"We can easily be the catalyst for yet another romp in 2010, yet we are again ignored"

[kpete]

Friday :: Dec 18, 2009
Kill the Bill?

by paradox

Please don’t, the political consequences to emboldening the pathetic Republicans and loss of face for the monstrous failure would be tragically damaging to Obama and the Democratic Party brand (such as it is). A simple hippie, I’ve viewed the entire HCR evolution as a very regrettable lost chance for single payer and a very wearying wait to accept whatever is eventually shoved at the little people. Party members who view such a stance as obstreperous immature disloyalty can take off, did I turn into a Naderite over it all? Millions have, the price in the past for flipping the liberals continually off has been horrifying,
(1)yet I am still here.

(1) After nearly a year of the Obama Presidency it’s safe to say the old Clintonista trick of continually ignoring or deliberately slighting liberals is in full play; as the mighty MeteorBlades of Daily Kos so aptly remarked, Obama promised to listen to everyone but obviously could give a shit about the automatic votes of liberals.

How quickly we forget the horrifying results of that ridiculous political stance from 1999: Ralph Nader and Florida. George Bush, ignored August memos and all the rest. Liberals have always been the core activist element of the Democratic Party, we can easily be the catalyst for yet another romp in 2010, yet we are again ignored. As Digby at Hullabaloo keeps telling us so wisely, asking for any kind of replay on that is really bad, bad politics.

(2) I remember George Bush giving a daytime press conference, and just incredibly not twenty yards away Dick Deferment Cheney was cruising in the shrubbery, I fucking kid you not, a sort of old-school butler’s huffy arrogance as he looked after his charge giving childishly offensive answers to a disgustingly lame kiss-ass corporate journalism corps.

As bad as Cheney was and is, the idea of a pathetic American President fully aware that Master Darth was twenty yards away to keep his needledick in line, it’s all good with him, my God that’s beyond horrifying. we as a country can never let these freaks get a hold of the Presidency in at least our lifetimes again, they’ve simply regressed out of any reasonable human parameters.

more:
http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/014636.php

Pass the bill that rips up the hearts of so many of my brothers and sisters, get on with it already, I’ll be there in 2010.