I'm mad as hell, and I don't think I can take it anymore.
We’ve had plenty of meta diaries around lately about "exhaustion" about "not being exhausted". We’ve had diaries about being "fired up". We’ve had "So what?" diaries.
We’ve had the "Stop attacking it doesn’t do any good" diaries.
I might point out that a diary of mine recently got about 40 replies when I confronted "Moderate" Dems who wanted to keep the Bush Richie Rich tax cuts, yet LaFeminista (whose writing I thoroughly enjoy I must add) rants and gets 200+ on the same subject.
So allow me to add further to the meta/whatever pool and just say this.
I am not "exhausted" at defending Democrats or President Obama.
I am downright fucking exasperated with them, and I don’t know that that feeling is going to subside anytime soon.
Before you try and trot out bogeymen like President Palin/Speaker Boehner/Queen Bachmann or anything, let me stop you right now.
All of those scary things coming to pass mean fuck all to me if the Democrats continue to be lead around by a bunch of sniveling, doddering bunch of WEENIE LIBERALS.
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The Democrats are being handed what should be a cornerstone of their campaign this election season. Tax cuts for the middle class? A winner! Burying the cuts for the richest of the rich? Also a winner!
Republicans want to save the rich and all those luscious campaign donations that will sure come with them, but they don’t care. They’re on the wrong side of history on pretty much everything, right?
So why is it that today, everyone from HuffPo to TPM to here to there to every damn place in the blogosphere is now reporting – most of it aghast and slack-jawed – that Democrats are GOING TO PUNT THE FUCKING BALL ON FIRST AND TEN?????
UGH.
Seriously. What winning issue needs to come up before Democrats take it up and force Republicans to vote against it?
Is Apple Pie American? I bet the Dem leadership would punt on that too.
Are happy families a good thing? Nope! Can’t hold that vote, because Republicans are mean and Conservatraitor Dems come from difficult districts.
Do we live on Planet Earth? I think Republicans will filibuster the shit out of that, and election season is here. Can’t hold a vote with such a heavy lift like that!
For the love of [insert preferred spiritual or non spiritual reference here].
I don’t get it anymore.
I hate my DINO Congressman. I am starting to hate everyone with a D next to their name.
I will not attack the President, because frankly I think internally, he’s probably tired of this shit too.
But even the President of the United States can’t get much done when purported members of his own fucking party can’t get the simplest of shit right.
When an issue is a winner, you pursue the hell out of it. Make your opponents take the tough votes. Show the American people you want to lead, to govern, to act.
Democrats are clearly not interested in that.
To each Democrat who thinks this is a good idea, I say good fucking riddance to you after you lose to a Teahadist in November.
You disgust me.