Esquire’s Charlie Pierce has had it up to here with Democrats promulgating bullshit from the ’90s, and to show it he turned his big gun on ex-Delaware Gov. Jack Markell:
No offense to the good people of Delaware, but who the hell is this guy when he’s at home, and why should I give a damn about anything he says?… If we’re going to do this, it’s incumbent upon us to get our terms right. These are not moderate Democrats. These are conservative Democrats. You know who’s a moderate Democrat these days? It’s a Democrat who wants to get to universal healthcare by degrees, and someone who wants to get to free college a couple of years at a time. …Big. Bold. Warmed-over Clintonism with a touch of delicately spiced Kempism, a lovely little time trip back to 1990, and almost perfectly designed political chickenshit at a time of national crisis. And absolutely nothing that will do anything about massive income inequality and the concomitant control that the corporate class has assumed over every institution of government.
I’d quote his walk-off, too, but it’s not fair to Pierce. Go read the whole thing.