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Update II: Fixed the title typo, too. God, I suck today.

Zounds, she's thrown a lot of idiocy at the wall today. Let's see if any sticks...

Some progressives apparently shocked to discover that they elected a politician, not (awesomely wise secular teacher!) Jesus. Clip at eleven.
That's her title. I wish I were making shit up. This women is to pith what the galaxy is to a muon.

I don't understand why these articles keep getting written. Moreover, I don't understand why they can keep getting written. Did progressives really think they'd woken up in Sweden on November 5th?

Ahh, Megan and I share something at last. We're both confounded as to why certain things keep getting written. Next she quotes:

Liberals are growing increasingly nervous - and some just flat-out
angry - that President-elect Barack Obama seems to be stiffing them on
Cabinet jobs and policy choices.


Obama has reversed pledges to immediately repeal tax cuts for the
wealthy and take on Big Oil. He's hedged his call for a quick drawdown
in Iraq. And he's stocking his White House with anything but stalwarts
of the left.


Now some are shedding a reluctance to puncture the liberal euphoria at
being rid of President George W. Bush to say, in effect, that the new
boss looks like the old boss.


"He has confirmed what our suspicions were by surrounding himself with
a centrist to right cabinet. But we do hope that before it's all over
we can get at least one authentic progressive appointment," said Tim
Carpenter, national director of the Progressive Democrats of America.


OpenLeft blogger Chris Bowers went so far as to issue this plaintive
plea: "Isn't there ever a point when we can get an actual Democratic
administration?"

Hmm, that's sort of a weird voice for an post about how horrible Obama is. It's detached and objective like a news article rather than an opinion piece. Oh, wait, that's because IT IS A NEWS ARTICLE. Megan, complaining about how "articles like this are getting written" links to an article about how other articles are getting written. It's like Cerberus (Update: Yes, I meant Ouroboros. I'm retarded.) combined with a Mobius strip where it goes around twice and somehow it's eating it's tail both times. We need to commission Escher to make sense of that shit.

Of course what she meant to say was that she doesn't understand how progressive articles about how Obama isn't progressive enough can keep getting written, which doesn't change the irony any. You mean, the most liberal people in America are complaining that America isn't liberal enough? SHOCK OF THE FUCKING SHOCKS! Her next post is about fish complaining of the dryness of land.

Amazingly enough, she has some words of her own to share:

For a movement that grew out of the anti-corruption campaigns of the late nineteenth century, and was nurtured in the hothouse built by domestic Communism and Socialism, modern progressivism seems curiously unwilling to think about, much less cope with, institutionalist models of politics.

For a movement that is vested in radical change, it sure does complain a lot about the fact that radical change isn't happening. STOP SHOCKING ME!!! IT HURTS!!!! Also, love the equation of progressives and Communists. I guess her note about the misuse of Fascism was about the details and not false analogy in general. She blahs for a bit and then posts another blockquote:

Liberals are growing increasingly nervous - and some just flat-out
angry - that President-elect Barack Obama seems to be stiffing them on
Cabinet jobs and policy choices.



Obama has reversed pledges to immediately repeal tax cuts for the
wealthy and take on Big Oil. He's hedged his call for a quick drawdown
in Iraq. And he's stocking his White House with anything but stalwarts
of the left.



Now it's Obama's Cabinet moves that are drawing the most fire. It's not
just that he's picked Clinton and Gates. It's that liberal Democrats
say they're hard-pressed to find one of their own on Obama's team so
far - particularly on the economic side, where people like Tim Geithner
and Lawrence Summers are hardly viewed as pro-labor.


"At his announcement of an economic team there was no secretary of
labor. If you don't think the labor secretary is on the same level as
treasury secretary, that gives me pause," said Jonathan Tasini, who
runs the website workinglife.org. "The president-elect wouldn't be
president-elect without labor."

No, that's her mistake, not mine. Yes, she posted the same fucking blockquote twice. No, she has no plans to go back and fix it despite the error being identified in comments. Yes, she is the laziest, stupidest, and most self-unaware blogger ever. What else is new?

He also wouldn't be president-elect without the drivers who piloted the campaign bus, but this is not a reason to make bus drivers the central concern of his new administration. Frankly, the knowledge that there are such lunatics out there, but that Obama is ignoring them, has heartened me greatly.

Ummmm, yeah, great analogy. The person paid to drive Obama around is exactly like the millions of people that worked their asses off for free to get people to vote for him. I love how progressives are lunatics here, too. Yeah, we're the lunatics. Only crazy people want the poor fed, the children educated, the minorities treated equally, the earth not to be destroyed by pollution etc. The sane ones just want to shoot privatize them all and let God The Market sort 'em out.

Finally, after an interminable amount of bullshit she closes with this:

The other group who is in denial, of course, is the conservatives. While the progressives are shocked, shocked that Obama hasn't made Bill Ayers attorney general and Ingrid Newkirk Secretary of Agriculture, many of the conservatives who were mad about my supporting Obama continue to assure me that he is making card check and confiscatory taxation the centerpiece of his administration. Maybe the hard conservatives and the progressives should be consoling each other.

Yeah, right, the progressives totally loved Bill Ayers. Hahahahahahahha! She's so funny! See, the funny part of that controversy wasn't the conservatives pulling their hair over a man Obama barely knew, it was all those progressives who were loudly claiming that Ayers wasn't a terrorist but was totally awesome and should be in the cabinet. That's the way I remember it going down, anyway.

This woman calls herself independent, and then writes hundreds of words about how stupid the lefties are and for balance, includes a sentence or two vaguely eluding to the crazy people on the right. All the while, she ignores the fact that crazies right wing idiots have been running the government while the lefties are confined to blogs that no one but other lefties read.

Most. Un-Self-Aware Person. Ever.