skippy the bush kangaroo: rahm it up your ass

Saturday, December 19, 2009

rahm it up your ass

as the health care reform bill approaches the finish line, we are reminded of our discussion yesterday the insulting position of ron brownstein (and, by extension, rove emanuel), whose central premise in his rant against those opposing the current ~~sans lubricant ass-fucking~~ health care bill seems to be

the broad mass of college-educated white voters are an increasingly central component of the democratic coalition. but it remains a challenge for the party to manage the expectations of that community's most liberal segments because they tend to see politics less as a means of tangibly improving their own lives than as an opportunity to make a statement about the kind of society they want america to be.

they think that progressives who dislike the bill are spoiled middle-class trust fund babies who don't have to worry about healt insurance.

well, for both of those gentlemen, we have four words:

steve gilliard and jim capozzola

(yes, techncially, that's 5 words, but we're not counting the conjunction.)

both steve and jim were incredibly astute progressive bloggers who were not only keenly analytical about the problems facing this country, but also incredibly generous with their time and attention.

(and, surprise surprise, steve was not a "middle-class white voter.")

both of those wonderful gentlemen passed off this earth this last decade, because they didn't have health insurance that could adequately cover their illnesses.

both of these enormously gifted writers were special friends to this blog...both gave early encouragement to skippy's efforts in the beginning, and jim even secrety bought away the blogger banner ad at the top of this blog back in the paleozoic period of blogging, as gesture of kindness to us.

for blogtopia and yes, we coined that phrase, to have lost two such dynamic and important voices due to lack of affordable insurance is the large, gaping wound into which brownstein and emanuel rub their inside-the-beltway salt when they disparage progressives as being out of touch with this issue.

so, ron and rahm...kindly go f^ck yourselves.

posted by skippy at 12:28 PM |