FIRE Rahm Emanuel from DCCC chair! Thanks to Chris Boyers from MyDD for pointing out Rahm's RETHUGLICAN TALKING POINTS....
FIRE Rahm Emanuel as DCCC chair!
(sigh) IF WE HAVE TO FIRE EVERY SINGLE damn DLC 'Democrat' in Washington DC, we will come within one-one-thousandth of knowing how President Lincoln felt, firing US Army generals (after disastrous, high-casualty battles) like discarding cards in a hand of poker, until he found those, like Generals Grant and Sherman, WHO WOULD FIGHT!
Rahm Emanuel, DCCC chair, spouting off almost every_single_one of Karl Rove's 'despise Democrats as weak, cowering, and unAmerican' (paraphrasing the distilled essence of Rove's GOP-) talking points:
<< In this case,[Emanuel's book] it was virtually EVERY MAJOR ANTI-Democratic NARRATIVE IN THE COUNTRY. >>
<< Wow. In just a few paragraphs, Reed and [DCCC Chair Rahm] Emanuel MANAGE TO REINFORCE VIRTUALLY EVERY ANTI-Democratic NARRATIVE IN EXISTANCE. We have NO new ideas, we DON'T STAND FOR ANYTHING, we are EQUALLY TO BLAME for polarized politics, we have been taken over by the angry left, conservatism is the only good ideology, Democrats won't do any better, our predecessors expanded government too much, and maverick John McCain is the only hope for unifying this country. And so our national image as a party is completely destroyed. >>
[plus of course the alpha-and-omega of Rethuglican Propaganda, that RETHUGLICANS ARE BETTER at PROTECTING AMERICA and 'fighting the war on terra' than clueless, cowering Democrats, who have, indeed, been parasitized from inside out by DLC corporate whores, like Emanuel, who spout a RETHUGLICAN, 'despise Democrats' message from WITHIN the Democratic Party.]
---------------------------------------
Thanks to Chris Boyers from MyDD for pointing out Rahm's RETHUGLICAN TALKING POINTS, and Eric Alterman for pointing out Chris Boyer's excellent compilation/deconstruction.
Boyer's excellent line-by-line deconstrution shows us.... that What we have here is outright TREACHERY: Democrat "LEADERS" ** CAUGHT IN THE ACT of SABOTAGING Democratic and American voter's needs and wishes ** (affordable prescription drugs, COMPETENT disaster relief, COMPETENCE in prosecuting the war on terror, protection from credit extortion for American consumers, protection for American jobs from 'Free Trade' outsourcing, protection from corporate fraud and media consolidation, etc., etc., etc., ad infinitum).
In this case Rahm Emanuel sounds LIKE KARL ROVE's PUPPY on a leash, so HE, DCCC Chair Rahm Emauel (and the other DLC corporate whore 'Democrats'), can maintain their bubble of comfort, SELLING OUT DEMOCRATIC VOTERS in return from lobbyist and big-corporate campaign donations and the power and influence that comes with being a Democrat party powerbroker.
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This Is Progress: The Heavy Cost of Government [AND MEDIA!] Lies
by Eric Alterman
29 August 2006
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-alterman/this-is-progress-the-hea_b_28302.html
When I read David Grossman's eulogy for his son, Uri, here,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/25/AR2006082501192_pf.html
I started to cry in the middle of it and couldn't do anything else for a long time. Remember, there are over 5,200 American parents and roughly 100,000 Iraqi parents who feel the same way today, all due to our government's lies--and so much of the media's willingness to shill for them.
And hey look, Mickey is hassling....
http://www.slate.com/id/2148486/
.....Chris Matthews, of all people, for not being sufficiently optimistic about Iraq, given alleged late-breaking news, which is apparently exclusive to Andrew Sullivan.
Ruhhly. What is in the koolaid they sell at Slate? Hey "Mickster," [did you] see TP this morning?
http://www.slate.com/id/2148538
====================================
[Note: due to formating, this article is much better viewed at the original site]
Don't Read This Book
by Chris Bowers, Wed Aug 16, 2006 at 01:03:32 PM EST
http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/8/16/13332/0850
Oh my, Emanuel, and I had been complementing you a lot recently too. Naively, I had thought that the new book by Emanuel and Reed would just be a list of wonky policy details, and would restrain itself from attacking Democrats. Wrongo--I should have know there was no way Reed could restrain himself from doing that. Here is most of excerpt from the prologue the new book by Bruce Reed and Rahm Emanuel:
<< We're both dyed-in-the-wool, lifelong Democrats, but... >>
I always dread the end of any sentence that starts that way, wondering what anti-Democratic narrative is about to be reified by our "leadership."
In this case, it was virtually every major anti-Democratic narrative in the country.
<< ...we can't help but notice that in recent years, both parties in Washington lost their way. >>
Message to voters: don't vote, we both suck. Democrats are no better than Republicans.
Americans scratch their heads in wonder that Republicans and Democrats can't find common purpose.
Message to voters: Democrats and Republicans are equally to blame for a polarized Washington, even though Republicans are in charge during this period of increased polarization..
But the challenge is deeper: Each party needs to be clearer in its own purpose.
Message to voters: Republicans are correct when they say Democrats really don't stand for anything.
How could conservatism--which even with its many shortcomings was once a rigorous doctrine--have come to such a small-minded, unsatisfying demise? Republicans who rode to power on conservative ideals turned them into a hollow faith. Conservatism became a strategy for winning elections, not leading a nation--for staying in power, not respecting its limits. Conservative leaders forgot what made them conservatives in the first place: a recognition that rigid ideology has always been the God That Failed, and that no idea is good if it doesn't work.
Message to voters: The Club for Growth is right. Conservatism is the best and only ideological doctrine in this country, it just needs to be done right.
Ironically, conservatives made government bigger, not smaller. In Senator John McCain's phrase, Washington Republicans spent like drunken sailors--a conservative administration leading the biggest domestic spending spree since Lyndon Johnson.
Message to voters: John McCain for President, because Democratic Presidents are bad and spend too much
No wonder Republicans are confused of late: They say their purpose is to get government off our backs, but they have little interest in or intention of doing so, and years of conclusive proof show that left to their own devices, they'll do just the opposite.
Message to voters: Republicans are right in what they say, so we are just going actually follow through on it.
With Republicans confused and corrupted by being in power, Democrats became so desperate to stop the damage that we often forgot to show where we'd like to lead the country instead.
Message to voters: Republicans are right when they say Democrats have no ideas.
In the 1990s, Democrats began to define a new mission for the country and the party, with impressive results. But in recent years, our anger and frustration with the other side steered us away from our real strength: America hires Democrats to help solve problems, not to listen to us whine about them.
Message to voters: Republicans are right when they say Democrats have been taken over by the angry left.
If all this were just about politics--one confused party somehow outmaneuvering the other--it might not matter that so many Republicans and some Democrats lost their way.
Message to voters: it does not matter who is in charge.
Wow. In just a few paragraphs, Reed and Emanuel manage to reinforce virtually every anti-Democratic narrative in existence. We have no new ideas, we don't stand for anything, we are equally to blame for polarized politics, we have been taken over by the angry left, conservatism is the only good ideology, Democrats won't do any better, our predecessors expanded government too much, and maverick John McCain is the only hope for unifying this country. And so our national image as a party is completely destroyed.
Don't read this book. Stay as far away form it as you can. It may very well succeed in wiping out any and all progress we have tried to make on anti-Democratic media narratives for the past couple years. This book closes Daou's triangle on us so many times in such a short stretch that even Joe Lieberman would be stunned. I don't know how they "plan" to triangulate themselves against their entire party and then still see that party take power, but hey, if that is their "plan," then I have a "plan" too.
Here is my "plan": someone, for the love of God, invent a time machine so Bruce Reed and Rahm Emanuel can just go and live in the 1990's forever, pretending that the messages that worked then will work even unto the ending of the world. They can also pretend that their 1990's strategy of reifying every negative about Demcorats that Republicans spin played absolutely no role in Republicans dominating electoral politics of the last several cycles. I'll come back and go to a few concerts with them, but I won't stay. I always regretted that I couldn't go see the Red Hot Chili Peppers on tour with Pearl Jam and the Smashing Pumpkins, since the New York State public high school cross country championships were the next day. That was in late-1991 before any of those bands were "cool," and when Emanuel and Reed could still justifiably claim that repeating the same things about Democrats that Republicans say didn't lead to a massive deterioration in our national image as a party. Then, I suppose, we will all be happy.
(sigh) IF WE HAVE TO FIRE EVERY SINGLE damn DLC 'Democrat' in Washington DC, we will come within one-one-thousandth of knowing how President Lincoln felt, firing US Army generals (after disastrous, high-casualty battles) like discarding cards in a hand of poker, until he found those, like Generals Grant and Sherman, WHO WOULD FIGHT!
Rahm Emanuel, DCCC chair, spouting off almost every_single_one of Karl Rove's 'despise Democrats as weak, cowering, and unAmerican' (paraphrasing the distilled essence of Rove's GOP-) talking points:
<< In this case,[Emanuel's book] it was virtually EVERY MAJOR ANTI-Democratic NARRATIVE IN THE COUNTRY. >>
<< Wow. In just a few paragraphs, Reed and [DCCC Chair Rahm] Emanuel MANAGE TO REINFORCE VIRTUALLY EVERY ANTI-Democratic NARRATIVE IN EXISTANCE. We have NO new ideas, we DON'T STAND FOR ANYTHING, we are EQUALLY TO BLAME for polarized politics, we have been taken over by the angry left, conservatism is the only good ideology, Democrats won't do any better, our predecessors expanded government too much, and maverick John McCain is the only hope for unifying this country. And so our national image as a party is completely destroyed. >>
[plus of course the alpha-and-omega of Rethuglican Propaganda, that RETHUGLICANS ARE BETTER at PROTECTING AMERICA and 'fighting the war on terra' than clueless, cowering Democrats, who have, indeed, been parasitized from inside out by DLC corporate whores, like Emanuel, who spout a RETHUGLICAN, 'despise Democrats' message from WITHIN the Democratic Party.]
---------------------------------------
Thanks to Chris Boyers from MyDD for pointing out Rahm's RETHUGLICAN TALKING POINTS, and Eric Alterman for pointing out Chris Boyer's excellent compilation/deconstruction.
Boyer's excellent line-by-line deconstrution shows us.... that What we have here is outright TREACHERY: Democrat "LEADERS" ** CAUGHT IN THE ACT of SABOTAGING Democratic and American voter's needs and wishes ** (affordable prescription drugs, COMPETENT disaster relief, COMPETENCE in prosecuting the war on terror, protection from credit extortion for American consumers, protection for American jobs from 'Free Trade' outsourcing, protection from corporate fraud and media consolidation, etc., etc., etc., ad infinitum).
In this case Rahm Emanuel sounds LIKE KARL ROVE's PUPPY on a leash, so HE, DCCC Chair Rahm Emauel (and the other DLC corporate whore 'Democrats'), can maintain their bubble of comfort, SELLING OUT DEMOCRATIC VOTERS in return from lobbyist and big-corporate campaign donations and the power and influence that comes with being a Democrat party powerbroker.
-----------------------------------
This Is Progress: The Heavy Cost of Government [AND MEDIA!] Lies
by Eric Alterman
29 August 2006
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-alterman/this-is-progress-the-hea_b_28302.html
When I read David Grossman's eulogy for his son, Uri, here,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/25/AR2006082501192_pf.html
I started to cry in the middle of it and couldn't do anything else for a long time. Remember, there are over 5,200 American parents and roughly 100,000 Iraqi parents who feel the same way today, all due to our government's lies--and so much of the media's willingness to shill for them.
And hey look, Mickey is hassling....
http://www.slate.com/id/2148486/
.....Chris Matthews, of all people, for not being sufficiently optimistic about Iraq, given alleged late-breaking news, which is apparently exclusive to Andrew Sullivan.
Ruhhly. What is in the koolaid they sell at Slate? Hey "Mickster," [did you] see TP this morning?
http://www.slate.com/id/2148538
====================================
[Note: due to formating, this article is much better viewed at the original site]
Don't Read This Book
by Chris Bowers, Wed Aug 16, 2006 at 01:03:32 PM EST
http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/8/16/13332/0850
Oh my, Emanuel, and I had been complementing you a lot recently too. Naively, I had thought that the new book by Emanuel and Reed would just be a list of wonky policy details, and would restrain itself from attacking Democrats. Wrongo--I should have know there was no way Reed could restrain himself from doing that. Here is most of excerpt from the prologue the new book by Bruce Reed and Rahm Emanuel:
<< We're both dyed-in-the-wool, lifelong Democrats, but... >>
I always dread the end of any sentence that starts that way, wondering what anti-Democratic narrative is about to be reified by our "leadership."
In this case, it was virtually every major anti-Democratic narrative in the country.
<< ...we can't help but notice that in recent years, both parties in Washington lost their way. >>
Message to voters: don't vote, we both suck. Democrats are no better than Republicans.
Americans scratch their heads in wonder that Republicans and Democrats can't find common purpose.
Message to voters: Democrats and Republicans are equally to blame for a polarized Washington, even though Republicans are in charge during this period of increased polarization..
But the challenge is deeper: Each party needs to be clearer in its own purpose.
Message to voters: Republicans are correct when they say Democrats really don't stand for anything.
How could conservatism--which even with its many shortcomings was once a rigorous doctrine--have come to such a small-minded, unsatisfying demise? Republicans who rode to power on conservative ideals turned them into a hollow faith. Conservatism became a strategy for winning elections, not leading a nation--for staying in power, not respecting its limits. Conservative leaders forgot what made them conservatives in the first place: a recognition that rigid ideology has always been the God That Failed, and that no idea is good if it doesn't work.
Message to voters: The Club for Growth is right. Conservatism is the best and only ideological doctrine in this country, it just needs to be done right.
Ironically, conservatives made government bigger, not smaller. In Senator John McCain's phrase, Washington Republicans spent like drunken sailors--a conservative administration leading the biggest domestic spending spree since Lyndon Johnson.
Message to voters: John McCain for President, because Democratic Presidents are bad and spend too much
No wonder Republicans are confused of late: They say their purpose is to get government off our backs, but they have little interest in or intention of doing so, and years of conclusive proof show that left to their own devices, they'll do just the opposite.
Message to voters: Republicans are right in what they say, so we are just going actually follow through on it.
With Republicans confused and corrupted by being in power, Democrats became so desperate to stop the damage that we often forgot to show where we'd like to lead the country instead.
Message to voters: Republicans are right when they say Democrats have no ideas.
In the 1990s, Democrats began to define a new mission for the country and the party, with impressive results. But in recent years, our anger and frustration with the other side steered us away from our real strength: America hires Democrats to help solve problems, not to listen to us whine about them.
Message to voters: Republicans are right when they say Democrats have been taken over by the angry left.
If all this were just about politics--one confused party somehow outmaneuvering the other--it might not matter that so many Republicans and some Democrats lost their way.
Message to voters: it does not matter who is in charge.
Wow. In just a few paragraphs, Reed and Emanuel manage to reinforce virtually every anti-Democratic narrative in existence. We have no new ideas, we don't stand for anything, we are equally to blame for polarized politics, we have been taken over by the angry left, conservatism is the only good ideology, Democrats won't do any better, our predecessors expanded government too much, and maverick John McCain is the only hope for unifying this country. And so our national image as a party is completely destroyed.
Don't read this book. Stay as far away form it as you can. It may very well succeed in wiping out any and all progress we have tried to make on anti-Democratic media narratives for the past couple years. This book closes Daou's triangle on us so many times in such a short stretch that even Joe Lieberman would be stunned. I don't know how they "plan" to triangulate themselves against their entire party and then still see that party take power, but hey, if that is their "plan," then I have a "plan" too.
Here is my "plan": someone, for the love of God, invent a time machine so Bruce Reed and Rahm Emanuel can just go and live in the 1990's forever, pretending that the messages that worked then will work even unto the ending of the world. They can also pretend that their 1990's strategy of reifying every negative about Demcorats that Republicans spin played absolutely no role in Republicans dominating electoral politics of the last several cycles. I'll come back and go to a few concerts with them, but I won't stay. I always regretted that I couldn't go see the Red Hot Chili Peppers on tour with Pearl Jam and the Smashing Pumpkins, since the New York State public high school cross country championships were the next day. That was in late-1991 before any of those bands were "cool," and when Emanuel and Reed could still justifiably claim that repeating the same things about Democrats that Republicans say didn't lead to a massive deterioration in our national image as a party. Then, I suppose, we will all be happy.
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