I’ll say this for George Bush: you’d never have caught him frantically negotiating against himself to take the meat out of a signature legislative initiative just because his approval ratings had a bad summer. Can you imagine Bush and Karl Rove allowing themselves to be paraded through Washington on a leash by some dimwit Republican Senator of a state with six people in it the way the Obama White House this summer is allowing Max Baucus (favorite son of the mighty state of Montana) to frog-march them to a one-term presidency?
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Sen. Bingaman is one of the folks helping Sen. Baucus out, in case you forgot…
Again, to borrow from Taibbi:
“To quote Method Man’s Calvin ‘Cheese’ Wagstaff character from The Wire, ‘This is some shameless shit right here.'”
If you don’t watch Bill Maher, the other Friday he had a prescription that Democrats so desperately need: “Grow-a-cet” Another was “Hope-it-or”.
There is a new, scary condition sweeping the country too. It’s called “Town Hall Face”. Symptoms include red face, bulging eyes, flairing nostrils, & jaws locked open. Victims also exhibit a Tourettes-like affliction of screaming paranoia