...and Digby as Ranty Dwarf
Jul. 6th, 2005 12:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I do think both of my critics have a fair complaint about me, though. I am, in fact, a crazed fringe leftist, freaking out liberal. In fact, I am dangerous. And I was hotheaded when I wrote that post, mostly because it was all too predictable that we would get had in that deal once the Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse got confirmed --- which set the bar for "extraordinary circumstances." Professior Bainbridge sees the deal as a good one for the Republicans and indeed it was.
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What Patterico fails to understand is that I want that nuclear option, I need that nuclear option. I'm fucking dying to have that fight. We so-called freaking out liberals have been pushed to the wall. We're accused of being traitors at every turn, of wanting to give terrorists therapy, of being unamerican. People are making millions selling books saying that everything I believe in is treason. There are pick-ups all over the country that have "liberal hunting licence" bumper stickers on them. Being called a "fringe leftist" these days is actually kind of cute. How about terrorist sympathizer? Now there's a descriptive insult with some meat on it!
I am the last person who is afraid of Bill Frist going nuclear. Like a cornered animal, I've got nothing to lose. In fact, it's my fondest wish. If we could score a knock-out on Bush we might actually open some eyes in this country. And even if we don't, so what? When you go out of your way to rub your rivals noses in the dirt,particularly when they comprise an army as big as yours, don't be surprised when they start to see mutually assured destruction as an alternative.
I do think both of my critics have a fair complaint about me, though. I am, in fact, a crazed fringe leftist, freaking out liberal. In fact, I am dangerous. And I was hotheaded when I wrote that post, mostly because it was all too predictable that we would get had in that deal once the Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse got confirmed --- which set the bar for "extraordinary circumstances." Professior Bainbridge sees the deal as a good one for the Republicans and indeed it was.
[...]
What Patterico fails to understand is that I want that nuclear option, I need that nuclear option. I'm fucking dying to have that fight. We so-called freaking out liberals have been pushed to the wall. We're accused of being traitors at every turn, of wanting to give terrorists therapy, of being unamerican. People are making millions selling books saying that everything I believe in is treason. There are pick-ups all over the country that have "liberal hunting licence" bumper stickers on them. Being called a "fringe leftist" these days is actually kind of cute. How about terrorist sympathizer? Now there's a descriptive insult with some meat on it!
I am the last person who is afraid of Bill Frist going nuclear. Like a cornered animal, I've got nothing to lose. In fact, it's my fondest wish. If we could score a knock-out on Bush we might actually open some eyes in this country. And even if we don't, so what? When you go out of your way to rub your rivals noses in the dirt,particularly when they comprise an army as big as yours, don't be surprised when they start to see mutually assured destruction as an alternative.
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Date: 2005-07-07 04:33 am (UTC)If someone doesn't like what you have to say they don't have to read it. You could remind them that we live in a (crumbling) democracy where you still have freedom of speech, (for a while.)
You could also say that you are merely pointing out the facts when it comes to the sleazy bunch of greedy and hateful fuckheads who are running this country into the ground.
Or settle for the short version: "I'll say whatever I want you ignorant fuck!"