Reply #235: The NYT is trending rightward, and has been for some time

[MADem]

I read the NYT, and if that is what you call LIBERAL, you and I differ as to the definition of the term. Once upon a time, they were a liberal paper, but now they are wusses whose reporting has gotten sloppy over the years and who recycle shit that has already hit the cable networks. The real strong Pentagon Papers style reporting just is not happening with them anymore. They're all AFRAID. Occasionally incompetent, but mostly AFRAID.

And all Boxer is going to do is point out a couple of issues, like the number of Democrats who waited in line for twelve hours to vote, the number of Democrats who were sent from polling place to polling place, the number of Democrats who were told to wait or come back later because they lacked ballots, the number turned away although they had registered and were wrongfully purged....the old Karl Rove voter suppression tactics that made this election a fucking joke. The GOP districts made voting easier than taking a pee, but the Dems in many places had to climb Mt. Everest on one foot to cast their vote.

No one thinks the debate will change anything, but dammit, it needs to be said. And if "borderline Democrats" leave the party, fuck 'em, they aren't real Democrats. We are not a crew of fair weather types--and I am not scared that anyone will go anywhere. In fact, if anyone crosses the line in 06 or 08, it'll be the GOP, after they too get fucked sideways by the weecowboy. Unemployment has a way of doing that to people....!