Sorry. I'm trying to think of something pithy and snarky about the outcome of the race in Mess-achusetts, but all I keep coming up with is, "Thanks, Rahm."
And Joe Lieberman and Evan Bayh can go fuck themselves - the people in this country are angry and scared and depressed and exhausted and one medical disaster away from bankruptcy (and possibly death), and YOU TWO FUCKS think the Democrats need to move further RIGHT?!
Seriously. Go fuck yourselves. It may not be an eloquent request, but it's heartfelt.
.
Amen, sistah.
Time for a serious effort to build a progressive party, separate and well apart from the Dems.
Twenty, thirty years, if the country isn't shoved, face first, into a corporatist theocracy before then.
Coakley is a symptom, not a cause. Dems seem determined to avert their eyes from root causes. That's why they think they now have to move even further rightward.
Fuck `em all.
Posted by: montag | January 19, 2010 at 11:08 PM
Gah.
It was embarrassing to tell people I was from Massachusetts before this. It's still not as embarrassing, however, as being a member of the Democratic Party "leadership."
Posted by: Anonymous | January 19, 2010 at 11:11 PM
It's quickly becoming common beltway and media wisdom that people hate the health care bill because it gave too many concessions to the liberals, and Obama better start courting Republican bipartisanship if he's to have a chance of winning re-election in 2012.
Posted by: Max | January 19, 2010 at 11:19 PM
Yes, the people hate the health care bill because it doesn't f*ck them enough and is too stingy to the kind insurance companies. This is what happens when you have a media that belongs to the right-wing.
Posted by: Keara | January 19, 2010 at 11:26 PM
To the Dims: go to reconciliation - go directly to reconciliation - do not pass go - do not stop at the red lights of life - directly to reconciliation!
Posted by: raceynora | January 19, 2010 at 11:57 PM
The Democrats had a "filibuster-proof" majority for most of a year and they did squat with it. So now it's been taken away. Will they learn from this? Will Harry Reid turn into Lyndon Johnson? Will monkeys fly out of Joe Lieberman's toches?
Posted by: Iamspartacus | January 20, 2010 at 02:07 AM
Screw this crap.
GO JETS!
Posted by: wa ching | January 20, 2010 at 04:37 AM
As of this morning, Lieberman's irrelevant. Harry should start the day by kicking Joe out of the party.
Posted by: Hecate Demetersdatter, Runnymeade Conspirator | January 20, 2010 at 07:41 AM
Right, Lieberman should be kicked out, but dems won't do it.
By the way, the right margin is covered up by the strip. thanks
Posted by: Carol | January 20, 2010 at 08:32 AM
Amen, amen, amen........
This am NPR was going to Lieberman for comment.....on the Christmas Day 'tersist debacle. I switched off the radio....who the hell cares what Joe has to say about anything.
As a lifelong Yellow Dog....I'm ready for a Progressive Party!
Posted by: Sister Faith | January 20, 2010 at 08:57 AM
This ain't no disco
This ain't no party
This ain't no fooling around
The deal: Have money or don't.
No money
No Freedom
Posted by: wa ching | January 20, 2010 at 09:52 AM
i hope the people of mass enjoy the dumb asshole they just elected. i'm not that's for sure.
Posted by: moi | January 20, 2010 at 10:01 AM
The Dems lost not because the tried too much (the message that the political establishment will take away from this), but because they did too little. Too little stimulus. Too little clamp down and push back on the banks. Too little (and far to prolonged and compromised a process) health care reform.
Posted by: DrDick | January 20, 2010 at 10:33 AM
You want my honest opinion, DrDick? Obama shot his wad when he bought off the bankers.
Game over right then and there.
But I'm feeling a little . . . bleak . . . this a.m.
Posted by: watertiger | January 20, 2010 at 10:44 AM
I'm quoting you.
Posted by: whaleshaman | January 20, 2010 at 11:12 AM
Until we can wrest the microphone from the bloviating propagandists, have real election reform and get ourselves an assload of $$$$$$$ to run some real aggressive third party campaigns we might as well leave this shithole as we throw a lit match over our shoulders on the way out or stage a real revolution. I can't see any other way.
Posted by: Capt. Bat Guano | January 20, 2010 at 11:23 AM
Watertiger -
That certainly did not help, but I think he and the Dems could have recouped from that if they had aggressively moved ahead on health care and a bigger and better targeted stimulus (more infrastructure, aid to states, and expanded benefits to unemployed workers and less tax cuts)instead of compromising with themselves. Mortgage cramdown would have been good as well. As it is they have royally fucked up all their signature issues.
Posted by: DrDick | January 20, 2010 at 02:46 PM
right is NOT CHANGE.
fuck lieberfuckenputz. NO SOUP FOR YOU!
Posted by: pansypoo | January 20, 2010 at 04:16 PM
I'm done. I will no longer identify myself as a Democrat. I cannot tolerate being affiliated with the bunch of chickenshits running that party.
And that goes twice for you, Mr. President. Being allowed an opportunity to sniff your panties never was and never will be enough to get me to vote for another Democrat.
Posted by: karen marie | January 20, 2010 at 04:48 PM
What I still cannot figure out is if Obama was naive and thought he could get things done or if he was a plant who was always going to help the corporate overlords.
I have to think that because he had considered Bayh as his VP and he named Rahm as his Chief of Staff that he was already bought.
Sorry, but maybe the draw of being the first black President was too much to turn down no matter what the cost.
Posted by: moistenedbink | January 20, 2010 at 10:24 PM
Screw this crap.
GO JETS!
Posted by: wa ching | January 21, 2010 at 01:47 AM