“106. Chuck Pelto:
TO: adam, et al.
RE: Don’t You….
apparently, the public option has been declared dead. — adam
….believe it.
This sort of control is too important to let go.
They’ll try again. Maybe even over the next 12 months. Before the 2010 election in which they stand a good chance of losing control of both houses of Congress.
They could….
• Slip in an amendment to some other bill that does the same thing.
• They could try another more subtle approach in another bill of 2000+ pages.
The point being, they’ll not give up. They’ll try again.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.]”
No argument here–I certainly didn’t mean to counsel complacency, just to track the effectiveness of what Malkin is calling the “counter-insurgency.” There has certainly been a retreat by the other side, however strategic and temporary it may be. We should understand how it was forced.
“113. Moho:
Samizdat and Commuter–>the funny part is that no one cries harder about the uncivilized discourse of those mean ol’ leftists than the regular commenters here. And I’ve yet to see any of the non-teabagging commenters whine to the moderators about opinions they dislike. Face it, you’re talking about your own folks here. No one whines harder or plays the ref more than your side.”
A leftist urging toughness and stoicism–not in foreign policy, of course, or for themselves (we haven’t forgotten about all the shrieking about Bush supposedly “questioning people’s patriotism”); just for their enemies, their real enemies (not the Islamofascists, of course), American conservatives. But no one knows better then Leftists that the battle proceeds on the terrain of vocabulary as well, upon which words will define the issues. Speaking just for myself here, pointing out over and over again that the use of the word “teabaggers” shows that the Democrats “political imaginary” is essentially an obscene one, and banishing their obscenity from conservative sites and shaming them should they bring their filthy minds outside of blogs and MSNBC gigglefests is of the utmost political importance. Let Americans factor into their decisions about how much power they want Democrats to seize that today’s “best and brightest” develop their political terminology the same way as the characters in “American Pie” develop their ethical one–out of a pornographized view of the world.
