Year: 2012

What I really wish I could do is to ignore Fair Use and just repost the entire damn thing here. But to refresh, John Scalzi is the author of my Favorite Political Blog Post of All Time, and runs the blog Whatever, where he hold forth taunting the untauntable. Scalzi has provided some thoughts on the election, specifically directed to the white people in End Stage Freakout over the President's win. Go over right now and read his entire post -- Some Quick and Final Post-Election Notes to Some But Not All White Men.

Too cute by half, and buried at the bottom of a pile of typical Cohen blah, blah, blah... she hints that this might be Carper's last term. Who knows? Carper talks to Cohen, so maybe there is something there. Or maybe she threw it in knowing that her Returns Day blog post was lighter than a balsa wood box filled with helium.

I took a lot of shit around here because I pissed and moaned about how the President handled himself in his first term. (Apparently pissing and moaning is not considered constructive.) My point was that Republicans only understand boxing gloves and I wanted more boxing gloves from the President. More Muhammad Ali and less Jackie Robinson. Anything less, I argued, was a misreading of his enemies (yes, I said enemies) in the GOP. But the President had a feckless Senate that couldn't get enough of pretending that the Republicans called all the shots and there was no real mandate, or whatever... water under the bridge. That's ancient history. What do we do now? Today. What should I do in the next 5 minutes, to help Mr. Obama follow through and have a successful 2nd term in office? I'm honestly asking.

In view of the fact that the GOP is failing to attract ANY non-Fox News viewers, I think a fair case can be made that Fox News is the GOP's main problem. Consider...