obviously the GOP went way to right way to fast and in a way the nation as a whole was willing to tolerate.

We need to ensure that we do not make the so called hard left turn, so much so that we lose more support than we gain.

It is a sad fact of life that their are not as many true progressives in the total population as we might like to believe, and we need to govern accordingly.

I do not mean embrace the DLC approach, but I do advocate clear headed approaches to major changes that we may want to engender, and for God's sake we absolutely must explain to the nation the rationale of why this change would be good for the nation. That is what is known as leadership.

And God knows we have experience far to little of that in this nation lately.

I state this as a progressive but one that also believes in being pragmatic (see FDR).