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These people are never happy.

Hillary Clinton’s Edge in a Donald Trump-Centric Race Has Liberals Wary

It is a shitty headline but the story is about the malcontents, mostly Bernie followers, the so-called "progressives" who are unhappy that Clinton is trying to hit the central line, veering into Trump country to take the unhappy GOoPers into her electoral landslide.

Hey, she wants a mandate. And that is how you do it.

These people always show up as the whiners and lose their own message in their self pity and politically "correct" coloring of every issue.

And, I think, they are still mourning Sander's flop and will try to make the other Demos pay for it.

It pisses me off. It is over gang. Grab your jocks (if any), pull up your socks and help get behind the mandated election.

Believe me. You will need the landslide and Clinton when the still Republican Congress shows up next year. I am not believing that any Presidential landslide will take enough House seats to do the jobs that need to be done.

More about that landslide? Here is the polling sage Nate Cohn

Labels: Hillary Clinton, lefty fringe, professional left

Our wounded man is Bernie Sanders.

Eminently unqualified for the job but persistent in his belief that he could do something if he got a chance.

Look, Bernie. You are too old, too left and too late.

I admire his spunk at his age. He has a lot more than me. All that electioneering crap.

But he has to do it.

Down from the clouds and into the street.

I do not want what he is peddling either.

I have seen this old New England righteousness before only in a different style and perhaps a different leaning.

He is a hand wringer and a sob sister.

I have nothing against Socialists. It is just that there is not one of them that has any idea of how to run the machinery of government.

They are caught up in political theory, their religion.

Not unlike the deeply religious who are so stuck on the piety that they can't do anyone any good and see a world of sin rather than a world of opportunity.

So I do not want him either.

I would rather go with another oldster who knows how to do it. Joe Biden. I am still holding his cup ready. It holds my toothbrush for now. It may yet get another outing. But he says "no". But I looked in his eye and saw a reservation.

Labels: democratic whack jobs, Democrats, lefty fringe, professional left

Have I mentioned that Elizabeth Warren gives me a big fat pain in my butt?

I am tired of her yap. I am tired of her ads. I am tired of her tirades.

Sit down Lizzie and do some real work for a change. It is not easy to turn the ship and people don't want to hear this incessant nagging.

There I said it and the earth has not split open and swallowed me up.

I have been accused as being misogynistic. So be it.

It is not that she is a woman. It is that she is an incessantly negative voice. I want to see something positive.

And quit pointing your finger.

She is a member of the "professional left". Makes her money out of it and is just as big a capitalist as the rest of us.

Remember, when one finger points out, three fingers point back at me.

Labels: professional left

So, on a day I was not going to do anything, I went to Lowes and bought a bunch of medium size cactus for our desert section. It has been fallow for awhile but when they painted, I took one of my small plants that had overgrown itself, the second such, and planted it in the empty space on the north courtyard side. Then the whole thing looked a lot lonelier. And with the new paint job, I was inspired to go get a dozen decorative cactus and put them into the spot. They look great. They complete the picture. One of the painters said that, often, they will paint the outside of the house and the owner decides to redecorate the inside too. I just got the cacti. One plant, not a cactus, is a purple sage for the corner. I still mourn the big purple sage they took out when they went desert next door. The plant was between our houses. And, the awful truth is, that the sage is a desert plant. As any listener to cowboy songs will know.

Today's film was the new, pre-print, of Marco Berger's Hawaii 2013. Berger is the master of sexual yearning. Put two presumably gay guys in proximity and watch what happens. Yogi Berra: "You can see a whole lot while watching". Long silent expanses, great photography, music. This one is as good as his other award winning Plan B. I am already anxious to see it again.

The Times says the liberals think the White House should be in more of a panic mode about ACA. They still don't get Obama. No drama. This is instead of support and fighting off the sharks. Oh, I despair of my nominal party. If I could start my own I would. Such assholes. I get more angry at them than the teas sometimes.

Labels: condo, film, garden, obama, professional left

THE SNAKE SPEAKS

James Carville has gone a bit mad from being ignored by almost everyone.

He is such an asshole. And he appropriately looks like a snake. Those beady little eyes.

Here he is with Wolf Blitzer. This is a real broadcast set by Scott Bateman. Watch the comments on the left. They are very fast. It may take a couple of views. One of the difficulties of Bateman's wonderful cartoons.

Of course, James is part of the professional left. He isn't earning much at that these days.

Labels: professional left

SECOND THOUGHTS

I have written about the left wing whiners and malcontents who piss and moan about Obama's weakness and inability to deliver what they wanted out of his election.

Here is a guy who wrote a letter to Obama and got a personal, handwritten reply.

The POTUS Replies to Me

He has some evident remorse at his self absorption.

I wish more people on the left had these second thoughts.

There is a blog I read, frankly a sex blog with roaring photos, and the guy is just a complete asshole about the President and what he has done. It is filled with vitriol. I have to admit that if the photos weren't so hot I wouldn't turn to it.

But it is fascinating to see the sense of entitlement that people can have because they cast one fucking vote.

As far as I can see, not one of the complainers worked a minute for Obama's election or even acknowledge the good things that he has done.

These are the people who sat out the 2010 cycle and gave it to the GOoPers.

Pisses me off.

But here, at least, is one guy who sees the error of some of his thinking.

There is a link to the handwritten note.

I love that Barack Obama faces into the wind and answers the criticism from those who should be his friends. Even expresses gratitude.

Labels: Administration Obama, lefty fringe, professional left

ROLLING ALONG

In the continued examination of the budget cuts Obama agreed to we find more rolling of the Republicans.

The actual non-paper, real cuts are now down from 40 billion to 8 billion.

The lefty whiners should be pleased to see that Obama is just a little smarter than they thought and I don't know what the Republicans think but the baggers must be pissed at Boehner. Good.

Labels: Administration Obama, lefty fringe, professional left

THE PROFESSIONAL LEFT LEFT OUT

Well, not "left out" so much as proven dead wrong in their dire predictions that Obama would capitulate to Republican rhetoric.

I knew that they were their usual over-pessimistic selves, deeply seated in their own self interest and, for the most part, whiny partisans who are as bad as the right wing nuts. This must be the way a traditional Republican feels about all the blather from the baggers and the other know-nothings.

But Obama rose to the occasion. A full throated argument for the liberal vision. A deep dismantling of the so called "courageous" and "serious" Ryan plan. Tax the poor and give to the rich, it was.

And now, the lefty bench is chastened if not cheering.

Obama Speech Defends Liberal Principles.

And yes. It was a grand showing of the way he will be in campaign mode. He gave a template for dismantling the so called GOoPer "vision" which is apt, clear and, with repetition will resonate with all but the most retrogressive voter.

Labels: Administration Obama, lefty fringe, professional left, Re-election of Barack Obama

NEW NICKNAME

I read an attack on Obama fans the other day.

The guy called us who are uncritical of the President, "Obamatons"

Guilty.

Then I found out this was a leftover from the primary.

The lefty wars are still with us.

They will cease soon though. We will be on the defense.

I hope the "Obamaphobes" can keep it to a dull roar.

They have already started to criticize him on the DADT repeal because they are sure that he will drag his feet.

He hasn't even signed the bill yet.

And I suppose there will be foot dragging too. It is the government, after all. And the military to boot.

Hurry up and wait.

Labels: Barack Obama, lefty fringe, professional left

LEFTIES LEFT BEHIND

The Progressive wing of the Democratic Party do not like the Tax Cut Deal.

I have written about this and believe that they have their priorities confused or, perhaps, have not read the entire bill which, today, even the Tea Parties think gives Obama a victory.

Now the first polls are in.

Everyone agrees with me! Yay,

Tax Cut Deal Wildly Popular

This is the beginning of Obama's work to achieve bi-partisanship too. What the lefties do not want. Or the Teas.

Good news indeed.

Labels: Administration Obama, bipartisanship, lefty fringe, professional left

ANGER IN BLACK AND WHITE

Anger is not "progressive", yet that is what a lot of lefties want Obama to be.

Read this to understand why that is the worst advice they could give.

What Progressives Don't Understand About Obama

Most of the pundits and bloggers who want Obama to get mad and shout are the same people who believe in a kinder, more caring government. Less war. More understanding welfare. Kindness to us gays. And so on.

But now they want an angry President.

Yeh. OK. Pipe down and let him do his job.

Labels: Barack Obama, lefty fringe, professional left

A REAL SOCIALIST

I got an email from Bernie Sanders today, the Socialist Senator from Vermont.

He wanted me to support the opposition (kinda backward that) Obama's tax deal.

I answered "NO" in a nice way and pointed out that he is not a Democrat.

Of course, he could write back and say that he is not my Senator but he sent his letter from an organization, one of them, that is kind of lefty and I permit the email so I guess it is all right.

I see that Obama actually may like what he has done because it is really a beneficial omnibus bill which happens to stimulate the economy and, more importantly, it provided a template for how he may deal with the Republican controlled Congress in the new year.

He went over leadership heads and sent Joe Biden to work with McConell. And they got something.

Biden has been a great helper and assistant to the President but now, he may be more important than ever. He has long relationships with these guys on the other side and believes in horse trading in a style that is absolutely essential for any success in the next two years.

Its is pragmatic. It is real.

If the left is so adamant about a bill of this type their influence with the Administration is going to shrivel and die and maybe it should.

I just hope that we don't end up with the same screamers and shouters that the GOP has seemed to give in to.

Obama will not.

I find the left's rhetoric to be as repugnant as the Teas. Calling Obama a coward and an idiot is bullshit. It is not only unseemly it is extremely disloyal.

The should all take a dose of the website

What the Fuck Has Obama Done For Me So Far

and thank their lucky stars for his entire time in office.

Their hope went up the pipe of their purity or else ranting.

Labels: Administration Obama, lefty fringe, professional left

GIVE IT TO THEM

I like Obama's response to the liberal purists (and also the conservatives, "like negotiating for hostages") but it is his own side that gets the beating. Well deserved.

Obama reserved some of his harshest criticism for liberals, who he scolded for being "sanctimonious" purists who wouldn't be able to accomplish anything if they got their way. To drive home his point, he complained about the way liberals behaved during the health care debate, sounding like an unappreciated lover.

"Somehow this notion that we are willing to compromise too much reminds me of the debate we had during health care," Obama said. "This is the public option debate all over again. So I pass a signature piece of legislation where I finally get health care for all Americans, something that Democrats have been fighting for for 100 years, but because there was a provision in there that they didn't get that would have affected maybe a couple million people, even though we got health insurance for 30 million people, and the potential for lower premiums for 100 million people that somehow that was a sign of weakness and compromise. Now if that's the standard against which we are measuring success or core principles, then let's face it, we will never get anything done. People will have the satisfaction of having a purist position, and no victories for the American people. And we will be able to feel good about ourselves and sanctimonious about ourselves about how good our intentions are, how tough we are."----Philip Klein's summary in the American Spectator

Labels: Administration Obama, lefty fringe, professional left

HELL NO

I got an email from the DailyKos people today asking me to sign a petition asking the Senate Democrats to reject Obama's deal with the GOP.

Here is what I wrote to them.

NO.

I will not sign this.

We are going nuts over this and ignoring what we are getting.

It is not that important in context.

He is not king. He has to work with these guys.

This only underlines the existence and annoying pissing and whining of the "professional left".

He is right about that.

And I won't sign it.

They, the professional left*, better get used to GOP deals. A lot of them sat on their hands in the election and now we see the fruits of that.

Obama will become "The Negotiator in Chief".

Negotiation means making a deal. Giving up something to get something.

Kevin Drum agrees with me that he really got quite a bit out of it.

The Tax Cuts Have Landed

I have started a new label called "the professional left". Our too lefty for governing bunch.

It is hard work to be the Prez and he could use a little more help to do the spade work.

Labels: Administration Obama, professional left