"Clapping Harder will not make Jane Hamsher right. No matter who says."

[Cha]

Reposted from Dec 2009.. BlatantLiberal's Diary on HCR..but, oh so timely.

There is a fundamental flaw in FDL's argument...

that is not pointed out enough. Coalitions with political opponents can be desirable when the end goals are the same (ex. lefty groups and libertarians making common cause for marijuana legalization). If they are not, they don't make any sense.

Ostensibly Ms. Hamsher wants a better health-care bill (I actually doubt this, but let's assume it's true for arguments sake). Grover fucking Norquist doesn't want a better health-care bill. He doesn't want any bill. He wants to dismantle the entirety of the US social safety net, repeal the New Deal, and (his words) "drown the government in the bathtub".

The stupidity of this alliance is astounding. How is weakening the President and trying to kill his legislative agenda going to help get "progressive" legislation passed?

Unreal.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/12/25/808924/-Clapping-Harder-will-not-make-Jane-Hamsher-right.-No-matter-who-says.

[HughMoran]

1. That's a great diary entry

It should be required reading for anybody who thinks Jane Hamsher is anything more that a raging idiot.

[Cha]

3. There's no logic or plan..only

raging hate latching onto anyone who will feed that monster.

[madokie]

7. Theres plenty here that do

hang on her every word.

[grantcart]

2. But Wesley Clark had lunch at the same restaurant as Nordquist

They said hi and Clark told him to order the Veal.

Grover then told Wesley about the Pecan Pie.

They both asked about each others kids who played in the same soccer league.

So what about that, huh?

[Cha]

4. Poor

Wesley:).

[Tarheel_Dem]

5. Timely indeed. I'm hard pressed to think of another individual who so

opportunistically undercuts progressives, while being heralded as some progressive soothsayer, at the same time. I could just vomit.

:edit to add :puke:

[firedupdem]

6. She is garbage to me. Once you join up with tea baggers against

this administration, you're just that...a teabagger. I don't read that fdl garbage or anything with her name on it.

[azmouse]

8. Reminds me of the Billy Joel lyric from Angry Young Man:

"Fist in the air and head in the sand"

She's always mad about something and doesn't even know what it is... or care.

I guess one could say 'attention whore' would describe her also.

[Cha]

9. I had forgotten those lyrics ..thanks azmouse

for those lyrics to describe ms hamsher to a tea-bagger. to

[AtomicKitten]

10. FDL has been actively soliciting funding.

It's pretty disgusting that they post CRAP (rumors, insinuations, and flat-out bullshit) to get the malcontents all jacked up and then ask for donations.

[Cha]

11. That's what I figure she's all

about..throwing out the toxic greenham to feed the monster.

[NJmaverick]

12. That was very insightful

[Cha]

13. Yes, lovely how logic trumps

those who throw out fear, lies, and loathing.