It’d one thing if they had anything to be triumphalist about. But why are they cheering the primary victory of someone who’s doomed to go down in flames in the general?

WH knows that the rank-and-file are unhappy with union money being spent on losing campaigns. This was one reason Anna Burger didn’t get the top job at SEIU. WH is hoping to stoke that discontent with these kinds of remarks to get new leadership that is more compliant with the Democratic agenda.

That’s my take anyway.

I wish they got that excited about Republicans losing elections …

FYI Jane you already used the lipstick metaphor once in the last 24 hours. You’re better than that ;)

I noticed that Robert Gibbs couldn’t quite suppress the urge to sneer when a reporter asked him about the comment and he basically affirmed it 100%, although in somewhat more diplomatic terms.

No surprise really. Predatory free-marketeers & corrupt disaster capitalists like Obama, Rahm, & Larry detest labor unions and one of their primary goals is to destroy them completely forever.

Righteous rant, Ed!

Together these two show all the class of a junior high prom queen scrawling obscenities about her runner up across the mirror of the girl’s bathroom.

damn, that’s good.

Ed doesn’t strike me as the brightest bulb in the pack, but I like him when he gets mad.

I am sure they would have conducted themselves in a more gracious and honorable fashion were they not so occupied with stopping that oil gusher in the gulf of mexico, running two or more illegal wars, begging to borrow from the chinese, while jumping how high their corporate and likud masters say. Really, it’s not that they are disingenuous two faced corporate puppets or greed driven narcissists, they are just kinda busy right now.

Conrad C. Elledge

Y’know, the trash-talking and gloating by the “senior” white house asshole, whomever he is, did us a favor, if we’ll cop to it.

That’s how Obama and his people think. It is.

If progressives needed any straw to break the corporatist camel’s back, in order to start gearing up NOW, to do everything we can to turn these shitbirds out of office, this should be it.

bmull said @ 4:

FYI Jane you already used the lipstick metaphor once in the last 24 hours. You’re better than that ;)

Well, if Jane set the precedent, I’ll again recycle a comment I posted earlier today, since “primary-the-rascals-out” did not work out as well as we hoped:

I kind of like the idea of a third party called Citizens party or Commonwealth party. Rather than staking out a spot on the right-center-left spectrum, we would highlight that it is of, by and for “citizens” as contrasted with “consumers”; focused on the commonwealth of citizens rather than corporate profits.

I suspect those who are skeptical of a third party succeeding are correct. But historically, new parties came along and replaced parties that have become marginalized — such as the Republicans elbowing the empty shell of the Whigs and turning them into dust.

The scenario of the Republicans marginalized and replaced on the “right” by a thoroughly corporatist Democratic party may be somewhat more realistic. The “left” would be open for a citizen-oriented, commonwealth-driven party. Defined in this way, it could appeal not only to progressives, but provide a genuine and positive alternative to the muddled incoherence of teabagging.

Appealing to the disenfranchised of both the “right” and the “left” could be seen as “centrist” I suppose. I like to think it would be based on principles that are relevant across the political spectrum, rather than defined by a set of particular stands on specific issues.

/recycle

Finally, in Jane’s defense, she did not actually use the word “lipstick” in this post… ;)