Lame times two

I think what's frustrating about traditional media is how shallow the majority of the commentary is--I mean, for Christ's sake, putting thought into it is their fucking job and it truly seems beyond them.

Not sure what happened to Rochelle Riley--at one point during the height of the Bush/Cheney years she was leading the charge for impeachment--but she seems to have joined the Kumbaya movement (it'll all be okay if we just work together in a bipartisan yada, yada, yada).  I would be the last person to defend President Obama, but Riley's charges against Obama are just flat weak (other than the he was supposed to be different but he isn't).  I think there were very few Democrats--or Independents for that matter--who voted for Obama with the belief that he was leading the way for a third party.  We voted for him to return us to the Democratic Party values we hold dear--Social Security, Medicare, pro union, better standard of living for the Middle Class, taking care of the poor.  We may have seen what wasn't actually there--as Digby has noted often--but we weren't voting for an end to partisan gridlock. (Basically because there is no partisan gridlock--it's fucking republican gridlock).  The Dems--led by Nancy Pelosi--have plenty of ideas for getting this country back on its feet, but republicans have blocked us at every turn.  People voted for Obama because he wasn't espousing the bullshit of George W. Bush, and we'd all seen where that had led us.  In fact, I'd say the main reason Obama has failed to get his message across is because he's been too middle of the road, too bipartisan.  The boldest leaders, who have helped the poor and middle class the most (FDR and LBJ) didn't give two shits about bipartisanship--they took care of us first and everyone else could go to hell.  I know the Free Press' few readers are mostly dinosaur conservatives anymore, but Riley's piece was just pathetic.

Wonk had another of his half-ass pieces, too--Christ, this guy is just mailing it in anymore.  While I'll freely admit I was in the "Anthony Weiner Should Resign Because He's Hurting the Cause" camp, I thought, as I did with David Vitter and John Ensign and Arnold Schwarzenegger, that it was much ado about nothing.  There is absolutely nothing wrong with these people making our laws (or, if there is, it is based on Liberal ideas vs. conservative ideas, not their sex lives)--if we applied Wonk's logic to the business world, my guess is that about half of our business leaders would be out of a job due to their sexual pecadilloes.  They are perverts, not idiots.  And what's really sad is that with all the problems this country has, Wonk actually wasted a column (and my fucking time, thank you very much) on drivel such as this.

In a somewhat related note, there are people in this world who are funny, and there are people who are not.  Wonk is obviously in the latter category--if you ain't got it, don't force it.

Peace,
emaycee