Early Morning Swim
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 1st, 2011 4:44 am by HL
Early Morning Swim
Only two links this morning.
Only two links this morning. First, the Shrill One.
In the long run, however, Democrats won’t be the only losers. What Republicans have just gotten away with calls our whole system of government into question. After all, how can American democracy work if whichever party is most prepared to be ruthless, to threaten the nation’s economic security, gets to dictate policy? And the answer is, maybe it can’t.
If you want to have power, stop slobbering all over abject failure. And stop dreaming that you’ll ever have any influence at the top by elevating people whose only systemic function is to serve as an opiate for liberals when they’re getting screwed. Good lord, Mitch McConnell ran circles around the Democrats these past few weeks. Even as you watched him orchestrate the American decline, you had to marvel at his political skill — and acknowledge there was no one on the left who could do that.
How can you hope to challenge the established order when your leaders are nothing more than serial losers?
But it’s a win for “centrism and compromise” Jonathan Alter told me last night on MSNBC.
Oy.
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