As it happens, Huckabee made his remarks shortly after he derided Democrats for using Kennedy's death to make the pitch that "Congress must hurry and pass the health care reform bill and do it in his memory,"
"That not only defies good taste," said Huckabee, "it defies logic."
How the hell would he know about either of those things? Good thing Huckabee and his fellow partiers have been vigilant against crass politicization of Kennedy's passing. Good thing also that, per usual, the nearly filibuster-proof Democrats will just pin their legs behind their ears and take it.
"per usual, the nearly filibuster-proof Democrats will just pin their legs behind their ears and take it."
ReplyDeleteTake what? I presume you mean "things they don't want"...?
I think we need to quit fooling ourselves (and nearly all progressives seem to be doing it.)
We keep saying Dems are weak and they cave, as if they _want_ to represent us, as if they _want_ the things we want, and are just somehow ineffectual. They'll keep wearing that craven mask as long as we buy it (and it takes a low-down coward to be willing to wear that mask. They're willin.)
Fact is, most Dems _don't_ want what progressives want, they could give a shit. They want what the corporados that stuff them with cash want, whatever that is at the moment. Most of them are as deceitful and dishonorable as the repugs are.
We gotta stop thinking of these people as our 'friends' who are just weak. Unless they really fight for what we want they are _not our friends_.
It's gotta start with public-only financing of campaigns (and btw netroots less-than-$2k-per-individual _is_ public financing too.)
(Yeah, and who's gonna make that happen?.... It appears to me that we're fkd.)