I feel an overwhelming urge to apologize this morning.
That’s because I harbored fears that if the Democrats took control of one or both Houses of Congress that the left would erupt with a string of bloodcurdling threats and juvenile “I told you so’s” which would sour the post-election atmosphere and contribute to partisan warfare.
I am so glad my fears were unfounded…mostly:
Suck it, Reich Wingers!! Cos now that means we’ll have some real honest-to-god oversight in Washington. Subpoena powers! Go, John Conyers!! Give em hell!!
In case you missed the significance of John Conyers being cheered on, the ultra liberal conspiracy mongering Congressman from Michigan will begin hearings leading the impeachment of President Bush in January.
Oh he won’t call them “impeachment” hearings. That would be breaking his promise to Republicans and the American people not to hold those kind of hearings. He will call them something like “Hearings to Determine How Much Money Was Made By Bush And Cheney When They Started The War In Iraq To Enrich Their Friends At Haliburton.”
Or perhaps he will call them “Hearings on the President’s Role In The 9/11 Attacks.” That one sounds sexier.
Nancy Pelosi sure sounded all sweet and grandmotherly, didn’t she?
“Tonight is a great victory for the American people,” said House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, who is poised to become the first female speaker of the House. “The American people voted for a new direction.”She vowed “civility and bipartisanship” but confronted the president over his Iraq policy: “Mr. President, we need a new direction in Iraq.”
That kind of “bi-partisan” feeling was on display here:
YOU LOSE, JERKS!! YOU LIGGITY, LIGGITY, LIGGITY LOOOOOOOOOSE!! L-O-S-E, LOSE, LOSE, LOSE! L-O-S-E, LOSE, LOSE, LOSE!!
Our Depression-era grandparents could have told us this was coming. After all, the GOP has driven us into precisely the same ditch it ran them into in 1929, fueled by the same ignorance and graft, flaunting the same blatant disregard for any sense of the common good, pillaging our vast accumulated social capital for its members’ own private enrichment. Now that the devastating results are coming clear to all but that last deluded 30%, we need to make the words “conservative” and “Republican” forever synonymous with this mess.
We need to teach it in our history classes, and tell the tales to our own grandchildren. This, children, is what happens when you abandon liberalism. This is what’s happened every damned time we’ve ever handed conservatives the keys and let them drive. Don’t let them kid you. It’s not about two different views of democracy; it’s about whether your democracy lives or dies.
Uh…don’t worry Davey. When the time comes, all of us conservatives will march meekly and in a nice, neat line to the re-education camps and gas chambers. Just don’t tell us they’re “showers.” That’s been done before.
Or if you’re lucky, maybe some real attractive authoritarian figure (you know how much we conservatives adore authoritarian figures) will come along and fill our glasses with Kool Aid (the real stuff) and conservatives will happily drink so that we can all go to heaven, sing songs, and play with Jesus.
All defeats have silver linings. But I think this moonbat (or “Moonchild”) might be a wee bit too relieved for her own good:
That’s right. Something extraordinary happened tonight. A nation voted and decisively halted the Fascist juggernaut in tracks.
We will never know just how close we were to ruin thanks to you Kos, to DailyKos, to the netroots, to the grassroots, to Democrats, and to Americans.
But stopping an authoritarian machine in its tracks is just one battle in the long struggle we face ahead.
Sieg Heil, baby. Just don’t mess with my Hitler doll or I’ll brain ya.
And let’s make sure we promote unity across the nation this election night. Sectionalism has no place in America, right? RIGHT?
What we talked about earlier this week is holding up: the Old Confederacy is the big loser tonight, relegated to the minority in the House. There is no reason, none, nada, zilch, to allow legislation in the House to be held hostage to Southern authoritarian Theocrats and racists anymore. Buh-bye.
Does this mean I can’t fly “The Stars and Bars” on Jefferson Davis’ birthday?
To my fellow conservatives, I say fear not. First of all, most of these brand spanking new Democratic Congressmen are not wine and Brie cheese liberals. Most of them – the overwhelming majority of them – are actual moderates who espouse some conservative positions. Many hold conservative values. They are the future of the Democratic party – not the idiots, the drunkards, the insufferable louts who populate the liberal blogosphere and much of Congress.
Secondly, many of the seats the GOP lost tonight are still in very red territory. If the Republicans can go out and do what the Democrats did this time – recruit outstanding, 1st tier candidates to challenge these extremely vulnerable newcomers, a switch of 20 seats in 2008 would be very doable.
Two years will pass before you know it. Let’s make the best of the time to reform the party and renew our commitment to core conservative principles.
3:50 am
It’d be totally un-juvenile of you to also mention some of the spiteful, hangdog sore-loserism coming from places like Little Green Footballs, where the main reaction of commenters to tonight’s elections seems to be a sort of petulant rhetorical flipping over of the Gameboard of American Life, i.e.:
I quite. I not going to vote again. It’s time I gave up on this political bullshit. I just hope the nuke attack comes soon. Let it be on the East Coast where it belongs.
3:55 am
I am very happy I did not quote from the comments section at Kos, DU, Firedog, or other places where they want to line Republicans up against the wall and shoot them.
Commenters on any site – right or left – are meaningless. That’s why I quoted from bloggers only.
What’s juvenile about reporting on the childishness of the left? I think its amusing as I’m sure most of my conservative readers will agree. You don’t like me holding up a mirror then work to change the dynamic. Don’t come here spouting baloney about commenters at LGF.
4:53 am
Woke up early to find we did lose control of the house and waiting for the results of the senate, may hear before I have to go into school to sub since I have an sat radio in my car.
I just hope some of these winners are true bluedog dems but I an’t holdin my breath cuz nancy, harry, john and charlie won’t let em get outta line.
I just hope we can avoid a crisis until 08 but Rick, I’m really scared about our safety. I can bear the crowing that we’ll hear 24/7 but my fear about my country is slowly making me wanna call me doc for a refill of my xanax.
7:59 am
What’s juvenile about reporting on the childishness of the left? I think its amusing as I’m sure most of my conservative readers will agree. You don’t like me holding up a mirror then work to change the dynamic.
Hell no. I’m a childish prick. But y’know what? You still liggity-liggity LOST LOST LOST. BWAH-HA-HA!!
Do you like how I use those exclamation points? Doesn’t it remind you of a 10 year old little girl? I also play with dolls and have sleepovers with the guys.
Do you think I’m strange?
8:25 am
[...] Earlier in the evening, Rick Moran chastised me for being childish and juvenile. And while I’m certainly very very guilty as charged, I would posit that if Rick had to put up with six years of hearing his political foes say that a victory for his party was a victory for mass murderers, I’m sure he’d feel a certain giddy satisfaction in seeing them ousted from power as well. [...]
8:57 am
Commenters on any site – right or left – are meaningless. That’s why I quoted from bloggers only.
That statement would mean something if it was made by you in a blog post. As it is … meaningless.
9:10 am
One of the reasons you lost is because most people are sick to death of pants pissing “Drewsmoms” and “CharlesJohnsons” who think they’re 5 seconds from speaking Arabic and wearing Burkhas. Basically people are tired of living in fear of a few psycho pissants on the other side of the planet like you do.
9:13 am
I’ll remember that when I’mm digging you out from underneath that collapsed building – down as a result of an attack by those “pissants” way, way, way, way, way, over on the other side of the world. The one’s who never heard of airplanes or telephones and who live in caves and eat goat shit.
Those pissants?
9:19 am
Uh…don’t worry Davey.
It says “Sara Robinson” at the top of that post, so I think you probably got the wrong guy there.
9:38 am
There’s a difference between fighting terrorism and living in constant fear over it – that’s the point you continue to not understand.
10:16 am
This could be good. Pelosi and the Dems ran on uniting the country, now they have to deliver. Bush’s first act of unity was the education bill. He wanted testing, charter schools and money for charter schools. As a uniter, he accepted testing, no charter schools, no charter school money but money for improving test scores. He got 1 out of 3 and picked up 1 from the Dems.
Let’s see if the Dems practice what they preach….ah, hell, we all know that the Dems will do nothing like what Bush did. Who needs unity when you’re so damn smart you just know you’re right?
10:30 am
I’ll remember that when I’mm digging you out from underneath that collapsed building – down as a result of an attack by those “pissants†way, way, way, way, way, over on the other side of the world. The one’s who never heard of airplanes or telephones and who live in caves and eat goat shit.
Do you plan your budget on winning the lottery? If not, why the hell do you plan your life and base your politicial worldview on the least statistically probable way to die?
11:11 am
This administration did nothing to fight terrorism, it made matters much worse while playing to your fears and longing for revenge against arabs in general. Virtually no practical steps have actually been taken to protect this nation because Bush couldn’t keep his eye on the ball.
Terrorism is indeed a real danger. More so now than ever as Iraq has radicalized the entire Arab world and is used as a recruitment tool. You keyboard commandos just don’t get it. I have spent a lot of time in the Mideast and have seen the change on the streets. Once respected and admired, America is now feared and distrusted. And as you wingnuts have demonstrated, fear can lead to irrational actions.
Frankly, I don’t think the Dems can do much to stop what has already been set in motion, but at least the world will know that we’re not ALL completely insane.
1:46 pm
Of course there are those on the “winning” side who gloat, and it’s never pretty, smart, or even called for. It’s just childish and counter-productive.
As one of Liberal bent, I wish I had a dime for every “Four More Years” I saw in big, bold caps all over the forums after the ‘04 elections. Now, that’s some wealth I could really re-distribute!
2:09 pm
Ricky, Ricky, come on Ricky. Come on back to us. No one wants to line you cons up against a wall and shoot you. We just want you to live your weird, prudish lifestyles behind closed doors. And allow us the privacy and freedom to do the same.
The fact that I like an audience when I masturbate kind of puts a crimp in doing ANYTHING behind closed doors. I especially like it when the little girls squeal after I show them my Mr. Tom-Tom. It turns me on something fierce.
Do you think I’m weird?
(Please send me a pic – maybe of you at the beach?)
4:07 pm
Hate to break it to you Ricky, but we’s partying over this in nyc, too. And will continue to do so for a couple days more.
Been a long time comin, and the sour taste our celebrations leave in your mouth seems like sweet, sweet candy to me.
I know this is silly and juvenile of me. Actually, it’s really, really, stupid. But we Democrats aren’t very grown up and besides, what can you expect from a moron like me?
Oh btw – you rock!
5:45 pm
On top of all of that, the DNC is spamming people. I have proof. How appropriate that the party of Howard Dean (whose name is on the mail), Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid would sink to the same level as scum like Alan Ralsky to make their point.
7:26 pm
Hehe were in yr cngress revrsing yur legislationz
1!11
7:42 pm
It is with the greatest of pleasure that I deleted your comment. As it disappeared into the ether, it reminded me of a piece of shit going down the toilet.
8:55 pm
When the time comes, all of us conservatives will march meekly and in a nice, neat line to the re-education camps and gas chambers. Just don’t tell us they’re “showers.†That’s been done before.
Bwaaaahahahahhahhahahahhahahha!
God, I love the smell of self-pity in the morning! I should know. When you guys won in 2004 I didn’t come out of my room for a week and my mom almost had to take me to the hospital. She said as long as I lived at home I had to follow HER rules. Can you imagine?
10:34 pm
Time to start strategizing for 08’. I have a plan to “nationalize” the Cold Cash Jefferson scandal to the advantage of all republican challengers in 08’
12:12 am
Oh, Ricky. That was very funny. I am soooooooooo angry you altered my comment. Really and truly. Raaaar. See how angry I am?
I can also make a sound like a cow. Would you like to hear me moooooooo? I can also quack like a duck and squeak like a marmoset…SQUEAK! SQUEAK! SQUEAK! SQUEAK! SQUEAK!
You’re so sexy. And now I get to see if you’re up and watch this post disappear.
Brad:
What on earth are you talking about? Have you suffered a breakdown and regressed even further back into childhood than you are already?
1:43 pm
It’s fun watching the Right Wing try to frame what just happened in a way that somehow repudiates the fact that the country just opted for liberal government.
1. The Democrats didn’t win, the Conservatives lost.
This is a good one. Then theres…
2. The Democrats didn’t really win, because they had to field conservative Democrats.
Ha ha! Nice try. And my favorite:
3. We’ll be back in ‘08.
No, I think we gave you clowns a shot. Let you have everything you ever wanted. Stacking the Supreme Court, White House, rip up the Constitution, whatever. If Conservatism was a valid and effective concept, you had 6 years to prove it.
And you virtually destroyed the country. For the record, we did learn a very good lesson: Our government has built-in checks and balances and one party should not dominate the entire infrastructure. That said, it’s time to punish you guys a bit because you’ve caused an awful lot of damage.
Oh, and one more thing: Speaker of the House Dogface.
6:30 pm
Y’know, Ricky, the harder you try, the harder I laugh.
7:24 pm
I think it’s past time for a little crowing. I have had to put up with some of the least educated, mysanthropic, myopic, ill-informed, delusional people explain to me that war opposers were terrorist sympathizers. I have been told that my opposition to listening to a conversation without a warrant is tantamount to preventing the government from listening to terrorists. I have been told by some of the most partisan water carriers ever to have lived that it isn’t torture/abuse/murder because we simply aren’t as bad as terrorists/Hussein, and out heart was in the right place.
Through all of this, I have had to listen to people like you, Rick, tell me that while all this sand is being kicked in my face, I should be civil. That I’m dragging down the discourse. Ann Coulter can call widows “shrieking harpies” in a bestselling book, and on national tv, and she’s being an entertainer, but my calling someone like you a moron in a blog post is bringing down the national discourse.
Well, Rick, let me tell you something. You, and those like you, have worked very hard to bring discourse to this level, so now we’ll see how you like it for a while. I would like to see the House paper the White House for every scrap of information it can. I look forward to slapping down people like you who whine about getting on with the business of governing, with a recent history lesson on oversight (or lack thereof in the Republican Congress). And, if there is guilt on the part of Administration officials, proveable beyond a reasonable doubt, I look forward to seeing the men and women who planned and brought to fruition the War in Iraq go to prison.
7:35 pm
You’ll have to forgive me if i’m not sympathetic to how chagrined you seem to be over the election outcome and the displays of unrestrained schadenfreude from some bloggers and commenters that have come as a result, but after listening to the unfiltered bleatings of people who live in some twilight of perpetual panic as though al Qaeda was going to unleash waves of exploding gay Mexicans over our borders to take away our guns and teach evolution to our embryos unless we scrap the Constitution in favor of old-fashioned, old-Testament values, i’m just not prepared to regard most of the authority cultists passing themselves off as conservatives with a strsight face
7:54 pm
OP:
You visit this site once and accuse me of a lot of crap. What an idiot. You don’t know this site, you don’t know me, you don’t know squat.
It takes a towering amount of ignorance to make such sweeping generalizations without a shred of proof to back it up.
And only 2 year olds gloat. The fact that you openly admit it pegs you for who you are – an immature creep.
7:56 pm
Mr. Shit er…Crap:
“after listening to the unfiltered bleatings of people who live in some twilight of perpetual panic as though al Qaeda was going to unleash waves of exploding gay Mexicans over our borders to take away our guns and teach evolution to our embryos unless we scrap the Constitution in favor of old-fashioned, old-Testament values,
Hysterical. Wildly exaggerated. So over the top as to be on another planet.
If that’s really what you think you’re sick. If you’re just trying to sound clever, you’re not. If you’re trying to make a point, just what the hell is it?
10:54 pm
“who live in some twilight of perpetual panic as though al Qaeda was going to unleash waves of exploding gay Mexicans over our borders to take away our guns and teach evolution to our embryos unless we scrap the Constitution in favor of old-fashioned, old-Testament values”
That group is just as numerous on the Right as terrorist sympathizers are on the Left (that is to say they are there, but a very miniscule minority).
3:19 am
Wow Rick, I thought Crapture’s post was damn flippin funny. “......waves of exploding, gay Mexicans over our borders….teach evolution to our embryos…”. That’s good stuff. Myself, I kept waiting for Santorum to propose giving the vote to fetuses.
But what the hell. We got tired of conservatives and Bush supporters calling us terrorist appeasers. Your side has made a mess of my country. You deserve to have your influence diminished and your party out of power. Nothing has been more stunning in politics than the hypocrisy of the new century conservative except the cut and run liberals who now have the power. You just wait. Once we get rolling, America is going to wish that the GOP still had the Congress. And al-Qaeda, bless ‘em, will pray to Allah 5 times a day, thanking him for giving Democrats a say in national security matters in the United States.
5:23 am
Shawn Said:
10:54 pm
That group is just as numerous on the Right as terrorist sympathizers are on the Left (that is to say they are there, but a very miniscule minority).
Ummm… the ones Crapture is referring to have formed vigilante groups and have run in Republican primaries for Federal office. Miniscule minority? Ask Michelle Malkin about that miniscule minority among the Republicans obsessed with the enemy within and terra-ists sneaking in across the border.
and Rick, this isn’t the first time I’ve been here, but you really do come across as the junior high hall monitor pretentiously putting on airs of authoritay and respectabilitay and maturitay that your peers deservedly mock, if not to your face then behind your back.
But keep on Rick’ing in the free (Democratic) world, because it’s a funnier place with your unintentional humour and ya make us laugh.
5:29 am
Yeah…but at least I can spell.
that your peers deservedly mock, if not to your face then behind your back.
This is fascinating. I’d be interested to know how you became aware of this. Or are you, in addition to being the absolute worst speller ever to comment on this site, the biggest bullshitter also?
12:19 am
I’m glad I checked back in.
I realize South Park is too immature for your highly refined tastes, Ricky, but one would think you’d have some basic awareness of the jokes they’ve made that have become a part of pop culture.
Which is to say, yet again, you’ve managed to make an even bigger ass of yerself. Well done.
7:59 am
What comment are you referencing?
And I watch south park occasionally but as far as “pop culture” is concerned – toxic and polluted as it is – I could give a fig.
And I guess it says something about YOU that you take pride in wallowing in the muck. Go for it. It suits you.
4:27 pm
Either you’re a brilliant parody or quite an idiot, Ricky.
But I’ll keep playing and explain.
The person whose spelling you tried to slag meant to spell them wurdz that way. It’s a 5-6 year old joke from South Park, back when it was actually funny.
I’d act surprised you don’t get it, as it’s a really effing commonly reused joke, but, hey, you’re proud not to know. Why would you want to be up on pop culture references from the previous century anyway?
5:19 pm
Rick,
To bad you don’t keep track of the stuff you write. I thought there were archives for this stuff.
How about this attack on the left:
http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2006/02/09/in-defense-of-common-decency/
Which lacks a single mention of the same types of escapades on the right.
And I particularly love this paranoia extravaganza, for which your sole link, as back up, is to a Captain’s Quarters story on tire slashing.
http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2006/06/02/make-every-vote-countor-not/
I find you to be one of those “damning with faint praise” conservatives, Rick. You toss in some off the cuff compliment to the author of a piece, and then proceed, often with vitriol, to explain why they are wrongheaded, ignorant (if not stupid), and arrogant. (Odd, that last, given your propensities.)
You are precisely what you purport to be opposed to, only with a thinner veneer of disdain for your fellow Americans. Well done.
7:33 pm
[...] Rick Moran continues his post-election spaz over at Right Wing Nut House, chastising us and Firedoglake, as representatives of the Democratic Party (?!), for a lack of bipartisanship and civility, and then losing his last grip on the rail and trying to lecture David Neiwert on the meaning of American democacy. […] Now that the devastating results are coming clear to all but that last deluded 30%, we need to make the words “conservative†and “Republican†forever synonymous with this mess. [...]
8:26 pm
“I’ll remember that when I’mm digging you out from underneath that collapsed building – down as a result of an attack by those “pissants†way, way, way, way, way, over on the other side of the world. The one’s who never heard of airplanes or telephones and who live in caves and eat goat shit.”
Do you mean the notorious UBL? The one FBI spokesperson Rex Tomb admitted they don’t have enough evidence to indict for the crimes of 9-11? Yet the US invaded two countries, killed 650,000 civillians, 3000 US troops, and spent 330 billion dollars (mol, so far) chasing his ghost? That cavedweller?
Do you mean a building like WTC #7? A 47 story steel framed skscraper not hit by an airplane and yet collapsed into it’s own footprint at 5:20 pm on 9-11? The one Lucky Larry Silverstien admitted was “pulled” down on purpose?
Yeah, sure. Bring a shovel. And hit me over the head with it willya? I know I’m just a conspiracy mongering, fascist schmuck but maybe if you whack me upside the head, it will knock some sense into me.
Then again, maybe it will only dent the shovel since my head is made of granite.
8:39 pm
I’ll remember that when I’mm digging you out from underneath that collapsed building – down as a result of an attack by those “pissants” way, way, way, way, way, over on the other side of the world. The one’s who never heard of airplanes or telephones and who live in caves and eat goat shit.
Those pissants?
I’m living in a major metropolitan area. I’ve put my money where my mouth is. I’m not going to live in fear and jump at shadows, even if you want me to. That would be a pretty pathetic existence. As far as I’m concerned, the terrorists win by terrorizing, not by killing. And I refuse to be terrorized, by them, by you, or by our government.
But I do wet my pants when you get mad, Rick. You are all powerful and I tremble at the prospect of being pilloried by your razor sharp wit and towering intellect.
It really is that simple. You can go on and on about how we ought to be scared, but we aren’t. Sorry. This ain’t London and this ain’t the Blitz. People have held their head high and lived through much scarier times and if you can’t then you’re a great big pussy.
And since I love pussies, would you please send me a pair of your dirty underwear?
1:07 am
Since the slaughter, er, election, it’s been much more fun to read the Right wing sites than the Lefty ones, because the Right apparently believes that the future of this country now lies in something called “bipartisanship.” This new concept seemingly involves giving some respect to the views of the minority party, and not, for example, automatically assuming that they are all treasonous traitors.
Except me of course. I love al-Qaeda. I have a picture of Osama in my bedroom. My mom told me to take it down ,that she wouldn’t have such a thing in her house.
Living with your folks can be a drag. Maybe when I’m 35 I’ll make be a manager at the 7-11 where I work and then I’ll be able to afford my very own place.
What a good idea! Why, I wonder, have they just now thought of it?
11:14 am
Hi Rick,
Does the irony not bother you of chastising “The Left” for being childish gloaters, and then in your comments immediately proceeding to change (unattributed!) the comments of everyone who disagrees with you—into juvenile crap like “I love al-Qaeda. I have a picture of Osama in my bedroom.”? Actually almost everyone (except for the conspiracy nut) had good points.
4:49 pm
This comment-editing is possibly the creepiest thing I’ve ever seen on a blog.
4:28 pm
Yeah, i can’t help but laugh at the new calls from Republicans for “bipartisanship” now that they are the legislative minority.
Especially when, for the last six years under the Repub majority, “bipartisanship” has been a euphemism for “You better sound off that you love, worship and adore George ‘By god’ Bush or we’ll use every bit of media access we have to paint you as a Jesus-hating hummus-eating, latte-drinking islamo-homo-nazi-commie-fascist-evolutionist in front of that very vocal (if not always very articulate) collective chicken-littledom we generally consider to be our base.”
5:02 pm
“Hysterical and wildly over the top” are exactly the point, there, Little Ricky.
as in the last six years have seen endless streams of hysterical, chicken little conservatives shrieking that the scary brown people are coming to blow us up or make us gay and anyone who says other wise must be some kind of terrorist appeaser, satan-worshipper or other such nonsense.
I just distilled it all into one appropriately ridiculous conceit and let it fly.
6:58 am
hello, it’s good idea