OMG - if you can handle it, Jon Stewart

[whometense]

on the mess in Mass.

Brilliant. Hilarious - but OUCH.

http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/01/stewart-tears-apart-the-dems-on-ma-sen-and-health-care.php?ref=fpb

Edited to add - of COURSE you can handle it - but it depends on whether you're ready to laugh at the situation or not. I laughed out loud several times, almost in spite of myself.

[Luftmensch067]

1. Maybe tomorrow...

I don't think I'm ready for more ouch yet!

[wisteria]

2. I may not be ready for his for several days. n/t

[Blaukraut]

3. Absolutely brilliant!

This was amazingly spot on! Stewart pointed out the painfully obvious at the end. Without Coakley they'll have an 18 vote majority, instead of a 19 - more than Dubya ever had, and more than the repubs has since 1923!

:rofl:

Oh my, that made my day. No matter what happens tonight, we'll get through it, and won't die, either.

:grouphug:

[karynnj]

6. I've wanted someone to say that

The fact is that last year, as Kerry spoke hopefully of Democratic President and a bigger majority, I don't think he ever gave a number higher than 57. The fact is that we still would have a huge majority.

However, I hope the huge turn out means that MA doesn't want the centerfold. (It STILL surprises me that doesn't bother the family value people - could you imagine in 2004, the complete chaos and concern there would have been had our VP candidate been found to have been a centerfold. There would have been talk of the need to throw him off the ticket.

[whometense]

7. Not to mention,

as others have before me, what it would have meant to Martha Coakley's chances of being elected to any public office if she'd ever been featured as a centerfold.

I don't care about the picture; I do very much care about the double standard.

[karynnj]

8. Absolutely true

It would have prevented her from even running for DA. It likely might have been hard even to keep a prosecutor's job. You are right that there is a huge double standard - we aren't far from the Madonna/Whore stereotyping of the 1950s as far as women politicians go. (Note Madonna as in the Virgin Mary)

There also seems a Republican/Democrat double standard. The fact that Vitter and Ensign are apparently (per a recent DK overview) endangered is mind boggling. Vitter broke the law as much as Spitzer did and Ensign's had so many levels of problems that it makes Clinton look good. ( Doubling her pay for work in his two PACs and the RNC giving her son a "job" and then paying the husband off are all really wrong - in addition to the idea that she worked for him - as did her husband.) Yet he is supposedly the most popular politician in Nevada. It is not the sex that was the big problem - other than to their wives - but both broke the law.

[MBS]

4. It was indeed painful to listen to him, but he nailed it.

Yup, we'll survive, one way or the other.

[Mass]

5. It is spot on.\nt

[TayTay]

9. Dead on and painfully funny

Sigh!

Some days you get the bear, some days the bear gets you.