Your post is great. But I wanted to echo your sentiments about Bob Cesca. If you all aren't reading his blog, you should. He is the best. Cesca is a thousand times more readable, rational, and intelligent than Greenwald, Kos, and Arianna. I sense it will get to the point in this election that he is all I will really read beyond TPM.

Read him at Bob Cesca's Goddamn Awesome Blog.

I swoon for Cesca...

Posted at July 4, 2008 9:29 PM in response to Absolutism, The Far Left, and the Abandonment of Reason

You mean he's been writing about FISA since its passage in 1978? No, he hasn't.

And he might have more credibility if he didn't sit out presidential elections.

We all know Greenwald's type. He's the shit head from Poli Sci 101 who proclaims that not voting is a valid act of protest. Who dominates the conversation and runs up to the lectern after class to continue his diatribe, so the professor will have no doubt that he is the smartest kid in class.

And then he goes back to his dorm to find his underwear hanging from the flagpole.

Posted at July 4, 2008 9:23 PM in response to Top Signs of Netroots Overreach: The Greenwald factor

Tena, you never fail to brighten my day. Ever. I am with you on that douche bag Greenwald (who doesn't vote in presidential elections anyway so he has a bit of a standing problem in his litany of complaints).

Posted at July 4, 2008 9:11 PM in response to Top signs of Netroots overreach

Excellent post, Observer2. No need to worry about grammar and typos. It happens to us all.

Posted at July 4, 2008 9:08 PM in response to Top signs of Netroots overreach

No, he should definitely cross post at "we know what's best" Dkos. Heat be damned.

Posted at July 4, 2008 9:07 PM in response to Top signs of Netroots overreach

Are you talking about civil damages? You suggest that the threat of civil damages is more of a deterrent than prison for executives. I disagree. Any civil damages will be minor, and then reduced even further by post-verdict, pre-appeal negotiations. And then the insurance company pays the damages to the plaintiffs, who will have signed a gag order, and the telecoms go on doing it over and over.

Posted at July 4, 2008 9:05 PM in response to A Time-line Of Obama's Statements On FISA

Did you ask douche bag Greenwald why he didn't vote in the last two elections (thereby voting, de facto, for George Bush) but has the fucking temerity to lecture the rest of us for supporting Obama?

Greenwald is an ass-wipe of the highest order.

Posted at July 4, 2008 9:01 PM in response to A Time-line Of Obama's Statements On FISA

Yeah, mine's 5.5%. I wonder if Obama had credit problems. Or maybe isn't white? Just wondering. My 5.5% is, seriously, the highest rate of anyone I know. Most are 4.85 to 5.25.

Posted at July 2, 2008 2:32 PM in response to Wow! Obama's Mortgage Rate Same as Mine!

Excellent point.

Posted at July 1, 2008 8:27 PM in response to New Meme: McCain is too "thin skinned" and "hot headed" to be President

Uhm, have you reviewed the bill? It doesn't legalize Bush's warrantless wiretapping program. It restores FISA (which already allowed for wiretapping without first gettting a warrant). You might be thinking of PAA, which this repeals.

Posted at July 1, 2008 6:24 PM in response to Why did I support Obama?? Oh yeah, I remember...