Cowardly BS (UPDATE)

I want to play a little game here. It's called, "Let's be adults about things." Scott Brown won the special election in Massachusetts to replace the recently deceased Ted Kennedy. In part he won because the Democratic Party in Massachusetts miscalculated; Ms. Coakley also lost pretty much fair and square because she was, to put it bluntly, the worst possible choice for a candidate. Scott Brown, while certainly holding all sorts of odd, even awful, notions and political positions, is now the junior Senator from Massachusetts. I think he deserves a note of congratulations, if for no other reason than winning an election that, for all intents and purposes, he should have lost.

Now the Republicans have 41 seats in the US Senate. The Democrats have 57. There are two independents. Bernie Sanders of Vermont is a socialist, and caucuses with the Democrats. Joe Lieberman is a douchebag and also caucuses with the Democrats, although I can't for the life of me understand why. That gives the Democrats, effectively, 59 seats. While there are, to be sure, more conservative Democrats - Ben Nelson, Evan Bayh, Mary Landrieu - for the most part the Democratic caucus is far more liberal even than the majorities the Democrats held, say, in the late-1980's through 1994. The possibilities inherent in this quite liberal plurality should be exciting to contemplate.

Except, of course, too many people are not. Instead, they are actually accepting the Republican version of events - Mitch McConnell's truly stupid notion that an election in a relatively small state is a national referendum makes sense only in a mind bereft of sense - and are writing crap like this.

Folks, Scott Brown’s victory has sent a clear message that not one single American voter supports a progressive agenda. Let’s face it — it’s over. The Dems are not going to be able to salvage a single thing out of this.

As if they ever were.

We might as well quit trying.

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The Republicans own us. We may still technically have the presidency, large majorities in both houses of Congress and more governors, but really, the endgame in this particular political drama is all but written in stone.

And the message for any sane person is: Give up. Stop thinking it will ever get better. It will only get worse forever and ever and ever.

If the person who wrote this truly believes it, the website that featured this post should fold. Ditto pretty much every liberal who writes a blog, produces original news content, or advocates for candidates. Eschaton? Done. Crooks & Liars? Turn it off. TPM? Josh Marshall might as well start looking for a regular job. If D. Aristophanes publishes a single new post at Sadly, No!, he is both a liar and a hypocrite.

Am I the only liberal in America who couldn't care less that the Republicans won in Massachusetts? Am I the only one who thinks that it might be time to start providing testicles and spinal cords to Congressional Democrats, rather than sit in our corners and whine and moan because the Republicans have 41 fucking seats in the US Senate?

I didn't realize the caricature of Democrats as cowardly surrender monkeys was actually true, but this single post has proved me wrong.

At least some are, anyway.

UPDATE: I feel stupid. I got owned, apparently, because I was far too ready to accept Aristophanes' post as legit, rather than the satire it is. He let me know in comments.

Sorry, guys, I should have known better.

I'm leaving this up as an object lesson in my own stupidity.

Again, many apologies to Aristophanes and all those at Sadly,No! for being so dumb. Too may, at least in the mainstream media are acting as if the entire Democratic Party should fold so, in my defense, I read this as straight commentary rather than satire. My head is hung in shame. You guys can even write a post, like you did once before, about how stupid I am, and I won't complain.