On the menu today in the blogosphere

[grantcart]

Appetizer: Cheerleaders no longer acceptable but "pom pom squad" is.

Salad: Sensible, the liberals most outstanding quality, is now a pejorative term.

Main Course: Mistating the President's Afghanistan policy from the campaign and his current one now is Standard Operating Procedure.

Side Dish: Drafting legislation with an eye of what can pass the Senate's inordinate Byzantine process that requires a super super majority is now charachterized as saying the President "can't wave magic wands".

And the soup de jour: Always popular, suggesting in a passive/aggressive voice that people who engage in a daily litany of reflexive robotic bashing of the President as a "corporatist sell out" are to be confused with people who support the Democratic ticket, Democratic Administration but offer principled criticism, and accused of wanting Palin to be President in 2012.

Desert: Inability to carry the argument is to be understood as "being marginalized", something that President hasn't done to Muslims, Allies, the Russians, the Chinese, or any group in the US (having been criticized for being too open to opposing points of view) but is reserved for "leftist bloggers".


Cost: Knowing that the ritual Obama haters impact in the real world is shriveling as the President passes more legislation in a more hostile partisan setting than has been done in 50 years (or more as even the Republicans were inclined to side with FDR much of the time). PRICELESS.

Tip: Even the columnists and pundits who have criticized Obama in the past are adding up the bill and calculating that the President is getting real legislation passed in the real world (90% of a good bill is better that 0% of a great bill)at a significant rate. Maybe some of those clever cartoonists should start watching Rachel Maddow.

[Uzybone]

1. But cartoonists are now our leaders!!

seriously, the "true left" blogosphere has very deep issues.

[berni_mccoy]

2. Well said. DU is sucking more and more each day. It's a Hell's Kitchen failure.

And it needs a good kick in the ass.

[azmouse]

3. It's a sad day for Dems when they get

their "words of wisdom" from cartoonists and comedians as is increasingly happening.

[Tarheel_Dem]

4. Brava!

:applause:

[SeattleGirl]

5. Hehe! This is great, grantcart!

"Maybe some of those clever cartoonists should start watching Rachel Maddow."

Maybe they should!

[firedupdem]

6. Excellent post! n/t

[RoyGBiv]

7. Check please ...

[Number23]

8. Grant, you're killing them.

Cost: Knowing that the ritual Obama haters impact in the real world is shriveling as the President passes more legislation in a more hostile partisan setting than has been done in 50 years (or more as even the Republicans were inclined to side with FDR much of the time). PRICELESS.

Yes I'm about to date myself but, WORD!

I have never gotten the appeal of Tom Tomorrow's toons, but I have to admit the woodchuck in that latest one is adorable.

[RoyGBiv]

10. I'd never actually read one ...

... until a year or so ago.

They're hard on my eyes for some reason and caused my eyes to blur when I looked at one. It wasn't an "I don't like this toon" thing. I didn't know enough about them to like or dislike them.

And when I started reading them because they were posted here so often, I decided my eyeballs were trying to protect my brain.

[FrenchieCat]

9. Not just priceless but sadly predictable.

They'll be more whine if we don't lose by much,
and even more whine if we do in the upcoming election....
cause why in the fuck aren't we all moving to Sweden by now?....
I heard the shit's perfect over there......although the turds are tiny!

[NJmaverick]

11. I salute you!

:patriot:

[Hutzpa]

12. As per cartoonist

they are competing to see who can do the best LaRouche impersonation.

[CBR]

13. Great post! nt

[Peacetrain]

14. Damned if you do and damned if you don't...

anything that is proves a negative point.. is touted to the heavens.. and if refuted.. silence.. Chris Matthews is one of the worst on that

[Cha]

15. The menu sucks because

it was prepared half baked and the ingredients for the dishes are full of rancid whine.

[namahage]

16. Self-delete.

[Cha]

17. That will

suffice.

[grantcart]

18. do you notice something interesting?

[Cha]

19. Yes..what

happened?!

[POAS]

20. Just out of curiosity

how did the posting order get mixed up in this thread?

Date and time stamps do not match up with number assignment and do not appear in the order that they originally did.

Has something been edited out?

[Cha]

21. Yes, quite curious!

[goclark]

22. Ding, Ding, Ding another BOG Winner

[Bobbie Jo]

23. Sadly, the menu doesn't change much

from day to day.

Nicely done.

[HughMoran]

24. Well said grantcart

well said...

[Kind of Blue]

25. Never to late give a KICK!

This is so good it makes me want to change my avatar to a pair of pom-poms.

[Hekate]

26. My appetite is whetted after reading that menu. mmmmm pie ...

Tasty.

Hekate