The Rude Pundit: Random Observations on Last Night's Massachusetts Knockdown:

[HughMoran]

1. Oh, grow a fucking pair already, whiny goddamn Democrats like Anthony Weiner or Barney Frank. You still belong to the majority party, the big majority party. You should be out there shredding Republicans, saying that they want to take us back to the policies of the Bush administration. Put that shit on repeat and use it. The biggest failure of the Democrats since the election of Barack Obama is that they have not made Republicans own the presidency of George W. Bush. It should become ingrained that "Republican=Bush." And the fact that it's not at this point means that idiots are running message for the Democrats. Americans are, for the most part, historical amnesiacs. They've already forgotten how our condition of being deeply fucked was a result of the very policies that Scott Brown ran on.

2. Let's give credit where it's due. Scott Brown won the Senate race fair and square, by campaigning like the underdog son of a bitch he was until a week ago. Martha Coakley should have acted like Hillary Clinton did in her re-election campaign in 2006. Clinton went all out when she didn't even have a real opponent because she knew how quickly the tide could turn against an incumbent, even though she had a 20 percent lead in most polls, even though she won by 31 percent. That's what you do.

3. Briefly (because anger must be released): Fuck you, Massachusetts. Not just for Brown's election, but for voting for Coakley in the Democratic primary. And fuck you because you already have health care program in your state, which made it a fuck of a lot easier to not give a shit about the rest of the nation (and means that it wasn't really about health care). Fuck you, White House and DSCC, for not seeing this coming.

4. While we're bemoaning the loss of the super-duper majority, we have to remember that so many in the Senate Democratic caucus are weaselly fuckers. What were the odds that skeevy Joe Lieberman wasn't going to dick over the Senate Democrats again when it came down to actually voting for health care reform? Or that the cowardly Evan Bayh (among other weasels) wasn't going to cave?

5. Since we are amnesiacs, let's not forget: Among the reasons that Bush was able to get whatever he wanted through the Congress for over five years, two stand out: 9/11 and lying. Had the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 not happened, the Bush presidency was going to be a fucking joke of tax cuts for the rich, culture wars, and trying to figure out how to bomb Iraq. Remember Jim Jeffords switching parties? Remember the stem cell speech? 9/11 happens, and all of a sudden everything is crisis and fear and threats of recrimination and Democrats get rolled, repeatedly. As for the lying, that's not just the wars. It's also the way that Ted Kennedy got burned twice by Bush - on No Child Left Behind and on the Medicare prescription drug act. Kennedy believed Bush and the Republicans would behave honorably and fully fund things. He was lied to. But Bush got to say for the rest of his presidency that he did something for kids and old people.

So what's the lesson? That Obama needs a bomb to go off in a mall? That he needs to make promises he won't keep to Republicans? The sad part is that if a terrorist attack happened, Republicans would immediately start riots against Obama, just as they would have done had Al Gore been president on 9/11. And Republicans aren't even going to sit down at the table on major legislation Obama wants. So what?

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[eppur_se_muova]

1. "Since we are amnesiacs, let's not forget..." Ow. Ow. Ow.

The cognitive dissonance - it burns! :silly:

[ngant17]

2. To Pres. Obama, I would ask: what would JFK do?

During the last year of Pres. Kennedy's life, we know he had 3 important agendas: ending the Cold War, withdrawing US troops from SE Asia, and normalization of ties with Cuba. And also the Apollo-Soyuz cooperative space mission, which was partially related to the first agenda and partially related to curtailing MIC hold on America.

Well, things haven't really changed a whole lot since then. MIC is still in charge. To be sure, the Cold War against communism has been substituted by a permanent war against terrorism, it is clearly not possible to seek a common ground here. Such as arms limitations. Scratch that one. He'll have to figure out some solution later. Possibly start with the fact that 9-11 was all a fraud and inside job (like Gulf of Tonkin). Start promoting the alternative viewpoints here, i.e. "Loose Change".

As for curtailing MIC, a cooperative space mission to the moon or Mars with Communist China might be feasible. Be prepared to hang white-collar NASA uppper management out to dry (traditionally reactionary Rethugs, as evident in 1963)), and do work with your own people on this program. Blue collar NASA will toe the line for the most part.

Withdrawing troops from SW Asia (Iraq and Afghanistan). Yeah, Pres. Obama appears to be on track to withdrawal from Iraq, but he is going the opposite direction in Afghanistan. I suppose that's related to the phony war on terrorism and 9-11/inside job. But getting completely out of SW Asia still needs to be the priority.

Cuba remains the same as it was for Kennedy in 1963. If not done yet, he needs to move positively on this one, and JFK-style behind-the-scenes pro-Cuba negotiations are in order here. End the embargo. Free the Cuban Five. Make those feeble old Miami gusanos and ex-Bastista has-beens go bonkers and rabid. That's the best gauge for success here, not the standard DNC script which is to appease the Miami parasites. If you're not being denounced by CANF, Miami's 18th district/Ilena Ros-Lehtinen, et. al., then you're doing something wrong.

[roguevalley]

7. that blue lady is beautiful. I wonder if they have space in their treehouse

for me. *whimper*

[Glenda]

3. I never heard of the Rude Pundit

:freak:

[XemaSab]

4. Where have you been living?

The Rude One speaks for me.

[Glenda]

5. Under a rock?

I am now seeing the light of day ;)

[XemaSab]

6. .

;)

[MilesColtrane]

8. He wasn't even particularly rude in this one.

Just right on, as always.

See his post, Photos That Make the Rude Pundit Want to Sodomize Some Dudes with Idi Amin's Femur to get an uncut taste of righteous vitriol.

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