In the United States, The Left is always childish, impractical, ignorant, silly, and unserious.

[phantom power]

In the United States, The Left is always childish, impractical, ignorant, silly, and unserious. Liberal solutions to liberal concerns have been taken off the table, replaced at best with conservative solutions to liberal concerns. Serious people know such compromises can get through Congress with a bunch of bipartisanyship, until, as always, Lucy pulls the football away. And even when conservative solutions are proposed (tax credits! insurance exchanges! incentives!), they're a Rube Goldberg mess that people have to fight for constantly.

In the richest country in the world (close enough), life shouldn't be so hard.

http://www.eschatonblog.com/2016/02/the-left.html

[hedda_foil]

1. "bipartisanyship" ... Best made up word evah!

[Initech]

4. Seriously did Sarah Palin write that?

[hfojvt]

2. maybe the left should look in a mirror

the left always seems to think that a Democrat from a place like Montana or South Dakota should be more progressive. As if that will not lead to a bunch of Republicans in Congress after the next election. Daschle wasn't good enough. So now we have Thune headed for his third term in a cakewalk (right now he has nobody running against him. Johnson was awful too, of course, but now we have Rounds, so we should be happy to be rid of Johnson.

It's pretty unserious to think that liberal legislation can pass without first electing a whole bunch of liberals.

Considering that it will take Republican votes to pass things, especially now, then unreasonable demands are not likely to fly, any better than pigs will. Consider the minimum wage. We are trying to raise it, what is a serious proposal? $7.75 is pretty reasonable, considering that the real value of the minimum wage in 1997 was $7.61 and in 1983 it was $7.97. As such, it is not even unreasonable to push for $8.25 (and then compromise on $7.75).

$15? No, you are out of your damned mind. That simply is NOT a serious proposal.

[KamaAina]

3. "a Democrat from a place like Montana or South Dakota should be more progressive"

Does the name George McGovern ring a bell?