Bu…bu…but—I heard that Timmeh Geithner was against her and so Obummer was gonna throw her under the bus! How could an unsourced HuffPo piece possibly be wrong?

Good news.

I wonder if Jon Stewart will finally get to make out with her?

Fuck Obama. He should have nominated her in 2008!

What is his goddamned Woman Problem? I mean, he nominates and seats women all the time, but—fuck—there’s just something weirdly African about him. I think he thinks women are food.

Yes, Obummo’s record has made it very plain what a virulent male chauvinist and sexist he is.  How dare he continue to try and pretend he’s not by nominating women to cabinet positions and as Supreme Court justices.  I only hope this ridiculous rumor is true so we can once again feel betrayed by him.

I think he thinks women are food.

Oh dear god I think I broke several somethings laughing at this.

Well, I’m thrilled. But I don’t really get all the back and forth accusations of bad faith—either those attacking Obama/Geithner or those attacking Warren’s various supporters.  Administrations frequently leak information as trial balloons and Obama’s famously secretive and disciplined campaign has been leaking like a sieve pretty constantly (whether on purpose or not) since he got into power.  Moreover the party line, per Gibbs and other named and unnamed spokesmen, has been very consistently anti-left/liberal. Not anti left as in anti communist but anti activist.  I didn’t bother to get excited about Warren one way or the other because I was sure that either she’d get nominated (good idea) and have a hard time getting confirmed or she’d not be nominated and they’d nominate someone not as good who they thought, erroneously, could get confirmed easily.  At which point we’d see a prolonged battle for a second rater, or a compromise candidate, who the administration would fail to get confirmed and then fail to recess appoint.

I don’t think that because I’m an hysteric, or I’m anti Obama. I think that because that’s been the modus operandi.  I hope that by going with Warren they are choosing to have the public fight over consumer interests.  That’ a fight I think they should have—just like all confirmation fights should be public.  WE have the better policies, and the better people. If the Republicans want to thwart those policies and people they should have to do it publicly in a long drawn out and agonizing way.  Allowing them to do things secretely is doing there work for them.

aimai

We did it! We said Warren should be nominated and Obama listened to us! ROAR!!!

/NAG

Moreover the party line, per Gibbs and other named and unnamed spokesmen, has been very consistently anti-left/liberal.

I’d say it’s been pretty consistently against a very narrow segment of the blogging “left/liberal” set who early on, despite having never won any decisive battles against the right wing themselves (remember, Move On started out of “censure and move on” during the Lewinsky affair—and remind me how well that worked out?) declared that they were “the base,” they had the failsafe answers, and thus they demanded that Obama do what they say posthaste, or they’d take their votes and go home. (Up to and including prattle about how Obama choosing Elena Kagan over Diane Wood was the last straw and proof that “we need to primary him from the left.” Which is something I saw—a lot—from people who claimed to be “progressives” on the internet.)

Honestly, I’ve lost track of all the pants-wetting online freakouts instigated by “OMG did you see that Rahm/Unnamed White House Source said something that hurt our fee-fees and therefore he is as bad as Bush?” So, inartful as Gibbs’ comments might have been, he was pretty on the nose as far as the largely white blogging commentariat NOT being representative of “the left” or “liberals” or “progressives” or “Democrats.”

The phrase “circular firing squad” is being used a lot again ... That makes a generous assumption that we’re all on the same side of something.

The denizens of the progressive blogosphere often make me more angry than centrists and conservatives to whom I am supposedly ideologically opposed.

Is it still a “circular” firing squad when I want to systematically pick most of these motherfuckers off the web for mangling positions I believe in? Because on an obvious level, I clearly don’t share their most prominent values.

And honestly, I will be thrilled if Warren is nominated, I think she deserves it, and I think that yes, the GOP should have to come out in public and try to oppose her. What I find ludicrous is the notion that she is the ONLY POSSIBLE CHOICE!!!! (which, given the fragility of mortality, better not be the case—not that I think the fine Ms. Warren is in any danger of shuffling off this mortal coil anytime soon), and that choosing anyone else would be, as aimai puts it, proof of bad faith.

I got emails from at least four or five different “progressive” sites within hours of the original HuffPo “Geithner hates Warren” unsourced item. Not ONE of these sites had ever alerted me to a townhall on healthcare in my area where I could go and make my voice heard—in person—on the public option, or on phone banking opportunities for progressive candidates in my area, or on anything else that would be in support of a more progressive agenda. For most of that, I rely on OFA and people I met working with OFA during the election.

Oh, but Obama totally dismantled his “grassroots operation” after the election in order to take power away from the “base.” (Or so I’m told by some committed members of the leftie commentariat.) So I guess all those people I know who are phone banking and registering new voters through OFA are just hallucinating.

I think it’s great that people are agitating for Warren—I’ve done so myself via messages to Senators, signing petitions, etc.

I also don’t think it’s in any way hysterical to suspect the Obama administration might prefer a less in-your-face nominee. (After all, they’re a good bit more centrist and less eager to confront the GOP shitheads than I am. This isn’t news to me, but it appears to have surprised many folks.) And it’s true the admin has tried to split the difference and act in good faith with bad actors.

But there was genuine hysteria about the Warren nomination, and that’s what we’re mocking (or at least, that’s what I’m mocking). I mean stuff like freak-outs because Warren hadn’t been nominated within a week of the signing of the FinReg bill. And dumb speculation that Obama wouldn’t nominate Warren because she’s a woman. That sort of thing.

I’m pleased at the news about Warren. 

And Gibbs could use a vacation somewhere without Internet access.

Right on, Betty. And the larger point I was trying (and probably failing) to make is that some narrow segments of the online-leftie set have become so reactive to the 24-hour news cycle that they have lost sight of bigger-picture long-range planning and strategy. So every nomination takes on this magnified importance.

I agree with aimai; the course was so predictable, there was no way I was going to invest emotionally in the nomination, especially since someone was bound to be disappointed.

I’d love Warren to get the nod, not because I know so much about economics, or even her positions other than what I’ve seen her say in interviews. She’s done Daily Show and I like her because she seems genuine and is demonstrably sharp. Hope she gets the job, but I expect a dull, prolonged battle from the usual suspects anyhoo. Can’t figure out why every nomination, every bill, every single thing Obama didn’t do turns into the last “last straw.” Got old a long time ago. And I can’t say that if I were Gibbs, watching the silliness on the lefty intertoobs, I wouldn’t say something insulting about the blogs every once in a while just to watch the freakin’ predictable squealing. I’m evil that way.

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I believe we just got a heads-up on what was covering the foot that Gibbs put in his mouth. ;)

Does this mean the keyboard liberal activists can finally start paying attention to more unimportant things, like who is sitting on the FOMC?