Must read article :
Three Democratic myths used to demean the Paul filibuster
The progressive ’empathy gap’, a strain of liberal authoritarianism, and a distortion of Holder’s letter are invoked to defend Obama
Some Democrats, to their credit, publicly supported Paul, including Sen. Ron Wyden, who went to the Senate floor to assist the filibuster. Sens. Jeff Merkley, Pat Leahy and (independent) Bernie Sanders all voted against Brennan’s confirmation, citing many of the same concerns raised by Paul. Some prominent progressive commentators praised Paul’s filibuster as well:on CNN, Van Jones – while vowing that “I love this president” – said “Sen. Rand Paul was a hero for civil liberties” and that “liberals and progressives should be ashamed.”
But most Democratic Senators ran away as fast as possible from having anything to do with the debate: see here for the pitifully hilarious excuses they offered for not supporting the filibuster while claiming to support Paul’s general cause. All of those Democratic Senators other than Merkley and Leahy (and Sanders) voted to confirm the torture-advocating, secrecy-loving, drone-embracing Brennan as CIA chief.
Meanwhile, a large bulk of the Democratic and liberal commentariat – led, as usual, by the highly-paid DNC spokesmen called “MSNBC hosts” and echoed, as usual, by various liberal blogs, which still amusingly fancy themselves as edgy and insurgent checks on political power rather than faithful servants to it – degraded all of the weighty issues raised by this episode by processing it through their stunted, trivial prism of partisan loyalty. They thus dutifully devoted themselves to reading from the only script they know: Democrats Good, GOP Bad.
They’re all the same around the world, mindlessly singing from the loyal hymn sheet. I’m not 100% on politics but if the garduaioning7 is handing out verbal beatings on stupidity it maybe a tipping point lol
Concur. If The Guardian is taking Progressives to task, it’s a sign. Neither Obama nor his minions will notice as he works through his ‘daddy’ issues, all the while taking 300 million people down the road to perdition.
I agree wholeheartedly.
Many liberals really think that progressives are their allies. They believe those leftist lies about ‘fairness’ and embrace their new found ‘comrade’, until one morning they wake up and realize they married snake.