Reply #44: K&R... I also think this post is noteworthy as well-

[Poboy]

gratuitous (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-10-10 11:52 PM
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27. Call it a hunch

But he was definitely using the same code words and dog whistles I'm accustomed to hearing from my friends on the reactionary right. Oh, it was gussied up a smidgen, but the plain meaning of his words was there. He was taking dead aim at the folks who wanted a single payer health care system, which his administration bargained away before they ever sat down for the first negotiation. He was making an obvious caricature of folks who think we should spend a little more on butter and a little less on guns. Seriously, is there anyone making a case for eliminating the Pentagon? If there is, why didn't Gibbs name that person? Instead, he was disguising the administration's own ineptitude in making the case for trimming defense with a straw man about eliminating the Pentagon. "That's not reality," says Mr. Gibbs. The one true thing he said: He's making arguments against positions that aren't being advanced in what the rest of us would call reality.

Like I said, I'm pretty accustomed to this kind of nonsense out of the likes of Fox, CNN, and MSNBC. The couch it in slightly different terms, but it all boils down to hippie punching. And now we get to see the spectacle of the loyal legions telling us to sit down like good little boys and girls. Gibbs didn't really say what he said: He was talking about "professional" leftists! What are there, like three in the entire nation? He couldn't just call them?

No, he was talking directly to me and others dissatisfied with the chasm between the Obama administration's brave words and wimpy deeds. Instead of showing leadership, and rallying public opinion (fully 2/3 of the American people supported single payer, which had the added bonus of saving billions of dollars), the administration has turtled on issue after issue, letting the reactionaries set the tone and terms of discussion. And now the President's Press Secretary has the nerve to say we want the impossible.

That is why you fail.

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