no kidding -- but i suppose we need something to remind us of how intractible (4.00 / 2)

the democratic party's suck is.  wouldn't want to get too HOPEful.  

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by: seabrook @ Fri Jan 02, 2009 at 19:59:44 PM UTC

All the more reasons... (0.00 / 0)

...why we progressives need to keep active and organized. Hope to see you at DemocracyFest again this year, David! http://www.democracyfest.net

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by: Deaniac @ Fri Jan 02, 2009 at 20:07:39 PM UTC

Amazing graphic. (4.00 / 3)

Did you make it or just run a cross it?
From the Governor of Colorado, is this worse or better than you expected?

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The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies. -Chomsky

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by: HousesofProgress @ Fri Jan 02, 2009 at 20:12:46 PM UTC

Word (0.00 / 0)

Very nicely done.

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by: Josh Koenig @ Fri Jan 02, 2009 at 22:25:29 PM UTC

[ Parent ]

seriously? (4.00 / 1)

I'm also dumfounded at how fast the Democratic Party can turn "change you can believe in" into "the more things change, the more they stay the same."

Are you really surprised??  Let's face it, the best that can be said about the Dems is that they're not actively trying to create a catastrophe, like the Republicans are.

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by: midnight rambler @ Fri Jan 02, 2009 at 20:30:45 PM UTC

change you can believe in (0.00 / 0)

It is exactly the change I can believe in.  If they changed, I wouldn't believe it.  

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by: dkmich @ Fri Jan 02, 2009 at 20:41:48 PM UTC

Who is the graphic of? (0.00 / 0)

Can;t figure it out.

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by: paulhogarth @ Fri Jan 02, 2009 at 20:50:28 PM UTC

Maryland's (4.00 / 2)

state senator "Clay Davis" in The Wire.

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by: dblhelix @ Fri Jan 02, 2009 at 21:18:48 PM UTC

[ Parent ]

God, I miss The Wire (4.00 / 4)

n/t

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by: krikkit4 @ Fri Jan 02, 2009 at 20:51:57 PM UTC

If you want a more progressive alternative to Kennedy (4.00 / 1)

I think you're going to have to look for a progressive New Yorker who endorsed Obama in the primaries, preferably a woman, to push forward as some sort of compromise candidate.

Good luck with that.

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by: Anthony de Jesus @ Fri Jan 02, 2009 at 20:55:06 PM UTC

your graphic's amusingly apropos (4.00 / 1)

Obama's favorite TV show is The Wire and his favorite character is Omar.

He resembles Tommy Carcetti, the charismatic young city councilman who runs for mayor on bright promises of a new day, finds that the city is totally fucked up from years of neglect, and runs for governor without having really done much of anything for the city.

The scuzzy Clay Davis reminds me of Blagojevich, and Daniels is Al Gore--the honest man who managed to rise to the top by dint of hard work and talent but got forced out by the corrupt system for refusing to play ball.

That show's got a lot to teach us about life in America.

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by: limpidglass @ Fri Jan 02, 2009 at 21:49:25 PM UTC

Optimistic? (0.00 / 0)

Who the frack are you calling optimistic, Kemosabe?  

"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain

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by: Stoic @ Sat Jan 03, 2009 at 00:16:03 AM UTC

I'm going to have to (0.00 / 0)

quit reading you for awhile, David.  You are determined to be pissed off.  I could handle that, except your rhetoric is just over the top.  Who is writing these headlines for you?  Let me remind you that hyperbole is only one of the many, many techniques of rhetoric.  I'm tired of it.  I'm taking a vacation from you.

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by: Querent @ Sat Jan 03, 2009 at 02:21:15 AM UTC

And I'm going to have to (4.00 / 2)

keep looking forward to your delightfully and correctly grumpy posts, David. I don't understand why so many of these huffy nerds have a problem with your "over the top" rhetoric. Maybe it seems alien to our woefully lost generation because yours is the kind of actually fucking good writing that is aggressively weeded out of our arts and politics through a complex system of corporate patronage.

Down with the cool, toothless academic style, up with polemic! Our world is under attack from mad, unscrupulous pirates bent on destroying our civilization, our culture and our lives. They are being sadly aided by a co-dependent, milquetoast ship of fools in the loyal opposition who don't fight them hard enough.

In the great tradition of funny, incisive, culturally necessary curmudgeons like Bill Hicks, Hunter S. Thompson and Mark Twain, you are a well-functioning barometer of our political climate. You have many fans. Keep it up.

"At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed." -- Frederick Douglass

http://www.funnyordie.com/jame...

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by: mildewmaximilian @ Sat Jan 03, 2009 at 03:53:36 AM UTC

Kennedy is a big blow to the Clintonettes - YAY! (0.00 / 0)

But as to Obama's cabinet, I say 'Hope' turned into "Oh F!@#"!

Nationalism is not the same thing as terrorism, and an adversary is not the same thing as an enemy.

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by: worldlymother @ Sat Jan 03, 2009 at 04:08:53 AM UTC