All that negative/anti-Americanism he pushes out will come back and slap him on the face some day.
Posted on 08/06/2007 7:25:47 AM PDT by .cnI redruM
Markos Moulitsas Zuniga (AKA Kos) has a reputation as an ideologue and a bomb-thrower. I wish this were true, since he succeeds in helping Democrats win elections. He also raises enough money and attracts enough attention to keep liberal memes afloat, even when they lose. Alas, this isn’t the case. Kos is far worse. He’s a power-monger with no ideas.
Kos openly admits this. He once said he was not trying to be the next Jesse Jackson. What he meant was that he was a political tactician, rather than a movement philosopher. He describes himself as being all about winning.
Winning is a great thing. There are few things more satisfying than the joy of winning a fight that takes everything you have. Kos’ addiction to the sweet narcotic of victory requires no great effort to understand. But, political victories are like the Allied Victory at D-Day. They start the process, leaving the hardest miles ahead of the newly victorious.
This seems to be the hard truth now confronting the Democrats in control of Congress for the first time in over a decade. With Kos’ help, they stormed Washington, DC in 2006, and sacked the GOP majorities the way Alaric took over Rome in 410 A.D. However, they seem to know as much about running the empire as Odoacer did after he took over for Romulus Augustulus in 476 A.D.
The comical travails of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi now prove infuriating and tragic. They did such a good job of taking over. They have no basic clue of what to do, now that they have acquired power. They promised to drain the swamp, but find themselves stuck in the quagmire of their own profound ineluctability.
In fairness to the Democrats; they may have leaders poised to depose Reid and Pelosi for the benefit of the nation. These two could just be two standard deviations below the normal level of competence found in the Democratic Party and got to be in charge because the better people didn’t want the job of minority leader in either house. I find this proposition highly doubtful.
The Democrats do well in elections and prove useless in charge because they adhere to the Kossian doctrine of Winnerism. They regrettably have company in the GOP and in many corporate board rooms across America. A lot of people want to take charge; few seem to have given thought to what comes next.
The lady and gentleman in charge of the Democratic Congress, as well as their aspirants to the presidency, show the negative impacts of pure Winnerism. Candidate Obama’s debate promise to talk to ever leader in the world, without precondition, within his first year of office, comes to mind. His pathetic threat to invade Pakistan days later was a transparent attempt to reverse the bad publicity he received after his debate gaffe.
His positioning had nothing to do with any understanding of terrorism or foreign policy, and was designed only to move the needles of opinion polls. The fact that an American invasion of Pakistan would likely explode in our faces the way Pop Rocks candy used to eviscerate sea gulls mattered nothing during the moment at hand. Barak was saying what he thought would win. The future consequences of his words could go hang like the unfortunate contractors that Kos blogged about in Fallujah.
Thus, the Democrats are not only in power because of people like Kos, they regrettably abuse power they way they do because of people like Kos. Their focus shrinks to the election next cycle, and the long term consequences are some other administration’s problem. The ideology of Winnersim has reduced them to a party of people who want to tell us all where to get off, but who can’t be bothered with even a cursory reading of the map.
I blame the influence and power of Mr. Zuniga for exacerbating this trend. It is this, far more than the obscenity, anti-Americanism, and churlishness on daily parade at his website; that makes Kos a sarcoma that damages the health of American society and democracy.
Excellent essay, dead on! “Winnerism” — nice one!
kos is the kin of the MSM, DBM, and Dinosaur Media.
They are kindered spirits and thus the Old Media will link to give themn airtime and us nothing.
All that negative/anti-Americanism he pushes out will come back and slap him on the face some day.
“since he succeeds in helping Democrats win elections”
Huh? Like Dennis Kucinich and Howard Dean?
In that pic it is apparent his head is unbalanced as his brain. Looks like the whacks upside the head didn’t do any good.
If Iraq stabilizes and gas shocks stay away, the GOP can win the white house.
I propose the term "Kossuckers."
All in favor?
The guy does look like a homosexual. The KOSSUCKERS referance would be a compliment.
It finally got me to go check out dailykos.com, after hearing about it all this time.
I went straight to the "about" page, hoping to find out exactly what their purpose is.
Ya know what? You were right. They don't really have one, LOL!
It's more "about" me, me, me.
One of the things it says is Kos is "The son of a Salvadoran mother and Greek father".
- I wonder if mommy and daddy were married?
- I wonder if mommy and daddy were legal residents in this country?
- I wonder if Kos is an anchor baby?
I also don't think this guy has ever had a real job, other than a 3 year tour in the Army. At least it doesn't say so.
After the Army, it looks like he was a professional student for 7 years, some of that probably at our expense on the GI Bill.
Being a libtard, I'm sure he took maximum advantage of the welfare system as well.
I do like that it says he doesn't have to work a real job because he supports himself with revenues from his website. That would be evil capitalist pig advertising revenues.
Lettuce join together and defeat Kos.
That’s true.
I think he’s a wimp. He talks smack behind a computer but wouldn’t have the nuts to talk that way in front of soldiers.
I’ve taken to calling them KOSmunists.
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