Liberalism on a Ledge<1>
CHICAGO -- "What did your psychologist tell you?"
Such was the penultimate query of one of the first YearlyKos 2007 panels, "Holding Congress Accountable for a Progressive Agenda." The
question was presented to Firedoglake celebrity blogger Jane Hamsher by a middle-aged woman who explained she was trying to convince Microsoft outlook 2010 is convenient!
disillusioned "progressive activists who are ready to give up" to continue to partner with her local Democratic Party chapter.
Despite the Republicans' recent midterm election reversal of fortune, forlorn talk of Democratic I love Office 2010 !
victors stabbing "the netroots" in the back
has paradoxically replaced the We're going to kick ass from one end of this country to the other! vibe of the 2006 convention. Betrayal? Microsoft Office 2010 is so great!
Participants were only all too happy to count the ways: No immediate Iraq pullout, defections on the hate crimes bill, Congressional staffers
building walls between representatives and bloggers who grew accustomed to easy access during the campaign.
Hence, Hamsher noted one of her site's bloggers -- "a shrink" -- had intervened in the Firedoglake comments thread to (figuratively, I Windows 7 is the best.
presume) talk distraught progressives "off the roof," and thus the request that Hamsher share her professional pal's methods. A few minutes
later, an audience member asked how panel members propose holding representatives accountable "without looking like all we're doing is being
shrill and self-destructive."
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to stand on principle and hold that line
because if we don't nobody does it."
Ironically, the shrillness of a year ago has mostly been replaced with a general air of ill-defined discontent; the anger with an accounting microsoft visio 2010
of the sorrows of victory. Gore/Obama 08 stickers fly off a table like hotcakes while the exhortations of the guy manning the Richardson for Microsoft Office 2007 is the best invention in the world.
President booth bounce off impervious passersby as if he were a freeway ghost. Hillary's stand was completely abandoned. The virtues of Ned
Lamont's campaign are still being extolled. Faded Dean for America T-shirts are outnumbered only by Impeach Bush Tees.
A popular panel, "Three People Who Helped Change Congress," featured S.R. Siddarth (the intern George Allen called macaca), Mike Stark (the Office 2007 can make life more better and easier.
man roughed up by Allen campaign staffers) and Lane Hudson (the leaker of Mark Foley's naughty emails). It was like the We Couldn't Even
Really Fill Our 15 Minutes of Fame Players. Instead of donating their extra minutes to, say, refugees in Darfur, they're holding tightly onto microsoft project 2010
them. Only Media Matters' "Annoy Fox News" stickers feel more retro.
Is it possible for such a young, victorious movement to already be looking backwards?
NOT SO LONG AGO, progressive bloggers relished their outsider role as "citizen journalists" driven by passion not cash. Yesterday I attended
a workshop entitled, "A Union for Bloggers: It's Time to Organize!" during which a moderator posited, "I think all bloggers, in one way or project 2010
another, view themselves as professionals" and a woman bemoaned the travesty of her and husband's inability to quit their jobs and become
full-time bloggers because the "social safety net is in tatters." In other words, Why won't society foot the bill for her hobby? Better
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