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Glenn Greenwald has a brilliant post up about what the Dems and netroots are and, more importantly, aren't doing to press for an end to the Iraq war. He neatly summarizes the pragmatic points undoubtedly involved in the decisions to so far pull their punches to the extent of complete ineffectiveness. They all make sense to me, but the question he, his commentors, and I am left with is this. How many lives is the party willing to sacrifice in Iraq in order to hold onto power and possibly to win the '08 election?

Ultimately I think that is what it comes down to. To me it seems absurd that the maintaining and gaining of power should be the end result either party should be striving for and yet it does seem to have become a power for power's sake game. I don't think either party should maintain a majority for more than a few voting cycles, we've seen the results of that play out in corruptions and scandals over and over again through the years. It's healthy to have spend some time as the opposition party, it gives you perspective, makes you hungry again and minimizes complacency. Yes I'm a little less afraid of a complacent and corrupt Dem government than I am of its Republican counterpart, but neither outcome seems like a good one to me, frankly.

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It's like the special olympics of racism.

Despairing Lefty: “Jesus Christ. WTF is wrong with you?!?!”

And in response to this:

San Francisco Values
By Mark Noonan at 07:16 AM

…I propose we sell San Francisco to Hamas and Hezbollah. Seriously, wall it off and then transport as many Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists who care to come - let the good and wise people of San Francisco see what life under their heros is like.

Gentlewoman says this:

"How can they rail against our beliefs in specific one day and then blindly lump us together with those who oppose everything we believe."

If they really believed this, they would be even stupider than I think they are, which is saying a great deal.

They don’t believe it.

Right-wing blogging has become nothing more than some demented fuckwits striking various poses, trying to find the poses that will make the tricks shell out the cash.

Really, even their outrage has become rote. I mean, look at the Malkin-Thing’s latest ragegasm (tm TBogg). She was totally phoning it in. Vlogs of her reading Amanda Marcotte’s posts out loud, in the worst tradition of community theater ‘actresses’ auditioning for a William Inge play? Please.

Well, I suppose it did succeed in distracting the Malkintents (tm I can’t remember who) from the utter failure of the Great War Against Teh AP.

These folks are tired, mikey.

They’ve been screaming like banshees for six fucking years and all they ever wanted to do was enjoy the bright shiny world with no evil liberals or gays or brown people or uppity women and the booming economy and the dollar-a-gallon gas and the flowers and candy (and oil contracts) from the grateful Iraqis who are enjoying their brand spankin’ new democracy more than they can even tell!

The world they were promised.

And they didn’t get it, and looks increasingly, even to delusional morons like them, as though that world is not only never going to happen, it never could have happened, no matter how hard they clapped and cheered and lied about it and prayed for it.

So, they are tired and cross, their hands hurt from all the clapping and Tinker Belle fucking died anyway, and they really need naps, and better jobs, and some health insurance, and a chance to win elections again, and for people on mean liberal blogs to JUST STOP ALREADY pointing out that they’ve been totally played like the idiots they are, and they’re NOT GETTING ANY OF THAT EITHER.

Let’s try to empathize here, people.

Or not. Because most of them were probably scum to start with, but some of them might have been salvageable human beings, if they hadn’t thrown their lot in with the filth brigade, and then wallowed in it.

So, in my first ever (I think) Official Sadly, No! salute:

Eat it, cobagz!

Favorite comment for the day

Look, I hate to pick on another discipline's credentialing mechanisms and all, but when I read Althouse or Reynolds or Powerline I'm inclined to believe that you can get a law degree in this country by mailing $50,000 and two proof-of-purchase seals from packages of Froot Loops to General Diploma Mills, Battle Creek, Michigan.

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