Hey, thanks Sen. Warner, for throwing your party’s base under the bus!

WASHINGTON — Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) called for compromise and cooperation between Democrats and Republicans during remarks in Virginia on Monday, and equated the Tea Party movement on the right with progressive MoveOn.org activists.

“There’s a super left on my party — the MoveOn crowd in my party — and the Tea Party crowd on the other party,” he said after a meeting with tourism officials in Staunton, Va. “You know, they don’t compromise. So I, for one, am — there are too many times I bit my lip in the first year, or bit my tongue. I’m done.”

Uh-huh.

So, I guess if mock-giant-check-waving progressives like me are going to be branded by our own party leaders as just as extreme as the violent, meat-cleaver-wielding whackos on the far right, then I guess I might as well just live up to my reputation and send Sen. Warner a death threat while stomping on a teahadist head and shooting myself a couple of pro-lifers. I mean, if I’m as extreme as Sen. Warner implies I am, then that’s the sorta violent, crazy thing I’d do, right?

Or is this what is known as a “false equivalency”…?

UPDATE:
To be clear, Sen. Warner is equating the young woman with her head underneath the boot of a teabagger, to the angry, old cracker wearing the boot. And that just kinda pisses me off.

12 replies on “The View from the Underside of the Bus”

  1. I wish that meat cleaver thing was a Gangs of New York reference. If ever there was a teabagger, it was Bill the fuckin’ Butcher.

  3. Fuck am I getting sick of this meme that actual progressives are just like the Tea Partiers. In any debate with fact checkers we CRUSH THEM, but the MSM doesn’t want to force fact checkers on any of the people spouting this trope, cuz that might be seen as threatening and they might lose some of their precious access.

  4. Forget debating Tea Partiers — I’d be more than happy to see an honest, fact-based debate between corporate centrist Democrats and the progressive left on just about any issue you can name. Bring it.

  5. …mock-giant-check-waving progressives like me are going to be branded by our own party leaders as just as extreme as the violent, meat-cleaver-wielding whackos on the far right…

    Don’t forget fact-free.

    I’m w/ Proteus@4.

  6. As long as this is a tactic towards gaining 2012 independents and undecideds, I don’t think it’s much of a problem. The Republican leadership keeps shouting “no quarter”, so what harm is there in the Democrats playing reasonable?

    That said, Democrats must remember they still have half the government and bargain down no father right than the actual populace (who may identify as center-right, but hold positions on specific policies that are well left of that).

    Clearly this election was a repudiation of the Democratic Party’s tactic of just governing. The voting public demands they start the 2012 campaign now.

  8. move on isn’t even “left”. europeans continue to laugh at the limited american political spectrum. geert wilder’s party is probably to the left of most elected democrats.

  11. Man, I’m glad I have a bitter hatred for both political parties and both political philosophies. It makes these kind of articles so much more amusing.

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