Much as I hate short diaries that only reference someone else's work, they are permitted under the New Dispensation known as DK4 and I am not seeing any reference to it this morning, so here goes.
James Carville, he of the Republican wife and the Clinton mind-meld (and, for those whose indictment spans national borders, the campaign guru of Bolivian neoliberal villain Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada twnty years ago), has officially joined us on the pissed-off side of the party.
http://www.cnn.com/...
Read it all (jeesh, it's a CNN opinion piece, how long should that take you?), but I've stitched together his four prescriptions:
1. Fire somebody. No -- fire a lot of people. This may be news to you but this is not going well. For precedent, see Russian Army 64th division at Stalingrad. There were enough deaths at Stalingrad to make the entire tea party collectively orgasm.
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2. Indict people. There are certain people in American finance who haven't been held responsible for utterly ruining the economic fabric of our country. Demand from the attorney general a clear status of the state of investigation concerning these extraordinary injustices imposed upon the American people. I know Attorney General Eric Holder is a close friend of yours, but if his explanations aren't good, fire him too. Demand answers to why no one has been indicted.
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3. Make a case like a Democrat. While we are going along with the Republican austerity garbage, who is making the case against it? It's not the Democrats!
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4. Hold fast to an explanation. Stick to your rationale for what has happened and what is going to happen under your leadership. You must carry this through until the election (never say that things are improving because evidently they are not).
Look, Carville is the anti-Obama by temperament, so it's not unexpected that he would sooner or later go off about his political skills. What's striking here is the programmatic radicalism: he's an indicter! Of course, to Carville program is subordinate to politics so it's not like he would really fit in with the indicters of Kosville, but it's still striking. You could extend that to the whole economic issue: it's not like Carville has discovered that he's really an economic populist. He's just reaffirmed that he's a political winner, and he sees that winning is put in serious jeopardy with the resolute antipopulism that Obama has embraced.
There's more to say, but you can say it at least as well as I can, and that's why we have comments.