I spend a lot of time lurking in the wingnut fever swamps, but I’ve avoided the manic-prog fever swamps, so I actually needed to see for myself that people actually thought this. 

Did you watch the signing?

“This is done”

beautiful

I watched. It was powerful stuff. Hopefully, someone will YouTube the whole thing.

I actually needed to see for myself that people actually thought this.

Yeah, I haven’t seen any of the pocket veto tomfoolery. I think I’ll avoid clicking on those links and just focus on the happy. Just glad this got done and hope it leads to a lot more.

Hopefully, someone will YouTube the whole thing.

I wouldn’t be surprised if MSNBC makes the whole thing available.

Oh god. I looked. The comments, sweet jeebus, the comments.

Just…what does he have to do?  What does he have to friggin do?

What does he have to friggin do?

HE HAS TO STOP POTENTIALLY STEALING FIREBAGGERS’ RIGHTS AND GUTTING SOCIAL SECURITY AT SOME IMAGINARY POINT IN THE FAR FUTURE. HE HAS TO STOP LIVING IN JANE’S HEAD. HE HAS TO STOP DOING GOOD LIBERAL THINGS FOR NEFARIOUS PURPOSES WE CAN ONLY GUESS AT. HE HAS TO STOP STEAMROLLING REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS IN ORDER TO “GIVE THE APPEARANCE” THAT HE’S ON OUR SIDE. HE NEEDS TO STOP APPEARING TO BE SANE, REASONABLE AND PRAGMATIC IN THE FACE OF A FRACTURED DEM PARTY AND A UNIFIED CONSERVATIVE OPPOSITION.

BUT MOST OF ALL HE HAS TO APOLOGIZE FOR BEING BLACK AND BEATING HILLARY IN THE PRIMARIES!

HE. MUST. ATONE.

I’m waiting for someone to point out that he invited gays and straights to sign up for military duty and that “we’d be happy to have you” which is code for “get your ass shot because we need to feed the MIC.”  Because some people are just haters.

By the way, them gays are a mighty raucous crowd.

Same thing happened at Left Coaster. They wanted a benevolent dictator and got a president instead. The disappointment turned ‘em all nuts. I was a Hillary supporter and I had to stop going to those sites because they all went the way of the lambert. Ugh.

Fever swamp is just about right. It makes them sick that Obama signed this legislation after all their hard work supporting it. He only responds to hostage-taking. It was all about chaining themselves to the WH fence—except I doubt any firebagger ever left the Keyboard Kommand center.

I swear, didn’t some of the folks at FDL used to be fairly sane? We need to get TBogg out of there as fast as possible before he catches the virus…

I swear, didn’t some of the folks at FDL used to be fairly sane?

CHS was always the voice of reason over there, but she (sadly) has bigger issues to deal with now. Marcie was great on coverage of the Plame affair. Jane, on the other hand, has always been an idiot.

Maybe FDL lost its shit because its organizing principle was always about leading the opposition. That worked as long as Bush was president—every progressive (no scare quotes necessary) rightly opposed damn near everything Bush did. But when the Democrats took the White House again, FDL failed to adjust its business model.

There’s plenty to kvetch about under ANY administration. Obama rightly catches hell from liberals for some of his policies. But the reflexive ATTACK -> DEMONIZE -> SKREEE!! model just doesn’t work unless your opponent is pretty much 100% evil. So you get the pathetic results in that comments section. Sad.

This is another wonderful and historic day for America. We’re getting to live through and experience things that were on the furthest edges of remotely possible even five years ago.

Fuck the whiners and don’t let them ruin it for you. They’ve always been with us, they’ll always be with us and they’ll always be irrelevant. (But good for a laugh or 10.)

We need to get TBogg out of there as fast as possible before he catches the virus…

I am fairly confident, between his insnarkulations and long exposure to Fireoviridae Hyperventiladus, that his immune system will continue to repel it.

Fuck the whiners and don’t let them ruin it for you.

Haters gonna hate.  Rumpies gonna rump.

What does he have to friggin do?

Stop taking our penises!

Haters gonna hate.  Rumpies gonna rump.

Comment of the day!

Also2: This whole Joe Lieberman to the rescue (TWICE!!) thing is blowing my tiny little mind, rebuilding it and blowing it again.

I hereby publicly withdraw 85% of the mean nasty things I ever said about him and the Nutmeg State’s voters.

Though in fairness, it is awful mean of the black dude to keep reminding Jane and her fan club of their own inadequacies.

Also, I keep wondering if any of those manic-progressive nutjobs are married or otherwise in a long-term relationship. Can you imagine?

“Sure, you went to the store and got me chicken soup and cold medicine when I was sick—but it wasn’t the LOW SODIUM chicken soup and it was generic cough syrup, so clearly this means you are having an affair and putting strychnine in my food!”

I went to elementary school with a boy who was such a fussy eater that the only thing he would consume for lunch was a steamed artichoke.  So each morning his mother would steam an artichoke and pack it, and a side container of drawn butter, for his lunch.

He probably writes for FDL now.

Stop taking our penises!

I’d make a comment about the President and taking my vagina but I have too much respect for Michelle.

What if I don’t know how to rump? How do I know if I’m doin’ it right? Why are my co workers looking at me like that?

So each morning his mother would steam an artichoke and pack it, and a side container of drawn butter, for his lunch.

Good God almighty. My mom would have sought out John Wayne Gacy and handed me over.

I kid! She would have killed me herself.

I keep wondering if any of those manic-progressive nutjobs are married or otherwise in a long-term relationship.

Yes, there are plenty of people dumb enough to put up with passive-aggressive bs. So I’ve heard. [Ahem]

@Oblo: *blush* Heady praise indeed, to be coming from you.

@HTP: That’s mighty decent of you.  In my estimation, this is just Lieberman Weaseling that’s happening to break in our favor, for a change.  I’ll freakin’ take it, though.

@MikeJ:

Badasstical synergy!  MikeJ, you win all my internets for bringing that one home.

Hey Twinky, many of us consider Paul Rudd at the top of the list of Imaginary Husbands, so you’re okay.

But it does pain me to realize that Agent Scully could be a manic-gressive:

‎“What do you mean you want me to do another autopsy?! Why do I have to do it now?! I just spent hours on my feet doing an autopsy, all for you! I do it all for you, Mulder! You know I haven’t eaten since 6 o’clock this morning, and that was half a cream cheese bagel. And it wasn’t even real cream cheese, it was light cream cheese! Now you want me to run off and do another autopsy….and don’t you touch that bed.”

And by “many of us,” I mean myself and virtually every straight female friend I have—and a few of the lesbians as well!

Oh, this straight female would take him in a heartbeat, too; I was just looking for an excuse to watch the Rudd dance once again. Gotta love that rump action!

Essence of Firebagger, in its most concentrated form:

Considering that the US spends as much as the entire planet on it’s military and is presently conducting wars for resources no different than Japan or Germany which have taken more than a miliion innocent lives and maimed and refugeed several times that, is this really a victory at all ?

Snark? Sadly, I don’t think so.

But it does pain me to realize that Agent Scully could be a manic-gressive

Yes, today Obama signed legislation that will force gays and lesbians into concentration camps, where they will be subject to punishing physical regimens and deprived of privacy and control over their own daily routines, then deported to foreign lands so that our enemies can attempt to kill them.

Whoop-de-fucking-doo.

/trueprogressivebear

@Tom65:

LOL, yeah, and Z’s Firebagger troll dropped this gem earlier:

And all getting rid of DADT means is more bodies for the meat grinder in Afghanistan.

These people are good at this shit.  I have to stop and think hard to come up with stuff nearly that ridiculous, and it just flows right out of them, like crazier, more bitter little Beethovens.

LOL, Allan > Lowkey

So if DADT repeal was a hollow fucking victory from the get-go, why did the Firebaggers keep insisting that it was a litmus test of Obama’s proggie commitment?

At some point, being that willfully ignorant and hateful just becomes a hard job. There is literally NOTHING that would make these people happy. They really should just go out like the Hale-Bopp cultists.

Bravo, Allan.

‘Cos you know, gay people are just as stupid as black people, so they’ll blindly enlist just because Obama told them it’s cool.

Where can I place a bet on when they’ll start dumping on Lt. Choi?

So if DADT repeal was a hollow fucking victory from the get-go, why did the Firebaggers keep insisting that it was a litmus test of Obama’s proggie commitment?

And why are they taking credit for unleashing the Gay Person Grinder on the U.S.? Wait, I get it now!

Obama was supposed to see through their cunning plan to expose his homophobia and refuse to sign the bill into law!

They really should just go out like the Hale-Bopp cultists.

Obama did take their penises, so they just need the tracksuits and plastic bags.

Oblo, It’s the TruProg Self-Cancelling Litmus Test, where if you pass, it invalidates the test!

See, Elizabeth Warren, can’t live without, gotta have, he’ll never appoint her, Warren’s a sellout/been bought off/ rendered ineffectual/just mouths administration lines cause she has to/no regard for Warren any more

Sign that a FDL has no linear narrative consciousness: after all that, PRIMARY OBAMA WITH ELIZABETH WARREN!

The TruProg Self-Cancelling Litmus Test is from the same folks who brought you the PYUMANUT Self-Cancelling Sourcebook, an ever-changing guide to reliable sources that prove themselves unreliable by publishing facts we don’t like.

So okay, back to stuff that matters: PAUL RUDD!!

One of my colleagues in Chicago who is a film writer was dishing a couple months ago about the best and worst celebrity interviews he ever had to conduct.

Worst? Penelope Cruz.
Best? Hands down, Paul Rudd. He said that when word got around the office that Rudd was coming in for the interview, EVERYONE—male, female, straight, gay, whatever—got all blushy and giggly.

So clearly, what I’m getting at is that if the Firebaggers really want a candidate who can beat Obama, they need to draft Rudd.

So okay, back to stuff that matters: PAUL RUDD!!

I thought you had the hots for Idris Elba, or are you just one of those women?

Oblo, It’s the TruProg Self-Cancelling Litmus Test, where if you pass, it invalidates the test!

I love this place!

I love this place!

Fully seconded!  Mrs. P., you are en fuego today.

Fucking hell, now the Firebaggers are complaining that it wasn’t easy enough.

@ Tom65—I almost logged in just to say, Good morning, starshine! The earth says hello!* But then I saw you were ably handling that duty. Well done, sir.

*H/T to Oblomova for providing that serviceable stock response to incidents of gob-smacking naïveté (both genuine and feigned).

Seriously. Fuck you all. I mean it.

anybody want a peanut?

Well, Tom, you got your apology:

Jon Walker December 22nd, 2010 at 1:38 pm
8 In response to Tom65 @ 3

i’m sorry for feel that in a “democracy” something that 4 out of every 5 people support as well as the party in power should be a quick no brainer.

Are these people aliens, or what?:

I despise how Obama is a corporate-stooge-lackey. However, he can still be usefull, as long as we are never satisfied.

Never being satisfied is a great plan for electing President Bachmann, you pathetic asshole.

It’s like a snarker’s shooting gallery over there right now. I think I just won a great big pink bear.

I’m going out on a limb and guess that Mr. Walker is paler than a fish belly that’s been sitting in the sun in a bucket of bleach for five days.

But as always, I’m glad Crybaby Wussy-Pants People like the Firebag Failure Brigade weren’t in charge of the civil rights movement.

@ Strange—that’s not someone being facetious? That’s a serious comment? Jeebus, what a barrel of threadbare truck-stop joy-rags.*

*H/T: Strange. I’ve learned so many good insults here!

I thought you had the hots for Idris Elba, or are you just one of those women?

I’ve just found that the key to happy imaginary marriages is to have a large seasonal menu of imaginary husbands.

I despise how Obama is a corporate-stooge-lackey. However, he can still be usefull, as long as we are never satisfied.

Clearly this person didn’t get the “Just Fuck Off” card President Obama sent him a couple of weeks ago.

Okay, I’m not giving Lieberman much slack, like a True Progressive:

In my estimation, this is just Lieberman Weaseling that’s happening to break in our favor, for a change.

Oblo - you must be psychic, I was only thinking of that X-files scene the other day “and it wasn’t even real cream cheese it was lite cream cheese” and the sight of Mulder trying to eat a pizza on the vibrating bed had me cracking up.  Damn I miss the X-files.