Thank you, Dick Cheney, for giving me the proper words.

[alarimer]

I think David Sirota sums up my feelings for the likes of washed-up has-beens like Even Bayh who insist that we progressives are to blame for the losses.

http://www.openleft.com/diary/20752/thank-you-dick-cheney-for-giving-me-the-proper-words

Evan Bayh and Third Way and The Democratic Strategist and the DLC and all the professional pundits and cable-TV zombies and D.C. spokesholes - all of you soul-raping corpses and shit-eating poindexters paid to appear on my television screen and scream at me about liberals ruining everything, please, I beg you on behalf of the silent irritated majority: Just go fuck yourself.

Go fuck yourself because all of your arguments are about what policies should be pursued to rescue Democratic politicians' electoral future, rather than about what policies are needed to rescue, say, the fucking country's future. Additionally, go fuck yourself because if you know so much about winning elections and if you are so sure conservadem-ism/Blue Dog-ism is the way to win said elections, how come it was the conservadems/Blue Dog candidates - not liberal candidates - who lost the most elections this year?

Also, go fuck yourself because the fact that you are even trying to create the same old bash-the-liberals debate exposes you not just as substantively wrong, but as professionally employed to despoil our culture with bullshit -- and specifically, with bullshit that you know is bullshit. That, really, everyone knows is bullshit.

The facts are painfully apparent. Though hundreds -- if not thousands -- of people in D.C. are professionally paid to pretend these facts require debate and analysis and parsing and speculation and press releases and pithy Tweets and Sunday Show roundtables and C-SPAN symposia and to-camera cable-TV rants and lengthy thousand-page books, they don't require any of that. The facts are simple. The facts are obvious. The facts are undeniable to anyone not paid fistfulls of sweaty money to lie or sensationalize..

I couldn't put it more succinctly.

[eleny]

1. Sirota doesn't ever mince a word

And the left wing isn't taking any crap from the DLC insiders and their pundits on the payroll.

His local radio morning show is one I always check out.

[bemildred]

2. Bravo.

"Pay no attention to the little man behind the screen."

[SaveOurDemocracy]

3. K&R

[MarinCoUSA]

4. Thank you DS. This piece is a keeper.

n/t

[Ken Burch]

5. self-delete

dupe.

[Ken Burch]

6. Well said...

And "Shiteating Poindexters" would be ANOTHER great band name.