I really did not think I would have to add Mr. "Big Fucking Deal" Joe "The Vice President" Biden to the list of Democrats who did not fucking get it, but I guess I do.
This is what Joe Biden had to say recently about the Professional Left.
Seriously?
Joe Biden is telling us to "stop whining" at a time when enthusiasm on his supposed side of the aisle is doing nothing but lagging.
He claims that the President has "kept his promises" and thus we apparently need to stop being babies and go vote for Democrats because Republicans are lurking in the shadows.
To do...what...differently?
To escalate our foreign wars?
Oh, wait, that was done by President Obama in Afghanistan.
To cut Social Security/Medicare?
Well, the President’s Cat Food Commission lead by a pig-headed, open-mouthed conservative who runs secrete Mason-like closed door meetings in which defense contractors can freeze military pay in order to protect their profits and the cutting of Social Security benefits is on the table like a fat suckling pig with 310 million...bites...at the proverbial apple, just ready to be taken by the federal government.
To increase the police state and defend the shit out of everything as a state secret? To continue Bush-era policies on torture, rendition, executions, and detainment at Gitmo?
No, the President’s doing all that pretty well on his own.
To stand in the way of gay Americans openly serving in the military, or even enjoying the right to marry who they love?
Once again, President Obama is still doing this job for them, saying he opposes gay marriage, but discriminating against them is, you know, wrong...and that DADT is terrible policy, but gosh darn it, he’s in the middle of 11-dimensional chess donchaknow and he can’t just end it and save the assets to our military can he? It’s not like he’s the, I don’t know, Commander-in-Chief of the entire US armed forces...
To restrict a woman’s right to choose an abortion if she wants it?
Oops! Obama’s dog-and-pony show with the health care bill and the big signing bullshit brouhaha in which Bart Stupak’s minions (who are, of course, part of the wonderful "Big Tent" Democratic coalition, so we have to accept their views too!) got to preen in front of a million cameras and ostensibly get what they wanted while liberal stalwart Dennis Kuncinich holds a press conference to essentially say he’d been browbeaten into supporting the bill while getting nothing in return.
....So Mr. Vice President, I have this to say.
If you really want us to stop whining and to vote for Democrats because the "alternative" in Republicans is so bad, perhaps your administration should stop shitting on your base and stop pursuing Republican ideas.
Giving things your base wants is a "big fucking deal" if you want them to vote for you.
Just sayin’. Sir.
Update:
Can't say much now, only on a lunch break, but I want to offer my thanks to the Kossacks who felt this deserved the Rec List.
This is a conversation we need to be having, and I feel more than a little humbled that this diary got a little attention.
Thank you.