Cats In Cradles and Soggy Strawmen
Have you ever awakened from a nightmare only to find out that you weren't actually asleep? Just curious. It seems this is what has happened to one Marty Kaplan at the Society of Deranged Lifophobes.
The very title of the piece brings back a recollection of previous authors at the same place...two by Cesca and the original fraud and whiner Arianna herself. They have several things in common but the primary commonality is their insignificance.
What do I mean? Glad you asked. I read the article and the only thing I got out of it as a subliminal message is this; "No one is listening to us anymore!" I wonder what their first clue was?[...] The majority of Democrats -- hell, the majority of Americans -- are boiling with outrage at Bush and the Republicans. You know what? They're right. They don't want a new president who'll make nice with Mitch McConnell and James Dobson; they want someone who'll smash them to smithereens. This is no time for Jerry Ford's "our long national nightmare is over," his "healing" pardon of Nixon; this is a time to bring lawbreakers to the bar of justice, to make Constitutional criminals accountable. This is no moment for "the issue is competence, not ideology," Dukakis's losing message; this is a moment to break the stranglehold of religious extremists on government, and to call a liar a liar. This is no season for third-party or fusion-folly Perots or Bloombergs; this a season for reclaiming politics from billionaires, for making Party mean something, not nothing. [...]
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!
Moron.
Read the rest of the poor slog's drivel. Bring your laughing bag. And, while you are at it, try and come up with the substantiation of the 70% of America figure. It would be interesting reading and no one on the left can come up with "The How" they came up with that number.
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