Bizarro World

Posted on 12/23/2009 at 9:37 pm by Bob Cesca

All I have to say about this is, “WHAH-HUH?”

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  • veralynn

    wasn’t it FDL that posted something the other day with someone saying the left agrees with the teabaggers? I am so tired of this from the so called left. Either you want Sarah for president or you don’t. If you do, join the republican party. If you don’t, shut the fuck up. Try making the bill better within the stupid, fucked up system we have. I am all for politicians not lying or playing fear politics, but come one people….What you are doing is making it more and more likely that Sarah will be President. Or Bachmann or any other nutjob.

  • http://www.intoxination.net IntoxiNation

    God knows I have my problems with this bill, but FDL is going beyond the pale. It’s all about power and recognition over there.

  • eljefejeff

    I’ll bet Lee Stranahan agrees with them

  • jaywillie

    From a comment I saw at Dkos:What’s it say about you when your political enemy is Bernie Sanders and your ally is Grover Norquist and you call yourself a progressive?Yeah…Jane and FDL have jumped off the cliff.

  • GOVCHRIS1988

    I don’t believe this. SEN.BERNIE SANDERS!? The quintessential liberal? No, this is it. I can no longer call myself a progressive. The root word for progressive is “Progress”. You don’t progress by threatening the “REAL” most liberal member of the Senate and side with Grover Norquist, whose economic beliefs have come to reality thanks to George W. Bush. No. Im sorry. I can’t do this anymore. Progress is not part of today’s Progressive movement.

  • grs

    FDL went off the deep end quick. Started somewhere early-mid 2008, right around when it was apparent Hillary wasn’t going to get the nod. TRex was good for the humor and he left. But then Christy Hardin Smith started blogging lighter and now she’s gone. Which is sad because she was such a great writer and had such great insight during the Plame/Libby hearings. Now? That sight is quickly becoming kneejerk reactionary. Too many revolving bloggers over there now. It’s not worth reading.

  • IntoxiNation

    I left FDL around the same time too after being the sites tech since the move from Blogger. It’s hard to spend countless hours improving a site when you don’t believe in what they stand for anymore.

  • Bull Schmitt

    hamsheris44.org?Bob is spot on about using whatever sway you might have with an administration judiciously.Remember the reaction President Obama had to the online forum people who were pushing the NORML line at him? I imagine Hamsher, Kos, et al are getting laughed at behind the scenes at the White House, if they’re getting talked about at all.

  • Chad Burns

    But did you read some of the comments on the FDL link? Many of the commenters feel the same we as Bob does. I think FDL has seriously damaged their credibility with this–they are an idealogue in this debate and after 8 years of an idealogue, our country needs some pragmatism.

  • roxsteady

    I posted pretty much what you’ve all said on FDL the same day Jane started calling for killing the bill. This is just plain stupid and their rational is completely out of whack. They seem to think that if the bill is killed they’ll just immediately start all over again. It’s unrealistic and irrational. Going on fox, hooking up with teabaggers and now, Norquist? They’re marginalizing themselves in the eyes of all including the Whitehouse. They’ve officially tuned them out. At least Markos is not saying they should kill the bill. What’s really sad is that during her dust up with Lanny Davis, he too said that she was taking this too far and was more concerned with her own sense of importance – or something to that affect. She’s lost all credibility.

  • http://www.osborneink.com Matt Osborne

    I think the moment Jane Hamsher jumped the couch for me was when she accused @MMonides of being a corporate stooge.

  • jjasonham

    This is all ushering in the new civic era dominated by Millennials. Completely turned off by ideology ruled politics (on the right AND left), and all for pragmatic, realistic solutions.Millennial Makeover by Winograd and Hais is the last book I read and is extremely insightful.

  • Gottverdammt Klaus

    Fortunately (so it seems) I’ve never read FDL. I’ve seen Hamsher on MSNBC and I read her little bio on Wikipedia when there was a flame war on Kos a couple months back about her paying people to post on Daily Kos. I stopped reading DKos shortly thereafter.My peripheral take is that the FDL crowd are are to liberals what Nader and his posse of assclowns were in 2000. Only worse, because rather than just messing up an election they’re collectively shitting on the most liberal government since LBJ.

  • eljefejeff

    I respect them for sticking to what they believe is right. And there was a time when I might’ve done the same. But I think health care is something many of them don’t get.When it comes to bailouts, wall street, the wars, civil liberties, I can understand their anger at Obama and the democrats. I just can’t believe this was the final straw for them. They obviously don’t understand how historic this is. I’m thinking they’re younger and they’re pissed that they now have to buy insurance.

  • MrBrink

    Bernie Sanders…?I’ve been listening to Bernie Sanders every week for months, if not a couple years, on with Thom Hartmann(Fridays Brunch With Bernie).As long as there’s an intellect like Bernie’s making its way through the body of the Senate, we’re all better for it. Now you know.If you’re calling out Bernie Sanders, with all authority vested in me– by me– I do solemnly declare that you’re a jerkoff. Your priorities are a tacklebox of boogers and poop and you should get on a plane, or a train, and take an extended vacation to Fuck Off!, genius.These wacky kids today.

  • emsique

    While the insurance industry enjoys their massive Christmas feast and abundant gifts from the Senate, we are left with a shit sandwich and used jig saw puzzle in a shoe box with pieces missing. Actually, it’s more like an IOU for these things since we don’t get them for a few years. It’s kind of better than nothing, so do we accept it and hope that next year we get a little more? A lot of people I respect think the bill is worse than nothing, but I don’t know. Time to start working on getting some Blue Dogs replaced with some real progressives. Hey, it’s Christmas eve here in China, so I’m getting drunk! Happy Holidays, y’all!

  • tikihoodoo

    I’ve seen all this before. Back in the 60′s during the Viet Nam protest era. More radical than thou contests. Ideological purity tests. And, eventually eating our own. I hate to see it again but it seems to be coming.

  • tikihoodoo

    I’ve seen all this before. Back in the 60′s during the Viet Nam protest era. More radical than thou contests. Ideological purity tests. And, eventually eating our own. I hate to see it again but it seems to be coming.