Writing about the bullying practices of Obama Democrats, Amity Shlaes observes:
In the past, politicians and policy thinkers tended to be magnanimous in victory. They and their friends focused, post- victory, on policy and strategy — not on trashing individuals.
It ought to be especially true this time, given what wonders are befalling the Democrats. Between Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania and Al Franken in Minnesota, it looks like the Democrats are in the process of making their Senate majority filibuster-proof. Then there’s the president’s new opportunity to mold the Supreme Court, with the resignation of David Souter.
Still, somehow, the magnanimity isn’t there. Indeed, the closer the Democrats get to total power, the nastier the commentators friendly to them have become.
She isn’t the first to wonder why the Democrats have been more bitter than magnanimous in the wake of their victories last fall. We’ve addressed this before. Byron York asked, “In time of victory, why is the left so angry?”
Shlaes suggests Democrats are acting out of weakness: “The party isn’t comfortable yet at the summit of political power.” She concludes by echoing a point familiar to readers of this blog:
Voters tend to tire the ad hominem approach. By smearing others, rather than putting forward ideas, the scribblers smear themselves instead.
As Glenn, who linked this post, might say, read the whole thing!
Calamity Shlaes is upset that people are ridiculing Michelle Bachmann (R-DSM-IV) ? Why, the perfidy! The woman is batchit insane, that’s why she’s being ridiculed.
And OH! How DARE anyone point out Cantor’s near endless lying? It’s vicious, that’s what it is!
Here, let me call a waaaaaahmbulance for you. Buncha whiners.
#1 – Sounds a lot like projection to me, troll. Don’t forget that your side of the aisle kept harping on Florida 2000 for 8 years.
Who’s calling the waaahmbulance now?
Checkmate.
Regards,
Peter H.
The only anger I’ve seen is from the teabagging sore losers and, more recently, the pre-anger from the wingnuts who have pre-condemned Obama’s Supreme Court nominee. Oh, and six months after Franken was elected, the Republicans still won’t give up.
Magic Dog, your blindness to the follies of your side is astounding. Just look at the comment #1 above for an example of the meanness of your side. The guy insults one Republican Congresswoman while accusing another (with no evidence whatsoever) of lying.
And no, it hasn’t been six months since Franken was “elected.” Coleman led all counts until December when that Democrat’s lawyers succeeded in selectively recounting the absentee ballots. No one will ever know who won more votes in that contest, in large part, due to Coleman’s sloppy legal team.
And that you would use the term “teabagging” to describe the other side shows exactly how you are part of the phenomenon to which you claim blindness.
Bruce, go pimp for Anita Bryant, ya self-hating fag.
Magic Dog, your comment just makes my point. Thank you. 🙂
#5 – Talk about a self-loathing individual. This person probably never had a happy day in their life.
Liberalism truly is a mental disorder.
Regards,
Peter H.
Gay Patriot, Joe the Plumber, and Carrie Prejean and her fake funbags. Now ain’t that the menage a trois to end ’em all? Add in Larry Craig, David Dreier, Patrick Henry, Charlie Crist, Ted Haggard, Mark Foley, and Ed Shrock, and you’ve got yourself one hell of a wingnut down-low orgy!
God, the comments on this blog are a source for endless amusement. GPW, you constantly twist yourself in knots to defend a defeated, out-of-touch political philosophy that has wrecked the economy, lied us into Iraq and performed illegal torture that will stain our country’s reputation for many years. The Republican ‘way’ is a total failure.
Just so you know, gay patriots, I’m not angry at all. I am rolling on the floor, laughing my ass off at you! From teabagging to fake Christian funbagging with your favorite porn starlet who doesn’t even get ya hard. Does it get any better?!
Is there a full moon? The mental ward sure has gone batty today.
Regards,
Peter H.
#7 Peter H.
You beat me to it.
The same people that suffered from BDS, are now venting to the moon due the fact that they cannot blame G. W. Bush for their sorry life.
Paraphrased from the comments section in another blog: When Republicans have the club in their hands, there’s no one more sadistic. When you take the club away, there’s no one more whiny.
Levi (#13): BINGO. The Republican Party is the classic playground bully, and the “gay patriots” are the classic victims who blame themselves for being picked on.
So, now I’m trying to figure it out. Let’s see. Joe the Plumber teabags Carrie Prejean on pay-per-view Internet, with the proceeds going to the National Association for Marriage. Bruce from Gay Patriot is the towelboy. Then Larry Craig (who we understand to be a top with a wide stance) teabags Ted Haggard, who we understand to be a bottom, with the video on Gay Patriot and the proceeds going to a meth rehab clinic in Colorado Springs. David Dreier serves appletinis!
good tag team, there.
it seems the liberals in here don’t regard Obamateleprompter and her highness Michelle ( of the $600 tennis shoes serving homeless people) with the same disdain as Republican leaders. Hmm they must not have been following our daily blunders, gaffes, from the boobs of this administration. Today he had to call in his massive Congressional majority to beg them to support his huge tax increase on carbon fuels. You know gasoline, oil, coal and heating oil. The precious photo op yesterday, with tax cheat Geithner next to him, bemoaning American corporations paying too little taxes. And how they weren’t going to stand for it. Talk about hysterical. How about Obamatelepromter dismissing Jumpin Joe Biden and sending him out of the country so he won’t be quoted for a while with his foot in his mouth. hehe
Gene, this is a genuine question: What’s this “teleprompter” thing about? I understand all the other insults directed at Obama, but I don’t get the references to teleprompters. Are wingers pissed that Obama uses one, or what?
Magic Dog — Stop foaming at the mouth and simmah down.
*I* didn’t even write this post, ya moron!
This friday we will see if the latest Obama unemployment rate shows an increase after Obamas pork bill. There are predictions of 600,000 -700,000 new citizens in the soup lines. Then this horrific story from the Democrat enclave of Michigan…
http://www.detnews.com/article/20090505/METRO/905050367/1408/LOCAL/Michiganians-mine-bodies-for-cash-to-make-ends-meet
Michigan with some of the worst Obama unemployment in the nation approaching 13%, it’s residents begin selling their hair, plasma, unfertilized eggs, organs, anything to make ends meet.
Please Mr President, call off your usual Wed nite party and get someone to help these souls. Michigan is a blue state. Not a red state like ND or SD that you didn’t care about during the recent horrible floods. Obamateleprompters people lately are quoted as saying “things are getting better, we see a bottom”. NICE. Talk about out of touch. Obama takes control of Chrylser…..yesterday they close indefinitely. $20 billion down the drain. Thanks Mr President.
Bruce, are you saying that you don’t want to be the towel boy?
Levi & Magic Dog are the perfect examples of the gay fascist thought: the primary reason this blog was started in 2004.
Thanks for reminding me, guys!
Dog, go sniff someone’s butt and work out your anger issues please.
Thanks 🙂
I will take that as a “No,” and will substitute “Gay Patriot West” as towel boy. Who knows, maybe Joe The Plumber will let him hold his balls. Or maybe not. Who is “Gay Patriot West,” anyhow?
Joe the P. is kinda hot, in a Mr. Clean sort of way. And for Gay Patriot West, maybe even hotter to know that Joe finds him completely disgusting.
Wow, what is with these angry comments?
The Dems control everything!!! Is that the problem, soon all the chickens will come home to roost and they won’t be able to blame Booosh any more.
Also, please let me know as soon as Obama gets rid of DADT or at least puts in a federal civil union bill – why not, he has a filibuster proof senate. What’s he waiting for!!!
Leah, he does not have a filibuster proof senate. The Republicans are soon to enter month seven of delay on Franken, and Specter has declared that he’s not a loyal Democrat. Not that telling the truth ever counted with your kind.
LOL….yes, how dare Coleman question the fact that in Obama Party-controlled precincts, Obama Party judges “found” ballot boxes in their trunks and somehow managed to have more votes cast than people who actually registered.
But then again, given how the Obama Party supports and funds with taxpayer dollars organizations who commit voter fraud and voter registration fraud like ACORN, as well as producing cities who have more registered voters than actual residents qualified to vote there, this is no surprise to anyone.
Leah, thats exactly whats going on. Liberals have their dream team running everything, and despite their ceaseless lies about how Bush ruined this and trashed that, they can see, as everyone else does, that nothing has improved under their leadership, but everything has gotten far, FAR worse, from spending to the economy to unemployment to international relations.
On top of that, they have told the whole world how PERFECT Obama is — he’s brilliant, he’s cool, he’s a genius! So they have left themselves absolutely no out. When their policies fail, as they already have and continue to worsen, they cant say that Obama didn’t get a fair shake, they cant say that the message was right, but they had a bad messenger, they know as well as we do that their ideology is proving itself once and for all an unworkable failure and an ideology of tyranny and banana republic thuggery, it is becoming clearer and clearer that it was Democrats that caused the financial crisis, that liberalism is making everything worse and they are scared sh*tless.
Magic Dog reminds me of a situation that I encountered more than 20 years ago. As you know I am a straight married woman, and I have conservative leanings although I consider myself as a centrist because I detest the far right as much as I detest the libtards on the left.
As a public servant I worked with men and women who were gay. One man was very overt, complete with long hair. Actually he was a really obnoxious individual. In the case of another man, I found one who was extremely professional such that if someone had not told me he was gay I would never have known. There was a third individual, a woman, and the less said about her, the better really. I hesitate to tell the rest of the story about the rather obnoxious character, at the way he hissed at Christians, but needless to say it was a rather pitiful display of his own-self hatred.
My point is that people like Magic Dog make themselves into obnoxious human beings because they act so bloody elitist. In this case Magic Dog is a guest, just like I am a guest on this blog, and yet he abuses the blog owner calling him a fag etc. etc. Yet, I have found the owners of this blog to be very polite and clear-thinking individuals.
Magic Dog is a good example of the projection that is so often seen amongst those with a liberal bent. They have so much self-loathing that they have to spit out their own self-loathing onto others.
What a shame that he does not follow the example of Bruce and Leah and a few others that I have come to know on this blog.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned the obvious. The reason why the Left is so hostile even in the face of many victories is because the Left is generally unappeasable. It doesn’t matter what one does, the Left is never satisfied. It’s never good enough. They always want more..more..more. Just look at Connecticut. They legalized civil unions granting gays 100% the same benefits as married couples, but within hours after the law was finalized, a lawsuit was filed trying to force the state to call it marriage. Here is another example of the Left fighting over trivialities. If the only thing we have to complain about in the US is word usage, then we have NOTHING to complain about. But the Left will never see it that way. Nothing, nothing in America anyway, will ever make them happy. But don’t fret: In many ways Left’s inability to be appeased actually results in it enervating its own power. In the game of politics, give and take is rule number 1. The Left can never hold onto power simply because they cannot comprehend Rule 1.