Is it just me, or is the calculation of COLA being derived by the Chained Consumer Price Index, or the proposal to do that, being received with the same tenor as Bush’s proposal to pre-emptively invade other countries?

I THINK WE SHOULD BE ABSOLUTELY PANICKED OVER THE BUDGET THING THAT HASN’T HAPPENED YET, AND TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPECULATE WILDLY ABOUT HOW MANY DIFFERENT WAYS OBAMA WILL SELL US OUT, BASED ON LEAKED TRIAL BALLOONS, BLOG STATIC AND THE PRIOR SPECULATIONS OF OTHER PEOPLE WHO GET PAID TO SPECULATE.

I WANT ACCUSATIONS, RECRIMINATIONS AND THE OUTRAGED READING OF ENTRAILS. ALSO, THERE SHOULD BE AN ONLINE PETITION ABOUT SOMETHING, IMMEDIATELY.

Yes, I loves me some Adam Green and his “Bold Progressives”.  I guess if whining louder than yer next “progressive” is “bold” then goody for them.

I responded to the Outrage.  Obama. email thusly:

The WH has denied this.  Stop your screeching and if you can’t, remove me from your mailing list.

As I’m already on my way to be permanently labelled “Obot” (or in Joan Walsh’s hoity-toity context, “Obamalover”, I figgered it couldn’t hurt.

Hell, just last night on Twitter I was was told by his pearl-clutchiness, David Sirota, to go fuck myself.  But the squirrely little coward deleted it.  I still have the email though.

Its getting rough out there.

Sirota’s another gelatinous piece of “progressive” shit who thinks his Tweets are “clever” and “oceanic.”

I think I’ll go CGI his head-shot into a fisting video, and enter it in the Houston Festival. I Won a Gold Hugo there once, and I can do it again.

Well, to be fair, we really should listen more closely to the Professional Left because they have such a strong track record of winning elections and passing legislation.

I have been thinking about becoming a certain kind of blogger and I’m trying to make sure I get the formula correct and make sure I’m not missing any steps. So, in a case like this, is this how it goes?

On the one hand, I do think Obama has been a less-than-stalwart champion of my values.

On the other hand, idf he’s the Manchurian Republican, why the fuck is there still an impasse?  Why doesn’t he just rubber-stamp whatever the crazies come up with and go play golf?  In fact, why even run for reelection next year—or, rather, why try to run effectively?  Just throw the election to the GOP deliberately.  That’s what a real Judas goat would do in this situation, no?

Self-correction: Sirota isn’t really a progressive. He’s some sort of centrist, equal-opportunity whiner who hates all government and supports people like the New Progressive Alliance because he thinks we should be ruled by enlightened flakes who seize power by refusing to accept corporate funding, or something.

He seems to be more interested in being David Sirota than anything else. A bland, abusive young man.

There just isn’t any point in going into everything Obama has managed to accomplish in 2-1/2 years nor the way he’s taken the Republicans’ pants down in past budget/spending deals.  I’ll just mention that he is, you know, still black.

Budget cutting’s a bitch.  Every single thing in the budget is something somebody wants.  So it boils down to who are you willing to piss off?

I’d be tempted to choose those who annoy me most.  But that’s just me.

Oddly, I prefer the hysteria to the doom-n-gloomery that’s taken over e.g. Balloon Juice these days:

Where do they find those people?

They expect government to turn Hard Left the way Palin supporters expect her movie trailer to “go viral.”

If this guy’s ready to give up without even trying and stupidly failing to shoot himself in the head, he hasn’t suffered enough and he gets no pity from me.

On the other hand, idf he’s the Manchurian Republican, why the fuck is there still an impasse?  Why doesn’t he just rubber-stamp whatever the crazies come up with and go play golf?  In fact, why even run for reelection next year—or, rather, why try to run effectively?  Just throw the election to the GOP deliberately.  That’s what a real Judas goat would do in this situation, no?

Great questions, Steve. I had similar questions for lefties during the ACA debates. Apparently pointing out to the kill-the-bill folks that if the healthcare reform legislation was indeed a gigantic sloppy blowjob to the insurance industry, it was a blowjob that they were fending off with wads (sorry, low-hanging, um, fruit) of cash and attack ads. Which seemed counter-intuitive to me, but then I lack the particular brand of acumen that gets liberals elected by putting their opponents in blackface.

“This country doesn’t just not want me, it fucking wants me and the other hippies dead it seems like.”

DIE HIPPIE, DIE!

(But first sign our petition and make a donation to our Bold Progressive ‘action fund’. Then die.)

Stop your screeching and if you can’t, remove me from your mailing list.

Gimme, since they object to “professional left,” perhaps we could go with “Screech Owls of Doom!” as a new moniker for the Poutrage Posse.

The overly ernest manic progressives are all sure, just sure, that if they could get people to see their ads and read their position papers (with graphs and charts!) that people would vote progressive en mass.  I’m officially old enough to no longer be that niave. 

Sure, it would be great to live in a sepia-toned world of heroic labor organizers and victories against The Man, but that’s just as realistic now as it was then.  After getting a facefull of a super-lefty friend who wants to get Palin elected so things would finally become shitty enough to force a Twue Progressive Revolution, I turned in my young/ideolistic/moron card.  Granted, that first item was well on it’s way out the door anyway…

After getting a facefull of a super-lefty friend who wants to get Palin elected so things would finally become shitty enough to force a Twue Progressive Revolution, I turned in my young/ideolistic/moron card.

Indeed. And it’s always the people who stand to lose the least that smugly advocate this sort of thing, like the over-fifties who say all we have to do to end war is bring back the draft.

...I think I heard you right. I can barely hear you over all the sobbing and garment-ripping noises from Stage Left.

I turned in my Purity Platinum Card when I realized that, as one of the morons in Florida who cast a vote for Nader in 2000 because there wasn’t “a dime’s worth of difference between Bush and Gore,” I had enabled the election of Shrubya and the catastrophic consequences that quickly followed. I guess I’m a quick learner—I only have to ruin a country ONCE to learn MY lesson…

Betty, I’m much more inclined to blame the tens of millions of people who sat out the 2000 elections than the Nader voters.

But the real blame lies with the dumbasses who voted for Bush.

Didn’t we just go through this shit with the death of DADT?
Perhaps I’m thinking of the PPACA poutothon.
Or was the election the time Obama did EVERYTHING WRONG because he WANTED TO LOOSE!?!
Or maybe I’m thinking aaaaaalll the way back to my college days when gangs of gloomy, unwashed trustafarians roamed the campus rebuking people who didn’t look suitably horrified/enraged/downcast by the AIDS crisis and/or Apartheid.
Hard to keep track when the screams from the last bout of fauxrage are still echoing in my skull. But since ear plugs don’t keep the noise out, it may be time to invest in ball gags to keep it in.

But since ear plugs don’t keep the noise out, it may be time to invest in ball gags to keep it in.

Worth a try, but it may take a different kind of, ah, plug to contain it.

“After getting a facefull of a super-lefty friend who wants to get Palin elected so things would finally become shitty enough to force a Twue Progressive Revolution, I turned in my young/ideolistic/moron card.”

The super lefties said the same thing about voting for Nader. The election of Bush was going to bring a Progressive Revolution.

How’d that work out?

I have reached peak I-wanna-strangle-the-manic-progressives-until-I-can-see-the- white-of-their-eyes.  I can’t go full-emo every time ‘a Democratic insider’ is quoted in the papers as saying Obama is going to kill America.  I’ll wait until he actually does it, thankyewverymuch.

the manic progressive professional left has transformed itself into a doomsday cult.

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I almost want to set up a DailyKos account just so I can make Oblomova at 10:41 my sig.

But I should probably do something more worthwhile, like read My Little Pony fanfiction.

I remember all those superior people who were all over the net just after Fukushima, saying there was no meltdown, it just wasn’t possible.

As far as I can tell they all committed seppuku, cuz since then not a one of them has popped up to admit they were wrong three times over.

I hope you folks are right, and that not only is this mere fearmongering, but that these people and their public worries have no place in a democracy and can’t possibly have any effect on the course of events, so they are worthy of being mocked like any DFH who suggested invading Iraq was the wrong thing to do. Cuz it certainly would be awful if you-all turned out to be full of Dan Savage’s ass-froth.

@JC—You should try breathing into a paper bag. It helps to quell the sense of nausea, which is actually the cause of the anxiety, not the other way around. Once you settle your stomach, the Fear evaporates almost instantly.

@ Strange, to paraphrase someone else here (maybe you?), if JC were a dog, he/she would be one of fhose pathetic curs who chews all the hair off his/her ass. It doesn’t do a damn bit of good, lord knows. But it seems to make him/her feel better to lick his/her mottled little rattail, so who are we to judge?

Thanks, Betty. That was originally formulated to describe Lambchop, but it has become much more widely applicable than I ever dreamed.

Boehner folds.

Ha! Though he does so, of course, in the most fingerpointy, petulant way possible.

@JC — PS: Don’t bring your mewling Fukushima grief here, Junior. In fact, you should probably keep it to yourself, since I don’t remember anybody, anywhere who thought TEPCO was telling the truth or who claimed a meltdown was impossible.

There were, however, a shitload of people on the ‘Net who don’t know dick about nuclear plant engineering who were rooting for the reactors to fail, because the only thing holding back massive worldwide implementation of Wind Turbines and Solar Cells is the general absence of radiation victims and 10,000-Year Dead Zones, apparently.

Those ghouls owe God an apology.