Some of Jon Stewart’s best work in a long, long time as he excoriates Democrats, Obama, and Marcia Marla Martha Coakley for killing Uncle Teddy’s legacy before his body’s even full decomposed:
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The best part is knowing, that beneath the veneer of comedy, that this is really how Jon Stewart feels…except he’s pissed.
“Let me see if I have this straight. You need to replace perhaps the most beloved liberal in the history of the Senate with a candidate that believes Curt Schilling is a Yankee fan. Because if this lady loses, the health care reform bill that the beloved late senator considered his legacy will die,” Stewart said. “And the reason it will die is because if Coakley loses, Democrats will only have then an 18-vote majority in the Senate. Which is more than George W. Bush ever had in the Senate when he did whenever the f**k he wanted.”
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Hopefully Coakley wins.
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Nope. Too bad for you, Nancy-boy.
Coakley going down harder than Monica Lewinsky on a fat old President.
Welcome to Obama’s Lame Duck Presidency.
It will be funny if Coakley wins. Conservatives will be choking on nut sacks for 3 years.
So, anonymous liberal from Dallas, do you like them shaved or not, clean or vinegary?
O the good old parochial texans will have a field day with browns win. Im ashamed that my state voted for such a dimwit. Massachusettsites dont realize how good they have it with universal health care and low poverty rates until they travel to texas which has the highest rate of uninsured, where poverty is rampant, and slums decorate the sides of the highways.
Oh yeah, they sure have it good up in the bay state.
Source.
With such a good thing going, shame on them for not voting for a Senator that would increase their tax burden even further.
/s
Yeah, we in Texas have it good in comparison, and the independent voters of Taxachusetts have just said they have had enough.
Wingnuts’ capacity for obtuse cluelessness never ceases to amaze. Hidden in plain sight within Stewart’s parody is the central thesis that there’s no such thing as a “super” majority until and unless someone calls the other side’s bluff on a filibuster. Remember Barry Goldwater 3 weeks after JFK’s death? Yeah, that worked out real well for him. LBJ called his bluff and the filibuster dropped like a lead balloon.
Dems in MA stayed home because Obama is caving on everything his base supported him for, and if he continues to accomodate the right he’ll lost the foundation of his party and cede his office to the radical reprobates he soundly defeated in 2008. Dems didn’t elect Obama to preserve the status quo and monied interests who’ve controlled DC for decades, and if he’s going to allow unchecked the corporatist GOP to to call him on that while masquerading as populists, then he’s useless to his party and his country.
Uh, huh. You (and Madcow & Olby) keep telling yourself that the problem was that Obama/Reid/Pelosi weren’t “progressive enough.”
Then check back with us in November, and let us know how that works out for you.
November will be dirty for the left. The “backlash” will happen, as it has to both parties over and over again for the past 60 years.
Nothing new.
Leaning to the right like he’s doing didn’t get Obama elected. His popularity didn’t start slipping until he caved on single-payer/public option/expanded medicare/transparent negotiations with Big Pharma/Blue Cross, et al. As those promises go, so go his political fortunes. Scott Brown is Obama’a consolation prize for all his triangulation and efforts to appease the dishonest brokers on the right. For all his IQ points, he easily fell into the same trap set for Clinton by Newtie.
As the man who held the seat Scott Brown will be occupying, after losing to Carter in 1980:
“If the Democrats run for cover, if we become pale carbon copies of the opposition, we will lose — and deserve to lose,…The last thing this country needs is two Republican parties.”
Gee, if only Martha Coakley knew…
What evidence is there to indicate that he’s been “progressive enough?”
I am surprised how easily you buy the MSM line of conventional wisdom, i.e., the “Left” is holding Obama back. Let’s explore the reasoning behind this claim:
The Left wanted a single-payer system, then settled for a public option, then an opt-out public option, then Medicare expansion — only to get none of it, instead being handed a bill that forces every American to buy health insurance from the private insurance industry. Nor was it “the Left” — but rather corporatist Democrats like Evan Bayh and Lanny Davis — who cheered for the hated Wall Street bailout; blocked drug re-importation; are stopping genuine reform of the financial industry; prevented a larger stimulus package to lower unemployment; refuse to allow programs to help Americans with foreclosures; supported escalation in Afghanistan (twice); and favor the same Bush/Cheney terrorism policies of indefinite detention, military commissions, and state secrets.
The idea that an administration run by Barack Obama and Rahm Emanuel and staffed with centrists, Wall Street mavens, and former Bush officials — and a Congress beholden to Blue Dogs and Lieberdems — has been captive “to the Left” is so ridiculous on its face that everyone should be too embarrassed to utter it.
You’ve got your head so far up your leftist butt, you haven’t got the foggiest clue what is going on!
So STFU you miserable liar!
Great quote, Pat. That is exactly what is going on.
BLAAAH-HAAAH-HAAA-HA!
Now we have steven/ryan/mike/tol praising a comment that pat/mohammed made.
Two nutjobs have found each other, and it must be love.
As for quotes that Teddy made that are noteworthy, this one is most memorable.