Cockburn was right

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While I don't always agree with Alexander Cockburn (especially when it comes to climate science), I recall reading his piece predicting the Republican Revolution II a year ago. It was prophetic and I had a feeling he was right - it's only a month before it becomes a fact.

To all you cult of personality people who believed a single man could triumph over institutional necessity - I hope you''ve learned your lessions.

h.l. mencken said, "nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the american public." i would keep this in mind whenever one tries to predict the yankee future. pollsters will tell you the most common reason given for "voting [a politician] out of office," and they will present you with the phrase, "we just needed a change." it is not that the majority of voting americans suddenly got wise and gave the dems a landslide 2 years back- no, it is just that americans have a dismal history of emotionally careening back and forth between red and blue [steering mostly red], for the most part thoughtlessly and arrogantly.

Well to be fair, by November last year it was pretty clear the direction the country was going in.

But yea, Rahm will def be gone soon tho. Not fired but he's going to run for mayor of Chicago since eternal mayor Daley isn't running for reelection. The other two favorites in that race are Jesse Jackson Jr. and Luis Gutierrez, both of whom were named in the Blagojevich trial, so he has good company. Chicago is a messed up city.

I'd like to take a moment to laugh at the name Cockburn.

It's pronounced "Co-burn"

His name is Cockburn......

Haven't ya'll heard, the DNC and co are all preparing to blame the coming debacle on the progressives and their congressional overreach, not a personality cult gone awry. Between that bit of infighting and the sure to be entertaining spectacle of the Republican establishment trying to play nice with their new Tea Party "friends", I imagine that post November politics will be nothing if not entertaining. I don't see it going so far as Taiwanese style legislature brawls or Civil War era cane fights in the Senate, but a man can always hope.

Cockburn usually is right.

I'd almost take pride in the fact that I was one of the lonely voices in the international centre-left to see that Obama would be Slick Willie II (hell, Obama was even more popular in Canada than the US at the time). I'd be happy were it not for the fact that the forces I correctly predicted entail the destitution and misery of millions of innocent, non-ideological Americans and will contribute to the Weimarization of the American White Working Class.

Haven't ya'll heard, the DNC and co are all preparing to blame the coming debacle on the progressives and their congressional overreach, not a personality cult gone awry. Between that bit of infighting and the sure to be entertaining spectacle of the Republican establishment trying to play nice with their new Tea Party "friends", I imagine that post November politics will be nothing if not entertaining. I don't see it going so far as Taiwanese style legislature brawls or Civil War era cane fights in the Senate, but a man can always hope.