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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Daily Kos Is Getting Stupid Again


I was over at Daily Kos, which has done a really good job of following events in Wisconsin and elsewhere. The new website is spiffy and the crazy has been mostly contained.

Then I read this.

It's a screed, followed by a long series of concurring comments, about Obama going to Florida and praising the Bush family's long career of public service.  Praising your opponent's "public service" is literally what you say when you have nothing nice to say about what they actually did while serving in government.  It's what the victor always says to the vanquished opponent on election night.

But to the fevered Puritans at Kos, that represents a sell-out of the first magnitude.

It's nice to see that poutrages are a bipartisan phenomenon.

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