FEEL THE BURN, GIRLYMAN / David Podvin

FEEL THE BURN, GIRLYMAN

By David Podvin

In the aftermath of the California special election the headlines read, "SCHWARZENEGGER ROUTED", a most welcome bulletin that for inspirational value ranks a close second to "COULTER DROWNS IN SEWAGE TREATMENT MISHAP". Yet the most relevant factor is not that He Who Gropes has just been groped. It is the way in which he has been groped that serves as a template for liberal success.

Soon after taking office, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared war on the "special interests", which from his perspective are the employees who serve the taxpayers. Arnold sued to block changes in the state's nurse-patient staffing ratios that would have improved medical care, and then taunted the nurses that he was "kicking their butts". The governor also targeted educators and public safety personnel for abuse while promoting ballot initiatives designed to skew political power even further towards his corporate benefactors.

There is nothing unusual about a Republican attacking working people. The wild card was the response of union leaders, who reacted uncharacteristically for liberals by launching a withering counterattack. The unions understood that corporate news programs would never broadcast facts, so they did it themselves. For months, California television was blanketed with commercials in which gentle nurses and wholesome teachers and earnest firefighters and clean-cut cops politely explained that Arnold is a serial liar who has broken his promise to represent the common citizen…

The mainstream media disparaged the union effort as "outrageous propaganda". And Schwarzenegger was so irate that at one point it seemed certain he would deploy the National Guard to invade Poland.

This is the stage of the scenario where liberals typically dissolve into tears and promise never again to transgress, but the unions deviated from the script. When the head of the teacher’s association was scolded because her ads were making conservatives collectively hold their breath and turn blue, she responded with an eloquence that was transcendentally beautiful: "I don’t care."

The three magic words. Had Al Gore or John Kerry possessed such command of the English language, George W. Bush wouldn't have stood a chance.

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Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com

asserted that the Arsenator is still wildly popular and could easily win re-election.

NPR is rapidly joining the non-reality based side of the culture war.

But it depends on your perspective, even the new Pacifica isn't the old Pacifica.

bullshit. arnie is his props.

had. :argh:

Stand up and be proud. Die DLC Die

for instance:

#1. The unions understood that corporate news programs would never broadcast facts, so they did it themselves. For months, California television was blanketed with commercials in which gentle nurses and wholesome teachers and earnest firefighters and clean-cut cops politely explained that Arnold is a serial liar who has broken his promise to represent the common citizen…

#2This is the stage of the scenario where liberals typically dissolve into tears and promise never again to transgress, but the unions deviated from the script. When the head of the teacher’s association was scolded because her ads were making conservatives collectively hold their breath and turn blue, she responded with an eloquence that was transcendentally beautiful: "I don’t care."

Our natural constituency, the working people of the United States, has learned to fight back....I think we need to do that time and time again. I've had enough of being "polite".

That's a headline I hope I live to see.

she choked on her own vomit.

I especially agree with this snippet:

"There is a clear delineation between what works for liberals and what doesn’t, but the winning strategy is rarely employed. The problem is not an intellectual one because no human being whose I.Q. exceeds the freezing point of water can seriously contend that being passive has ever led to electoral success. The Rubicon that must be crossed by liberals is emotional. Liberalism’s greatest failing has always been the obsession of striving to attain peace even when peace is obviously unattainable.

If success is to be achieved that compulsion must go. There can be no peace with American conservatives. Their hatred is so pathological that the more power they acquire the more persecuted they feel. Right wingers do not share the liberal ideal of attaining a mutually satisfactory accommodation. The reactionaries want it all and will settle for nothing less. Either conservatives will dominate liberals or vice versa."

Time to take the gloves off, people. I want my country back!!!

thanks for posting

"Upset victory," Ahnold. :rofl: