This is an excellent link. I didn't really believe Libby would do any time, but it still irritates me. I guess I can still bring myself to care.

See Dennis' post(This is an excellent link. I didn't really believe Libby would do any time, but it still irritates me. I guess I can still bring myself to care.

See Dennis' post (http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2007/07/system-normal.html) where he takes the news as an opportunity to get pissed at liberals. I'm sometimes confused why he focuses his anger that way; surely most of the liberal bloggers hate the Clintons too, and the flagrant abuse of power seems like a legitimate target for anger.

But I'm just an idiot wasting his time commenting on a blog.) where he takes the news as an opportunity to get pissed at liberals. I'm sometimes confused why he focuses his anger that way; surely most of the liberal bloggers hate the Clintons too, and the flagrant abuse of power seems like a legitimate target for anger.

But I'm just an idiot wasting his time commenting on a blog.

Yo, eat a dick, curtis. Dennis was exactly right about Digby's speech. It sucked. And he's exactly right about liberal bloggers. They suck. Their contribution to the discourse seems to be shameless shilling for Democrats. Wow. Worth defending. Let's attack anyone who insults them. What's your "workable" idea, "Vote for Kerry"? Nice. Nice. That worked real well, last time. Keep it up. Let's have more bright, shining ideas like that.

curtis & saurabh,

Please settle down a bit. Try to keep your eyes on the prize (a better world, I'm assuming) and less on your understandable frustration. Invective among possible allies is not useful.

yrs.,
Blogmom

curtis. Here's a workable idea---call Nancy @1-202-225-0100, DISCUSS IMPEACHMENT. Call today as the opperator is REALLY sounding pissed, and that's a GOOD SIGN.

curtis interruptus? Slick tag. Go with it.

As for the rest of your concerns, I must remind you that I worked for Kerry/Edwards in '04, phone banked, drove the elderly to the polls to vote for that winning ticket, even discussed politics with the senior Kerry workers, but they weren't informed about much. All they wanted was Kerry to win the election, as did I. They had clouds in their eyes about a new Dem dawn, while I subscribed to the Chomsky quote you generously provided.

Cheers!

I love your blog, Dennis, I just don't understand the degree to which you get irritated at liberal bloggers sometimes. It seems to me, like Jonathan says, counterproductive, sometimes, because there is a lot you agree on. I am outraged at this latest show of lawlessness. I just am not surprised.

I just don't understand the degree to which you get irritated at liberal bloggers sometimes.

well, have you read Kos lately? that's the gold standard to which a lot of bloggers adhered to till the past year or so, with plenty of thoughtful voices that focussed on more than just the current election cycle getting drowned out by the sheer noise.

a lot of them place more immediate value on democrats and the democratic party than thinking about the larger issues and why it is that the party has failed so spectacularly to deliver on the promises that gave them a majority in both houses of congress. it is the same even with luminaries of the genre including digby, though to a slightly less degree (similar to the distinction between bush and kerry i guess)

the 'liberal' blogosphere(dear zarasthura do i hate that term) with a few notable exceptions absolutely sucks.

I've read only a few Kos articles, and none recently. I'd gotten the impression it wasn't worth it. Everything appears to be followed with a massive abundance of comments, and it sort of looks like an echo chamber. I read about the meet-up at Stop Me Before I Vote Again, and it sounded like the kind of mutual-admiration society I'd as soon avoid, besides the fact that they wanted to peddle their influence to the likes of Wesley Clark and Mark Warner. (I think if you authorize the bombing of a television station, the question shouldn't be whether you should be President, but where you'll be serving your life sentence.)

But not everyone is Kos. My experience with liberal blogs is just to read whatever link I follow and try to tune out the irrational hope and undeserved respect. I mean, we're on the same side. Somewhat.

This post kinda sums it up:

http://daltonator.net/durandal/blog/?p=104

Nothing short of impeachment hearing will do.