And now, for your vomitous enjoyment, I give you Richard Cohen of the Washington Post!

He's done it again.

Yes, Richard Cohen, the famous "liberal stalwart" of the Post...who endorsed, and in all likelihood voted for, George W. Bush over Al Gore in 2000...

...is at it again.

If you don't feel like reading his latest pestiferous volley of blithering nonsense, allow me to sum up his editorial in one single sentence.

To wit:

The Democrats in Congress and in the presidential campaign all suck, and Cohen proves this irrefutably by quoting at length none other than Karl Rove, so Democratic voters looking for a good candidate to support in 2008 should absolutely vote for...

...wait for it...

...wait...

...yeah, you guessed it...

...a Republican.

It. Just. Boggles.

(and I know, I know, this guy was a Democrat once...I don't care...he's more fruit from the poisoned GOP tree)

Enjoy...especially the title...and the fact that Cohen fails to mention even once the party Mr. Bloomberg belongs to...oooooops...: :puke:

An Opening For Mr. Competent
By Richard Cohen
Tuesday, November 13, 2007; Page A19

(snip)

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed last week, Rove enumerated the negatives: "No energy bill. No action on health care. No action on the mortgage crisis. No immigration reform." The noes roll on and on, and aside from a partisan dig here or there, no one can quarrel with this. The Democratic Congress, like the pudding that Churchill rejected, lacks theme. To the left, it is a failure; in the middle, it is immaterial; and to the right, it presents an opportunity for restoration.

(snip)

Enter Mike Bloomberg. He is the mayor of New York, endowed with near-universal support in his city and about $13 billion in the bank. Intimations of his presidential ambitions are getting stronger. He cooperated with a Newsweek cover story that, whether he intended it or not, left the clear impression that he can hardly be restrained from running. More to the point, his associates and friends do not, as you might expect, caution me against believing that a presidential run is under consideration. On the contrary, they fairly drool like Pavlov's famous mutts when the words "White House" are mentioned.

How such a feat can be accomplished -- how the electoral college can be won and how an independent can govern with a Congress composed of Democrats and Republicans -- is not the issue for the moment. Instead, what animates and energizes the hope of a Bloomberg candidacy is the utter failure of the current political establishment to deal with, not to mention solve, the immense problems facing us.

(snip)

A glance at the sky shows more than winter's coming -- maybe a recession, too. All sorts of things are going wrong and some of them, like the crisis on Wall Street, cannot even be gauged. Just who will be stuck owning worthless paper based on worthless mortgages secured by nearly worthless houses is still unknown. Not even the financial institutions -- Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, etc. -- knew what was happening or know, will you believe, what is now happening. Bad times -- probably very bad times -- are coming.

So competence will have a certain charm. (And Bloomberg is not short on actual charm, either.) These circumstances, not to mention an ability -- if not a determination -- to spend maybe $1 billion on a campaign, could radically change American politics. The chances of this happening are not great, I know, but Ross Perot did get 19 percent of the popular vote in 1992 (nary a vote in the electoral college, though) and he was perceived as a bit weird and totally unsuited for the presidency. Bloomberg is a different story altogether.

Will Mayor Mike run? He might. Can he win? I still doubt it. But my doubts are nothing compared with my chagrin when I read an op-ed by Karl Rove with which I keep nodding in agreement. It takes a pretty broken system for Rove to be right. Maybe it will take a Bloomberg billion to fix it.

More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/12/AR2007111201420.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

...time machine...

http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/60/19682

(an open letter to Cohen I wrote, after he put forth a similar glop of verbal upchuck, in May 2006)

P.S. Another reason for the anger you have absorbed can be laid, frankly, at your own feet. There are enough of us around who can still remember your words from November of 2000: "Given the present bitterness, given the angry irresponsible charges being hurled by both camps, the nation will be in dire need of a conciliator, a likable guy who will make things better and not worse. That man is not Al Gore. That man is George W. Bush."

Assbag.

Funnier-looking, definitely

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The Washington Post has tacked exceedingly right wing in the past 5 years...

Douchebag.

n/t

Nobody with any self respect would use that for stimulation.

They are all corrupt and America deserves what it gets....We are corrupt to the very core..

May our children and grandchildren yet to be born piss on our graves.

by his blinded support for everything Israel does. Yes, like Lieberman.

Cohen's going through the same withdrawls many of his other "village bretheren" are starting to feel...some of their best "friends" and "sources" are vanishing. They're no longer leaking those big headlines and the daily blast faxes just don't have the same old pizzaz. Change comes hard in the village as more of their friends vanish from town just like the teen-age girl who got preggers back "in the day"...gone and not spoken of. Lots of rumors, lots of pining for the "way things were", lots of complaining about the "lack of civility" cause their social applecart has been overturned.

It's a shame to see a "journalist" work so hard to prove their "bina fides" as to harp talking points and wrestle with strawmen.

Cheers...

NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

be blamed alone.

... to use the word you, yourself, coined just last week, Will:

Richard Cohen is a "dooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh".

point: 3-way polls last summer showed that Rudy G. was hurt much more by Bloomberg than Hillary. The Repub field is weak and pathetic--that's why Bloomberg might have an opening, and that's why he would probably hurt them more--the base is demoralized, and there are plenty of Repub rank-and-file who don't like their choices for various reasons but can't stomach voting for a Democrat. In contrast, Dems are happier with their field, and HUNGRY for victory. He won't draw as many from our side. I welcome more choices, myself, especially if the signs keep pointing to a Dem victory anyway.

I believe that he swiched affiliation to make it more likely that he could get on the ballot. He's no longer a Republican. He's generally more liberal than all of the current Dem candidates except DK.

He has switched to independent after first switching to the pubs to get on the ballot. Weirdly enough, so did Rudy (he also used to be dem - even his mother laughs about the switch). I guess Bloomberg decided he couldn't sell his soul like Rudy to keep at it. Watching Rudy twist himself into a conservative pretzel has been very amusing for New Yorkers. The last pub that won stateside in New York without staying a liberal was Al D'Mato (sp?).

:rofl: That's down right poetic.

Great response WP.

This creature's opinion must always be taken with a strong antibiotic and a dose of "Who the f^@k asked you?".

Hasn't this sub-species done enough damage to our form of government? Any "advice" from this character should be viewed through the high power "what in this for you" glasses. He works for his interest only. He always has, and very rarely do the interests of his species and the human race's coincide.

Some might think I am being cruel, or that my words are "politically motivated." Some would accuse me of using hypebole.

Some of this may be true. I am not sure, for example, if the rock Carl now resides under is indeed covered in slime. But I stand behind the rest of my statement.

The happiest place on Earth.

Swine like Cohen are paid handsomely to parrot the bloated blather of the corpulent corporate masters of reality that Amerika has become.

Odds are, Cohen tonight will be toasted and congratulated for his poseur wisdom, whilst sucking down h'ourderves and spirits with the rest of the filthy maggot pseudo-press circle jerks in the District who feed off the rotting corpse of American democracy at some fucking self-congratulatory back-slapping neocon Bacchanalian orgy.

Assbag is too kind.

I'll go with festering sack of pus.

you find someone who's sayin' what you want and you stick a "liberal/democrat" label on him. See how simple that was to fix?