On the Turning Away

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Over at Daily Salem Witch Trials, where Jane Hamsher has been burned at the stake so many times they’ve run out of stakes, someone set their torch down long enough to deliver a sermon about the dangers of fire . . .

Obama Warns Progressives We Will Go Down In Flames . .

President Obama told progressives that if this healthcare bill fails, not only will the democrats go down in flames but his presidency. I think those who are not satisfied with this bill need a come to jesus moment. We democrats need to realize that we can’t get everything we want.

I’ll have a come to Jesus moment if you stop sniffing glue.   While drinking a case of beer. While posting a diary from a rabbit hole somewhere deep beneath the surface of Obamabot Land.  

Someone needs to understand the basic difference between flying and never getting off the ground.  You can’t go down in flames when you never even got the damn plane into the air.   It didn’t even make it to the runway, because there aren’t any runways.  It’s still in the hangar.  At the No We Can’t International Airport.  Where there’s no runways, where there’s no control tower, where there’s no departure gate because nothing ever departs, where the only thing in the air is Rahm’s middle finger.    

Did I mention the plane doesn’t even have a pilot?  No?  Well then I’d better mention that.

THE DAMN PLANE DOESN’T EVEN HAVE A PILOT.

Hopey McChange talks about flying, he talks about it all the time, he talks about soaring high up into that Sky of Change, soaring high above the status quo, high above those red states and blue states, way up into that Heaven of Bipartisanship, where the Centrist Angels play their harps and halos glow above every Republican head.  

He talks so much the wind never stops blowing . . .  

Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth . . .

Blowing down the backroads heading south.

Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,

You’re an idiot, babe, it’s a wonder,

That you still know how to breathe.

When he’s not busy moving his teeth, Hopey McChange is learning how to solve problems . . .

Obama’s Solution to Stop Outsourcing–Stop Counting Jobs Outsourced . . .

Since 2000, the U.S. has lost 5.5 million manufacturing jobs, with 2.1 million of those jobs being lost in the last two years alone. Since 2001, over 42,400 factories have closed in the U.S., and another 90,000 are considered at severe risk of closing. The last time so few were employed in manufacturing was in 1941, before World War II spending pulled that sector out of its Great Depression slump.

So President Obama has come up with a big and bold solution to deal with the problem.  He’s going to shut down the federal office that counts how many jobs are being shipped overseas.

I have a better idea, Hopey.  Shut down the Oval Office.  Shut it down before you do any more damage than you already have . . .

As health reform seems to be approaching final passage, anti-choice advocates are ratcheting up pressure to completely eliminate coverage of abortion care, now a basic component of the insurance coverage held by the majority of currently-insured women in the United States.

Meanwhile, discriminatory restrictions contained in the Senate bill–originally incorporated to appease Senator Ben Nelson and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops–are likely to become law.

Single Payer never had a chance.  Democrats will never pass the Public Option. Home foreclosures are increasing.  Labor unions are still dying.  The NSA is still spying.  The corporate media is still lying.  The rich are still getting richer and the poor are still getting poorer.  

We’re supposed to accept that, we’re supposed to clap louder for Hopey McChange and that pack of frauds and cowards that used to be the Democratic Party.

Enough is enough.        

Don’t accept that what’s happening,

Is just a case of others suffering,

Or you’ll find that you’re joining in the turning away . . .

The Democratic Party is turning away from every principle progressives believe in, from every cause, from every value, from everything we care about.  I’m not telling you that, everything Democrats do is telling you that.  If you continue to support the Democratic Party, you’re joining in the turning away.

Listen to your conscience, it will tell you what to do.  Think of the pale and downtrodden, and you will know what to do.  Open your eyes, look around you, see what’s approaching on the wings of the night. A third party is stirring, where the speechless unite in a silent accord, an accord that won’t be silent much longer, an accord that will be heard because it must be heard, an accord that will echo across this country sooner than you think . . .  

(Cross-posted at Wild Wild Left and Firedoglake)