I'm Calling Bullshit

I'm calling bullshit on our Echo Chamber, which accuses the complicit and confused Dem leadership of, in the words of Aravosis, "sitting back and scratching their heads wondering why the country isn't simply running into our arms while they sit back and do nothing to earn the country's respect and loyalty,"  while it does nothing substantive to get the attention of those head-scratchers.  They won't, to coin a phrase, simply run into our arms.

Atrios linked to John's post.  Kos can't be far behind.  Everyone likes the idea of throwin' the bums out.  So do I.  I also like the idea of not installing yet another bum at the insistance of the head-scratchers,  who so far have only proven to us that they know how to lose, accommodate, yield and lose again. 

I'll say it again: the candidacies of Chuck Pennacchio (my guy) and Alan Sandals in the PA senate race provide our Echo Chamber a perfect cause with which to make our case clear: No more Me-Too Dems.   And yet there is silence from our big guns.  I don't know what they're waiting for.  I don't know what their strategy is.  I don't know why they think that anti-choice, pro-war, corporate Casey is an okay option for the most important congressional race in the country in a state that is wildly moderate. 

I used to think that a Casey candidacy was telling women that the Democratic party doesn't need them to win.  Now it's clear to me that that message of "thanks but no thanks" is extended to every Dem who sees him/herself to the left of Eisenhower.   

I'm sick and tired of hearing our Echo Chamber make big bold statements about the chance that needs to happen in the party and then sit idly by while the right-wing status quo is more deeply entrenched.  So spare me the outrage until there's some action to support it.

Comments

[he who is known as sefton]

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Thanks to my perusing your blog, specifically, "Factesque", I have arrived at what I believe is a defensible inference. Both you and your readers would welcome news of in-your-face overt opposition to your "smirking chimp", my "dum'ya botch".

In plainer terms, I want to run for Representative for Pennsylvania's 10th Congressional District on a platform calling for the impeachment of President George Walker Bush.

Incidentally, I deliberately referred to your blog, to indicate that I visited your blog as an individual, and not as a spammer. Yes, that last is an illustion to a "pre-deconstruction" chick flick with a rating of two and a half hankies.

Ah, before you click on any of the enclosed hyperlinks, please read the entirely of my comment. For example, the three planks I nailed together in my platform out to get me elected. "impeach bush" is the first plank. The second is "impeach bush". The third is like the second, "impeach bush".

To continue, the first hyperlink below leads to the opening salvo of my campaign.

http://hewhoisknownassefton.blogspot.com/2006/01/danger-senator-specter-danger.html

As for the second hyperlink, it leads to evidence that my candidacy is about more than opposition solely for the sake of opposition.

http://hewhoisknownassefton.blogspot.com/2006/01/dispelling-stench-in-oval.html

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.he who is known as sefton

oh, yeah, I should add that, in Epimethean Comment, I make the case that nominating Judge Alito to the Supreme Court is tantamount to treason.

[JD]

HWIKAS: Go for it! But I would suggest a plank 3A: Impeach Cheney, too.

[eRobin]

JD is right. It's really no good unless you impeach the top seven or eight dozen GOP guys. It's too bad because when the president is a felon and has undermined the Constitution he swore to uphold, impeachment should be a no-brainer.