Sexism, what sexism?

Detail from a mural in famously politically correct Cambridge, MA:



I know I shouldn't object.

The other day I mentioned to some family members that I was ashamed of the low-quality attacks many "progressives" levy at Sarah Palin, which among other things are completely gratuitous given how unpopular and worthy of criticism her conservative political agenda is.

The response: "So, you like her?"

That which one doesn't smear and dehumanize, one likes. We're all Manicheans now.

In which I comment again at Open Left

Here.

Turns out I don't have Tourette's

The reason I've been swearing intermittently throughout the day is that I keep getting e-mail from self-satisfied "activist" groups, urging me to join in the kabukijerk du jour.

Religious People Are the Best People

The devil made her do it. (Warning: extremely graphic description).

Before casting the first stone, please remember that it's wrong to criticize anyone's religious convictions. Or so one is always told.

MoveOn.org bulk-mail audition piece

One of the economy's few bright spots is the rapidly growing field of Progressive-Kabuki Letter-Writing,

To see if I have what it takes to do this valuable work for industry-leader MoveOn.org, I've assembled a brief work sample:

Dear [person who hasn't gotten around to opting out of the mailing-list]:

President Obama's shit-sandwich agenda is under siege! [Some Democratic Rep who's barely more liberal than your average Blue Dog] said [some generic quote s/he won't back up with action].

Republicans are resorting to lies and innuendo to trash the plan that promises to put human excrement on every American's dinner table. The evil GOP thinks, instead, that what we need is a puke sandwich.

Will you be able to live with yourself... if you don't make a donation to MoveOn and call your Rep to demand poop patties on every plate?

Click here! And the same link here! And over here, [person who is searching for the opt-out link about two years too late], for the ersatz feeling of being a committed activist!

What's a little Dolchstoßlegende between friends?

Yes we can be forced not just to eat Obama's shit-sandwich health care deform, but to market it, as well.

Mike Lux:

* "to break with Obama and the party on this is the ultimate disloyalty"

* "This is the ultimate measure of whether you are part of the team, and the consequences of defeat on health care need to be made clear- yes, crystal clear- to everyone."

* "This is our hill to die on."

Jimmy Carter on how religion breeds sexism

The comments on YouTube are priceless, BTW.

What Peter Daou said

On how obsessing on and dehumanizing Sarah Palin isn't a path to a progressive future.

I would say, though, that he is in fact mistaken on what "the Obama spirit" is:

We shouldn’t forget our political opponents’ humanity, nor should we stoop to cheap attacks, innuendo and ridicule when we have ample disagreements on substance. If I’m not mistaken, that’s the Obama spirit.

Unless, of course, race-baiting and leveraging misogyny and CDS are some sort of antidote to cheap attacks, innuendo, and ridicule.

This is your country on NBC News

How much law would Chuck Todd chuck if Chuck Todd could chuck law? And, of course, with the bully pulpit of network and cable news, he can.

Nancy Pelosi makes it official

America is a second-rate country.

At least the health-insurance industry is giving us irony supplements

Kevin Moore:

The irony of the conservative objection that it will “destroy the health insurance industry” (as if that were a bad thing) is that the public option is designed to save the industry from our real need for a single-payer system.

Nice cartoon atop linked post, too!

A new definition of RFK (Request for Kabuki)

MoveOn claims to want to hear what healthcare professionals have to say about health care / insurance.

Here are a couple of voices you can bet they don't want to hear.

Polling, polling, polling!

Well, polling twice, anyway.

Taking stock of how two communities that brooked no Obama skepticism back in the day now feel about Obama critics:

* Democratic Underground
* Daily Kos

I don't think I want to be a good dog anymore