Watching the Senate grapple, not with health care but the efforts by the administration to convince progressives that something is always better than nothing, has been discouraging. David Axelrod, Bill Clinton, and the DLC instruct Bernie Sanders, Jay Rockefeller and Tom Harkin to act like the good kid--swallow your Castor [...]
After reading this compilation by Thomas Schaller of various leading 'progressives' views on whether the Senate bill should be killed or not, I am beyond disgusted at many of the putrid, spineless, stupid quislings who call themselves progressives. [...]
Number of comments: 2 Just received my daily Smirking Chimp e-mail and the reviews are not good for President Obama's announced escalation. And I wonder if the Afghans were consulted. A sample:
Number of comments: 0 James Vega has a piece in the Democratic Strategist arguing in essence: If there is an escalation in Afghanistan—progressives, peace-minded folk and those just plain not wanting to see our troops kill and be killed should all be happy because President Obama has performed as though we do not [...]