As long as they are feeding at a well tended trough, the DC Dems care not at all. Careless they are, and they insist they shall be.

But... she plaintively cried, what of the ... the ... the Democratic Big Tent?

Catch this exchange on the Soapblox Chicago blog as the Dupage and Cook counties in Illinois worked at counting with their fingers and toes into the wee hours and even the next day... late word on the blogs is that Duckworth has pulled it out, with about 1000 votes.

Just get Democrats

into power first, then worry about Progressives. That will come in the future. Progressives and other Dems must work together to bring the Party back into power and everyone must loosen the reins on their ideals a little bit.

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by: CollectiveDefense @ March 22, 2006 at 00:06:17 America/Chicago

funny

I've heard that every election for over 20 years now... It's always a one sided compromise. It's like being in an abusive relationship.

Just Another Souless Atheist in Search of World Peace and Harmony

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by: Kankakee Voice @ March 22, 2006 at 00:12:24 America/Chicago

And yet for the better part

of those twenty years it doesnt seem like people have been following that mantra because Republicans have traditionally been in power over the last twenty years except in the early 90s pretty much. Banging from the outside wont accomplish you anything if you alienate yourself from the rest of the Party. They have the money, the influence, the power. If you want to hol onto your ideals then no, no Progressive will ever get into power.

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by: CollectiveDefense @ March 22, 2006 at 00:26:19 America/Chicago

Hey! No shit ''Collective Defense'', it has not been working. Get a clue.

And especially don't miss this:

Thank you

and I dont think Duckworth will even reach out to many Cegelis staffers. I dont think they will even need Cegelis' people out on the ground for them with all the backing and money from the Democratic Party.

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by: CollectiveDefense @ March 21, 2006 at 23:58:22 America/Chicago

Why would she?

When Cegelis based her entire campaign on trashing Duckworth? A scortched earth policy doesn't leave much behind.

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by: nobodysent @ March 22, 2006 at 01:13:14 America/Chicago

Would Duckworth even ask?

My worry is that having won by the skin of her teeth in the primary (if the results so far hold), Duckworth's handlers will think, "Ground game? We don't need no stikin' ground game."
Problem is, the "strategy" that may have won them the primary, hasn't got a prayer of winning against a Republican who will have more money AND significant ground troops on his side.

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by: Jim in Chicago @ March 21, 2006 at 23:59:47 America/Chicago

And at the end of the thread:

Its pretty bad when youre already thinking

about a recount. Means you dont believe Cegelis will win. Everyone was so sure Cegelis would win, but no. I said think differently. Duckworth might win, she has money and backing from D.C. Democrats, meaning Cook Co. Dems and the like. If Duckworth wins now, what will all you Pregressives do now? I suggest lending your vote to Duckworth for at least one election just to get a Democrat into power in a Republican district and change it for good. Let Cegelis run again in 2008 and see if she wins. Of course she might win it this year.

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by: CollectiveDefense @ March 22, 2006 at 00:17:29 America/Chicago

The party is making it clear as can be, clear as it has been for years... show up for the biannual or quadrennial slog in the mud, work like beavers, be insulted, then STFU and be meek til they need the left, liberal, progressives again.

And this: Dems are happy, they say Republican women will vote for her, she is a conservative Dem.

However, Cegelis who made it thru to run agaisnt Henry Hyde in 04, came closer than anyone had, she garnered 44% of the vote.

Hillary likes her Salazars, Caseys and Duckworths. Likely Duckworth swore on a Bible she would not cough up a fetus in public... LOL. Might as well laugh.

The party is pro-life. With a few stray pro-choice. And DC Dems are not interested in the base, the rank and file.

It has to end. Withhold the vote. And withhold work from the party.

Old English Folk Song:

The carrion crow sat upon an oak,
Fol de rol de rol de ray,
The carrion crow sat upon an oak,
Watching a tailor mending his cloak.
Heigh ho, the carrion crow!
Fol de rol de rol de ray.

O wife, O wife, bring hither my bow (etc.)
That I may shoot this carrion crow. (etc.)

The tailor he shot and he missed his mark,
He shot his old sow right through the heart.

O wife, O wife, bring some brandy in a spoon,
For our old sow's fallen down in a swoon.

The old sow died and the bell did toll,
And the little pigs squeaked for the old sow's soul,

O ho, said his wife, you're a silly old goose,
To kill your old sow and not care a mouse.

O ho, said the tailor, I care not a mouse,
For we shall have hog-puddings and chitterlings and souse

Ya think?

When was she not, I say.

She must do something about getting a stump... er, fire hydrant speech. Just has to. After La Kerry we cannot have another self-impressed nom, who also does not have a credible stump speech. Kerry drooled his speeches, she spits out lectures.

As I type this just the memory of her voice grates in my ear. Quite aside from the guff she upchucks (10K to Casey).

Meanwhile Bill is handy. Useful, ministering, evangelising Bill.

Spoiled Sparky [not kidding, that is his name]

A little Bush Biz, some Africa Biz with Holbrooke (no pic, he is not a dog, he is a rock that speaks), some Ports Biz, little phoning to our (that means Bush and Clinton) friends. You know them: the UAE team for global security and ports and terminals administration.

Schumer?

This is our Poodle Whirligig. It is 15 inches tall and has 10 inch legs. Available in black and white. $29. Look at our other dog whirligigs!

Oh planning on adding enough senate seats to get to majority. Opera glasses at the ready!. This will be fun. Have some champagne, the bubbles help keep one upright in turgid times....

And Rahm, doing what poodles like Rahm do.

Fun stuff - fun for them. Much fuss and bother, accomplishing little.

And all the while the party is:

Norman Solomon has a quick, and desperate (I feel desperate about most things in America these past years... don't you?) look back at what the pundits said in the ramp up to WAR!.

The third anniversary of the Iraq invasion is bound to attract a lot of media coverage, but scant recognition will go to the pundits who helped to make it all possible.

Continuing with long service to the Bush administration's agenda-setting for war, prominent media commentators were very busy in the weeks before the invasion.

At the Washington Post, the op-ed page's fervor hit a new peak on February 6, 2003, the day after Colin Powell's mendacious speech to the UN Security Council.

I cannot give these creeps a lot of time - but will take the first one off the top... one known to all...

Here is what Solomon selects from the months of blather Richard Cohen extruded onto the pages:

Post columnist Richard Cohen explained that Powell was utterly convincing.

"The evidence he presented to the United Nations - some of it circumstantial, some of it absolutely bone-chilling in its detail - had to prove to anyone that Iraq not only hasn't accounted for its weapons of mass destruction but without a doubt still retains them," Cohen wrote.

"Only a fool - or possibly a Frenchman - could conclude otherwise."

Fortunately it was a pretty fast google to turn up the day, just this past January, that Richard Cohen joined the (also) staged performance at the Oprah show - to declare his rage over betrayal - and high profile lying... to the American people. Flag, motherhood, and some kind of pie, were just around the corner...

It was over that earth shattering issue: James Frey of A Million Little Pieces.

Take a gander:

Oprah: Richard Cohen is a Washington Post columnist who wrote in the case of James Frey:

"The liar whose memoir turns out to have a good deal of fiction alongside fact."

[Richard Cohen also] said, "Oprah is not only wrong but deluded."

And I was impressed with that. I was impressed with that because I thought sometimes criticism can be very helpful. So thank you very much. You were right. I was wrong. What do you want to say?

[I feel so much better about America, don't you? -Marisacat]

Richard Cohen: I would say to the publishing industry, you guys have got to cut this out. You're not little shops anymore with two or three people working with quills. You're part of large corporations. Hire somebody for $25,000, $30,000 a year as a fact checker.

A fact checker would have found out in a half an hour that some of this book didn't work because the book doesn't pass the smell test. … When it doesn't pass the smell test, you give it to a fact checker.

Work it out. Somebody could have done what The Smoking Gun did. They could have done it. Publishers have to do it from here on end.

There is a difference between truth and fiction. We find this out all the time. Now we're finding it out again.

This was a betrayal of his readers. It was a betrayal of you.

More from Richard Cohen

Feel better? About America?

About publishing? Media? Truth, Reason, Logic, Art, Beauty? Eros? Thanatos? Feel better, possibly, about the Commerce Clause, with Roberts and Alito well ensconced?, No? Your childrens' future?

Richard Cohen took a public dump of his bottled up ethical angst. LOL, such professional drama...

Really he just adjusted his de rigueur South Seas pearl choker. In light of everything, it was not pretty. Frey is not WAR!. Not by a long shot. But Richard sits pretty... on a dog pillow at WaPo.

*My apologies to the Poodle breed, excellent and wonderful dogs, if not overbred (which is not their fault). I like them, from the tiniest teacup to the most elegant standard poodle. And cockapoos, labradoodles too.

I just disdain humans who want to be poodles.

Well, it is to laugh really.

The umpteenth Democratic pass out, pass over, lie-down-fall-down cream puff move: "I have not read it", they (nearly) all said.

Clinton hiding from reporters behind the 4' 11" Barbara Mikulski (Dana Milbank), Kerry flipped (WaPo and The Hill) and then he flopped, then he tipped over -- he just does somersaults. Nobody sane can watch it by now.

They aren't spineless anymore, they are fucking fried shrimp. Small ones...

...and then I toured the Big Box Blogs... who all shriek they want better, more better, best, bestest from their (you should excuse the commonness of the phrase) Fighting Dems.

They want the fried shrimp to... well, a long list of things dead and butterflied shrimp just cannot do...

Such drahma. So late. And so fake. Crocodile tears. Hot and cold spigots.

I say to them:

get your tongues out for Reid, the way you all did for a damned year. That casino hack with the lobbyist children - and the visible G-spot for rightie pro-life Catholic judges.

Here are the DC Dems:

But for a handful, they are all "Blue Dogs"

Here are the "incestuous amplification" Big Box Bloggers:

Tiniest pink fight promoters -
Don King is not threatened

It's a set.

In case you had not heard (nor caught C-Span last Sunday) the likes of Carville, Begala and Kamarck (all DLC branded on their aging haunches) are "take the party back" people. Really. The kids at Harvard's Kennedy School for Government were not too impressed either...

The tired trio exuded flop sweat thru the event. No surprise, flop sweat is something the party has down pat.

Shrimp, dead but still sweating - and flopping.

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UPDATED: Thursday, 12:17 PM, PT:

Think Progress is reporting the first poll on censure:

First censure poll released.

46 percent of Americans (48 percent of voters) support Sen. Russ Feingold’s censure resolution, while 44 percent (43 percent of voters) oppose the idea, according to an American Research Group poll.