I’ve just about had it up to here with

1 Tip of a Flat Belly :
Cut down 3 lbs of your belly every week by using this 1 weird tip.

1. “Of”? “Of”??!!
2. How can a Flat Belly have a tip?
3. Does it involve a self-administered scalpel?
4. What happens when you run out of belly?

And now I’ll be stuck with the ruddy ad for ever. Gah.

Im just happy Coakley lost. I want that health insurance lobby funded bill to die in the Senate. Fuck filibuster proof majority. No thanks to Obama for selling us out on Health care, finance reform and war with Iran.

Yikes, Bimbo—you’ve got the emopants rap down cold. And “filibuster proof majority” is just precious. 

I’d be tempted to add “...and it’ll teach the Dems a lesson,” but that would be gilding the lily.

If these people can actually feel “sold out” by a politician, you can just imagine how disappointed they must be with “Relaxed Fit” jeans.

If these people can actually feel “sold out” by a politician, you can just imagine how disappointed they must be with “Relaxed Fit” jeans.

Heh!

So Bimbo, what’s the glorious Purity Pony Progressive Plan for getting a better healthcare reform passed if this one goes down? I mean, you’ve all thought this through really carefully and come up with something, right? This isn’t just the usual childish tantrum from the Progressive Pissy Pants crowd, right? You all DO have an effective and fail-safe strategy mapped out for getting MORE progressive healthcare reform legislation passed with a weakened Congress and a media circling for blood, right?

Or are you just a clueless idiot who hears “corporation,” decides they’re all “evil,” and goes ballistic on the “punish them all!” bandwagon, and fuck those poor people who would get Medicaid and access to public health clinics under this plan?

I’m still trying to figure out if bimbo slice was doing a caricature of the Naderdoglake crowd, or was trolling.

Anyway. I see this map relating Clinton and Brown support in MA is making the rounds.  Kind of interesting.

What do you make of it?

What do you make of it?

I don’t know if the word “townie” translates to other parts of the country. It doesn’t to DC, for instance. Basically, hard-working white people. The townie parts of MA went for Brown and Clinton. Boston/Cambridge and the area around U Mass Amherst went for Coakley/Obama. I’d consider this part of the state to be even more liberal than Cambridge. The Boston Underground Film Fest used to go to Northampton just for this environment.

The North Shore (lots of money) also went Brown/Clinton.

Let’s face it, following a Kennedy was going to be an uphill battle for anyone. It didn’t help that Coakley had the personality of a wet paper towel, or that the state party assumed this was going to be a cakewalk.

I agree, Tom. Particularly in tough times when people are feeling pissed off already, having someone just sit on their ass (and a 30-point lead) and not get out and WORK for the vote (yes, Martha, that DOES mean shaking hands outside Fenway in the cold) was bound to leave a bad taste in the mouth of the electorate. I think the comparison between Hillary as a Senate candidate and a presidential candidate is pretty apt.

No thanks to Obama for selling us out on Health care, finance reform and war with Iran.

Just noticed this little genius nugget. Guys, did you know we’re at war with Iran now? Bimbo sez, so it must be true!

I think Bimbo was just funnin’, unless that “buyer’s remorse” thing is affecting even the old stalwart Bush-fighters.

I hope so, Strange.

Insurance stocks may be up, but the rest of the market is down.  Why don’t traders believe that the companies that pay insurance premiums will be hurt by the defeat of the health-care reform bill?

I was actually thinking last night that Coakley and Clinton actually ran very similar campaigns; inevitability train coupled with generational “it’s our turn” boomer privilege.

Then this morning I got an email from a PUMA telling me I had helped to “create this.” 

I love that gmail auto-delete filter.

Then this morning I got an email from a PUMA telling me I had helped to “create this.”

Christ in a kiddie pool, Blue Gal! I haven’t paid much attention to the HellNo kittehs of late—too much crazy on the nominally sane side to distract me, I guess.

I figured they would a) chalk it up to sexism, or b) rejoice in Coakley’s defeat since it harms Obama. Little did I know YOU were to blame.

glad you have all found solidarity in beating up. And blame Coakley all you want for her losing MA, but the fact remains that she lost and that’s because progressives are disillusioned by Obama’s abandoning the public option. and yeah Obama is gunning for war with Iran. if you think he isnt having the CIA intefere in Iran so that he can get a candidate favorable to America, then yo are the one who is an idiot. but thats interference and thats why the world hates us.

Wow, Bimbo—what happened? You didn’t used to be a dick.

No thanks to Obama for selling us out on Health care, finance reform and war with Iran.

Say what?  So bimbo are you fer war with Iran or agin it?  Hard to tell from your rants.

This is not the first erruption bimbo has had here. 

And has anyone else noticed the apparent boycott of capitalization by commenters of that his/her ilk?  This cultish devotion to the lower case has spread to every blog I’ve read so it’s either a case of rampant sock puppetry or a conspiracy we can’t understand.  By the time we figure out its ends I fear it will be too late to thwart them.

Blue Gal - you too?  I wrote a short article at Bad Fiction making exactly that point - that Clinton and Coakley ran very simular campaigns.

Coakley made the exact same mistake Hillary Clinton did. She went into the race thinking it was a done deal, that she was the inevitable winner, and went on cruse control the entire race. Her entire campaign was tainted by this thought, that they didn’t have to work for the win. Even down to allowing her opponent to define her rather than challenging that definition.

And like Hillary Clinton, by the time Coakley realized she had a fight on her hands, it was too late. Even at the end, when the polls saw her tanking, it seems like Coakley figured “the internal polls say otherwise” and put up a token fight at best

I read that she didn’t do any internal polling.

@Lawnguylander—A lot of people who once seemed like they had their shit together are suddenly morphing into pants-pooping mush-brains like bimbo.

As for lower-case nicks, I assume it’s an identity thing. I mean, how much self-respect can you possibly have if feel no shame declaring you’ve beem “sold out” by a politician?

Strange, I seem to be full of David Sedaris references this week, so forgive me, but your “sold out” observation reminded me of Sedaris talking about how amused he was by people who were SHOCKED!!!! that James Frey fabricated big chunks of A Million Little Pieces: “Oh my god! I can’t believe that raging drunk lied to me!!!