Right now, all things seem possible again.

[MannyGoldstein]

That feeling will pass; but it's a feeling that I, as an FDR Democrat, have not had in decades.

Excelsior!

[Warpy]

1. What's now possible is talking like an FDR Democrat

and saying the things that have needed to be said for a very long time.

This is the first time since McGovern was trounced that such things can be verbalized without drawing hoots of derision from the dimwits.

Dimwits are getting crushed by "business as usual" along with the rest of us and it's so bad now that even they can't continue to ignore it.

[madinmaryland]

2. Wait, what?? I thought you were a member of the DLC??

[n2doc]

3. Didn't you feel it when the Senate "filibustered" the Fast Track Authority?

Only to be stabbed in the back a few days later….I have the ominous feeling history will repeat itself.

[bvar22]

5. I share that feeling of dread.

It is like KNOWING you are going to get stabbed in the back,
and waiting for the knife to gut you.

[foo_bar]

4. is this faux-naif Manny?

The Thing already passed (happy news-dump Friday!), the only remaining question is which contortions, er, concessions will justify passage of a bill next week. It'll be a really close vote, say 216-213, so all the actors are wearing the right masks for the aw-shucks part afterwards, and we'll be encouraged to channel our energy towards defeating those darn DINO dems who pop up like Whack-A-Mole wherever serious woodchuck issues are at stake, and the right can blow off steam by electing Teabaggers who promise to catch that rascally rabbit once and for all. And yet, no matter whom we elect, there's a permanent majority in support of a permanent regime, only they trade masks at the last second to belabor this reality TV democra-theatre.