Here is ‘moderate’ Democrat Matt Yglesias referring to the President as ‘the idiot son of an asshole.’
In the post just prior to that one, Matt responds to a charge/query that perhaps Cheney is a psychopath (really- the psychobabble is starting too):
I do say, though, that I find it rather heartening to see the veneer of civility stripped away from the administration. Civility is an excellent thing, but only if the people acting civilly do so because they want to govern in a genuinely cooperative spirit. Since Dick Cheney obviously doesn’t want to do so, he may as well curse.
These jackasses can’t even get their message to scan from one post to another. In fifteen minutes, Matt goes from questioning Cheney’s civility because he told a man to fuck off- a man who had called him a war profiteer and a liar- to calling President Bush ‘the idiot son of an asshole.’
At least all the pretenses are gone. The gloves are off.
Zhimo
I believe the word “moderate” generally refers to policy positions, not rhetoric. In that sense it’s entirely correct to say that Matt is a moderate.
John Cole
Fine- He is an extremist with ‘moderate’ positions.
Glen England
John,
The pretenses were gone nearly four years ago. Some of us (not in the major media) have stopped pretending that the pretenses exist. Sorry for your loss.
howard L
So, telling the insufferable little git Leahy to go fuck himself makes the Veep a “psychopath.” By his own rhetoric, then, Yglesias is a flaming, delusional psychopath.
willyb
“So, telling the insufferable little git Leahy to go fuck himself makes the Veep a “psychopath.” By his own rhetoric, then, Yglesias is a flaming, delusional psychopath.”
Spot on. But since everyone knows that most liberal politicians are backstabbing, superficial, little weasels, nobody is surprized that they would be so two-faced. The only strongly held conviction most of these politicians have is advancement of their party.
The question I have trouble answering for myself is, why? Why do people support these disingenouos little gits? Is it because they are for the most part single-issue voters, who will hold their nose and accept just about anything if their issue is supported?
Carpbasman
Irony is a harsh mistress, sometimes.
IXLNXS
And I’ll be just a happy to bash Kerry once he’s president as well.
Here’s the link I hyperlink whenever I put George Bush’s name in my front page editorials. Thanks for reminding me I haven’t used it lately.
ericblumrich.com/idiot.html
Forgive me for not adding in the html, but some folks don’t like it or block it. But just in case.
idiot
Yan
Fucking get a pronouncable handle, jackass.
M. Scott Eiland
Ordinarily, I’m just as happy to slam Matt as anyone, but I just noticed an item on Instapundit that I had somehow missed until now–his mom died a few days back. My mom died five years back, and I was rather devastated by the experience for far more than a few days. I’m inclined to cut him some slack for hyperbolic rhetoric under the circumstances. Of course, time may show that the effort on my part was misguided, but I’m doing it nonetheless.
RoguePlanet
I consider myself to be politically moderate. And I think Bush is the idiot son of an asshole.
I fail to see any inconsistency there . . .
John
Hi folks,
Just writing to let you know that one of our very own is working with the Kerry campaign.
A student from Dartmouth College Kabir Sehgal is writing blog updates for the Kerry campaign. He is traveling with Max Cleland this summer and writing about his travels. It
Ricky
Good for him!
Hope he knows that Kerry wins Georgia when Kathy Ireland proposes marriage to me. :)
worn
Interesting move: in the excerpted link, Matt speaks of “civility stripped away from the adminisration” further stating that it is admirable when practiced by those who “want to govern”.
Now tell me if I am wrong, but Matt is a blogger, not a member of the administration, and furthermore isn’t trying to govern except by virtue of informing the public discourse (positively or negatively as your opinion may be).
Where exactly is the message disconnect? Oh, and haven’t the location of the gloves been rather obvious with the emergence of the ‘against the President’s policys, for the terrorists’ meme?