"Liberals are dissatisfied with Obama because liberals, on the whole, are incapable of feeling satisfied with a Democratic president. They can be happy with the idea of a Democratic president—indeed, dancing-in-the-streets delirious—but not with the real thing. The various theories of disconsolate liberals all suffer from a failure to compare Obama with any plausible baseline. Instead they compare Obama with an imaginary president—either an imaginary Obama or a fantasy version of a past president. "
http://nymag.com/news/politics/liberals-jonathan-chait-2011-11/
that's the mutton headed chaitnik writin' there
the liberals begin to devour each other
such are the rations of goo goo guilt
dare we saber toothed pwogs take a bite
out of a fellow travelers hide ?
Comments (7)
Read that article. Seemed inadvertently to be a stronger case for the prosecution than for the defense.
Posted by Chomskyzinn | December 4, 2011 1:01 PM
Posted on December 4, 2011 13:01
And once '12 starts, these same liberal critics will be screaming about how we need to get behind him no matter what or the Koch brothers will eat our children. Even Obots like Mr. Chait are less annoying.
Posted by JTG | December 4, 2011 4:46 PM
Posted on December 4, 2011 16:46
Liberals love their intramural pecking parties. Chait's cock-a-doodle-doo is a signal for all good liberals to turn their energies to party discipline. Peck, peck, peck!
Posted by Al Schumann | December 5, 2011 12:01 AM
Posted on December 5, 2011 00:01
CZ, indeed! His "hard-deaded realism" schtick didn't work quite the way it was supposed to. I wonder if it was written, at least in part, to appeal to egghead conservatives (e.g. David Brooks). They love tales of wooly headed, never satisfied, childishly unappeasable liberals. It gives them chortling and chuckling material.
Posted by Al Schumann | December 5, 2011 12:45 AM
Posted on December 5, 2011 00:45
super Al not prone to my hyperbolic hype
has the level of cross scabble correct
its pecks not bites
far more sadistic of course but nicly non fatal
peck the sickness to stir the patient
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chom
might i gainsay
the outcome is a statistical tie on my score card
unfortunately the -- in the end --
mutual pecking party
remains unresolved
by a sudden death overtime
Posted by op | December 5, 2011 8:33 AM
Posted on December 5, 2011 08:33
The article neatly reviewed and catalogued all of the depravity that drive one to SMBIVA-dom. How someone could slog through the piece and say, "Great, where do I sign up?" is beyond me.
Essentially a refresher course in, well: If you're a Lefty like us, the Democrats are not your friends.
Posted by chomskyzinn | December 6, 2011 3:34 PM
Posted on December 6, 2011 15:34
i guess my point was too simple
the pwog v pwog struggle over lesser evilism
third party alternatives
the threat of a triumphant right
blood spill rates
prison terms
level of transfers
the mix of soft and hard power politics
of compassion and sadism
pwogs are part of the establishment or they
might be if the establishment meets certain "demands" of conscience
SMBIVA is not a pwog op
that we plunge into the same movement waters with pwogs is in no way connected to
any considerations of playing by system rules
the popular front is a final stage
in the defense of the liberal state
so far as i can see the white job class majority still
lives here under liberal state rules
at least so far as and so long as
they don't make it a straregy
to "cross" the establishment
at ever turn
i trust SMBIVA ers can't find enough opporutinities to "cross" the establishment
Posted by op | December 7, 2011 12:17 PM
Posted on December 7, 2011 12:17