Professional Left Writer Done With Washington

How long until someone in the administration comments on what an irresponsible whiner this damn hippie is?

An Interesting Plan

Is sort of outlined late in this piece. By "Interesting" of course I mean "really fucking cynical and depressing."

It gets at a lot of the "depressed Dems" issues--which are the real reason that Republicans have a chance at taking over the House this fall--but it goes further to basically say that this is the Obama administration's plan. That they intended to have the house switch so that they could paint a better picture of Republicans as bad at governing, win big in 2012 and then have real achievements in term 2.

That would be a plan worthy of Machiavelli. I don't necessarily believe it, and I am still left overly frustrated by the behavior of Democratic politicians. (I really, really, really wish that Republicans could represent me, because they are fucking effective legislators, even as they are horrible at governance.)

Can't Let Gibbs Go...

Here is Glenn Greenwald's take.