I blame this on Blanche Fucking Lincoln, Blue Dogs and the other corporate financed and conservative shills in our party.
After working my ass off for the last months to save Democrats from themselves, I have to get this off my chest.
We are the party of Phucking idiots, running against the party of phucking sociopaths. The people who thought torture was great and nothing went wrong under Bush makes up only 1 out of every 4 Americans, but they are a voting bloc and a majority if the other half of America simply does not vote, and you can't inspire people with Republican frames. This was NOT an Obama election, but we just witnessed the Audacity of Meh, as voters were uninspired just as much as they were angry. At what point do Democrats learn, you don't win friends with salad.
Those who stand for nothing will fall to Rightwing talking points.
More below the fold if you are ready to vent
Crossposted at The Progressive Electorate.com
What does the Democratic party and the Republican party have in common with the Harlem Globetrotters and the Washington Generals? They are both owned by the same people to put on a great show for us.
You know what is fucking stupid? Running against the most popular politician in America, President Barack Obama, when you are in the same party he is in! If I were writing a book called "How to alienate my political base and infuriate voters by being utterly indistinguishable from my Republican opponent who thinks I'm a socialist gay mexican coddling nazi", I'd say this is chapter one.
We just lost to the people who elected the Nazi re-enactor guy as their candidate. Instead of forcing Republicans to play defense on their recent votes against ending job outsourcing, an issue that is WIN with Americans, we ran away from health care. Instead of forcing the GOP to play defense on voting against health care FOR 9/11 EMERGENCY RESPONDERS of all things Democratic politicians from more rural areas tried to run AGAINST Washington while they were in control of it. Fucking idiots. Dems revealed that they are the Jets versus the Packers on offense. Shutout. Clueless. Incapable of going on attack.
I don't blame Progressives or Hippies. I blame corrupt, bribed politicians who run as Democrats, third way rejects of the Harold Ford school like Tom Daschle that sound EXACTLY like Republicans. When you use the same talking points, it's like I can see your penis. It's gross, and it makes my stomach bubble. The sellouts, the Blanche Lincoln's. This is very much Blanche Lincoln's fault, and why the Dems ever misspent precious resources on that Republican lite shill I'll never guess, but Blanche Lincoln and her fellow Blue Dog cronies just got their asses booted out of power, and it wasn't because they were "too liberal"
At least 1/3 to 1/2 of our loses in the House yesterday had absolutely nothing to do with the Democrat in that district being "too liberal". Blue Dogs aren't more liberal than that Mad Dog teabagger counterparts, they just don't bark and slobber and roll over for their Koch Industries masters the way the mad dog teabaggers do. Even at being pathetic, corporate owned lap dogs the Blue Dog caucus is an EPIC FAIL compared to the mad dog teaparty lap dogs the Koch Brothers have culminated for themselves.
And like fucking idiots, Democrats invested heavily in failed Blue Dog candidates who Democratic base voters would NOT come out for this Tuesday. How'd that bipartisanshipy thing work out for you there? Will you ever learn, Democratic politicians, because even the kabuki has gotten less valuable since the Wall Street crash began UNDER BUSH.
Imagine every NFL team firing their coach at this half way point of the season because they didn't win the championship yet. That is what the American people just did last night. After 8 seasons of Bush Junior, who is now "HE THAT SHALL NOT BE NAMED" in the press, everything is now the new coach Obama's fault, and if team America's economy doesn't improve soon the mistakes of the last decade of fiscal policy (2000-2008 President HE THAT SHALL NOT BE NAMED, 2008-Present President Barack Obama) will all be the new guys fault. Why? Because Americans have a 15 minute short term memory but can remember ANY rightwing meme if it is pounded into their heads for 6 months straight.
Republicans basically wrecked this whole fucking decade, first under Bush, then while hindering Democrats under Obama, and Democrats couldn't even sell THAT to the American public, because they were too busy selling themselves to the special interests and big donors who own them too.
When Dems fail to challenge on tax cuts for the rich before an election I know the kabuki is on. This is an easily winnable, very populist issue for Dems because most of us are simply NOT RICH! Plus, tax cuts CREATE DEFICITS! You can't subtract something and end up with an equal amount or more of what you subtracted. Fucking idiots. Yet as idiotic as Republicans are, they have something up on idiocy, and that is malevolence. Republicans hate you for your freedom to be gay, or muslim, or mexican, or "other", but whatever it is, Republicans have a lot of head stomping hate in em, oh I forgot women who don't agree with them, and taxes. Basically, Republicans like cheap dates and free lunches. No one has to pay taxes for anything, and somehow we will cut everything and it will still work, so lets give the rich and corporations their tax cuts now, or I will call you a socialist. These are the people we are fucking losing to?
At the end of the day, voices who fought back against the banks, the foreclosure scandal, the health insurers, the military contractors, fighters like Alan Grayson and Russ Feingold and others lost along side a load of shitty Blue Dogs, and why? Because a bunch of democrats who were trying to do the right thing got thrown out with a bunch more who were sooo corrupt or so indistinguishable from their still massively unpopular Republican opponent that voters blamed them because that is how Republicans and the media framed it in a year when crappy Conservative Democrats fought for less and ended up getting less for it, and instead of blaming the failed ideology of this neo-conservative hoovernomics, where the government does nothing while banks and insurers and mortgage companies rob you blind, where polluters are never responsible for their actions and free markets reign over poor consumers like a head stomping boot. Fucking idiots. Republicans fall for this because they are fucking idiots with a teaspoon of sadism, and Democrats fall TO this because they are owned by the same special interests that own the GOP outright, and Dems can NEVER give you anything that the special interests who own them don't want you to have. The special interests who own most Democrats have them caught in a perpetual losers kabuki, trying to appeal to voters but NEVER fully delivering, no marriage equality, no end of DADT, no labor laws or spending on education or green, no immigration laws, it is all like the Right's pledge to end Roe v Wade, they string us along, but when they have all the power they do nothing, or else how could they still string you along . . .
Capable of nothing their special interest owners do not want, most Democratic politicians are FUCKING IDIOTS. President Obama is still capable of inspiring people. Thank the Gods for that, because without him, the corporatist dominated party that is full of corrupt idiots would be certain to get creamed by the wholly owned corporate insane asylum of torture supporting head stomping war mongerers. It's the party of fucking idiots versus the party fucking sociopaths. Sad. I fear that if anything positive happens in the next two years President Obama is going to have to do it by himself, because the corporations and the rich who can spend unlimited fortunes on political speech just won a big one, and any politician who might challenge their power like Alan Grayson is on notice that if they speak truth to power, power will crush them in a sea of lying, negative ads. We need a MESSAGE, and I believe Barack Obama is the only man in America capable of speaking to the American public in a way that can persuade them. His mission, to make the case for the left and the Democratic party what our goals are on the economy, on international affairs and other matters, why our ideas our better and why you should vote for us over the people who crashed the economic car in the first place in 2008 that keep calling him a Kenyan born socialist who is a weak on terror Hitleresque tyrant. If Obama can do all that and sell it while carrying this sure to be shitty next congress on his back, he might just be able to save Democrats and America from themselves. I hope he can, because I have absolutely no hope at all in the hapless Democratic politicians who are certain to roll over and play dead to their respected colleagues, the new Senator from Koch Industries and Blankenship energy who wants to introduce his amendment to repeal the 22nd Amendment of the constitution.
We need a better message. We need an offense, Democrats can not be the Kang to the GOP's teaparty Kodos. We need something to offer America, an idea, a message. You don't win friends with salad, or gazpacho, or whatever. Where's the beef? If Dems have "at least I'm not him" as their pitch. they lose. My advice? Stick with Obama this time, you fucking idiots, because he is obviously the only hope we've got.
And leave the Gazpacho at home.
Because I don't want to vote for Milhouse over Nelson Muntz, and neither do most Fox viewers either.
Peace and LOVE to all
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