Failure Is An Orphan
By Mitch Berg
Alternate Title: “They Eat Their Own, Part MLXXXVIII“. El Rider notes the niutroots are out for Rahm Emanuel’s political head:
Okay, if it takes a “member of the vast right-wing conspiracy” to defend Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) then things are not going all that swimmingly over on the other side of the pool. Yesterday, Markos Moulitsas of the Daily Kos asked whether Rahm Emanuel is a racist. A few weeks ago I read a comment stream on Ellen’s Tenth… concerning Rahm and Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) that was bizarre even for those folks. So what the heck is going on?
Feeding frenzy?
Methinks that some folks are trying to move any blame concerning the current congress away from the more outwardly liberal Pelosi and toward the more centrist Emanuel. Some commenters over at Ellen’s place and on the regressive Daily Kos don’t seem to understand what Rahm did last year. He recruited good centrist candidates in vulnerable districts around the nation and not only were those candidates successful but they gave the Democratic Party it’s current House majority.
Thank God for the nutroots – Kos and his regional doppelgängers and anhängers – or the GOP would be in real trouble right now.
November 12th, 2007 at 7:44 am
Thankfully, it all comes out in the wash. The Republicans have their own nutroots dragging them to the unpopular extreme right on nearly every issue, including abortion, immigration, torture, wiretapping, Iraq and public Bible-thumpery. And guess what. You’re it. You have met the enemy and he is you.
H. Fierce
American
(No relation whatsoever to Angryclown)
November 12th, 2007 at 8:14 am
What,again?
Haven’t you guys been saying the GOP would be “Too extreme” on every single one of those issues for the past 25 years?
You’re like the little boys who cried debacle.
HJ Bunnycut
Welshman
No relation to Col. Perman Shooter.
November 12th, 2007 at 8:50 am
Yeah, opposing infanitcide extreme. Wanting to listening in on terrorists calls is extreme. Not being an anti-Christian bigot is extreme.
November 12th, 2007 at 9:53 am
Torture, monitoring millions of Americans without individualized suspicion and forcing rape victims to have unwanted babies, forcing creationism on school kids? Extreme.
November 12th, 2007 at 11:33 am
Hey, wait. This is a echo chamber in here. How did THAT get posted. Why that would almost make clown incorrect in past accusations. The world is upside down.
November 12th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Given that at least four of my prolific commenters are liberal
lawyersclowns and that Peev’s bandwidth bill is going to postpone my kids’ freshman years of college, I think the only “echo” is the one you get yelling across AC’s logical chasm.November 12th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
You are 99% tolerant of other views on your blog, which is 99% commendable. But then don’t you style yourself the world’s greatest free speech advocate?
November 12th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
Huh? Advocate? How?
November 12th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
Duh? Wha? Huh?
November 12th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
You are 99% tolerant of other views on your blog, which is 99% commendable.
Well, to be fair (to me), it’s more like there is a tiny list of topics on which I clamp down on tangents.
But then don’t you style yourself the world’s greatest free speech advocate?
Not so much “style myself” as “accept the calling with Dalai-Lama-like stoicism”.
November 13th, 2007 at 5:10 am
True enough. The first thing anyway.