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.
I vote Aye !!
Motion carried
Kossuckes they are
“If Iraq stabilizes and gas shocks stay away, the GOP can win the white house.”
It’s the GOP’s election to lose. Hillary or Obama? Possibly the worst two Democrats to run for president in my lifetime.
If one of them DOES win, America has spoken and socialism is on the way. I’m calling 40 states GOP.
The great state of South Carolina casts its vote for “Kossuckers”!
Besides, these smack-talking nerdlefties don’t deserve any association with real Cossacks, those fierce nomadic tribes that once roamed southern Russia and Ukraine.
“Kossuckers”: just the right combination of description and ridicule.
LOL, he does look like a flute player, even though he's married and has two kids.
I've never hear kos speak, but he reminds of a boss I once had. This boss had some kind of "design" degree, in a department full of knuckle-dragging engineers.
He was also fairy, fairy, fay, given to high pitched squealing and swooshing arm movements when animated.
We universally called him the "Prancing Poodle" behind his back.
He was also married, with two kids, but was really a homo trapped in a man's body.
Like kos, he was of a mixed hispanic heritage, and of dubious citizenship lineage.
Oh, but they do have an idea of what comes next. Private jets. Ego stroking by the press. The perquisites of power. That's what it's all about, and actually governing the country comes a distant second, a distasteful chore that can be alleviated by frequent junkets and other self-proclaimed vacations.
It could be worse, much worse, and it will be if somebody who does have a program gets in. Hillary.
The author mentions Alaric, Odoacer, and Romulus Augustulus, but says nothing about Theodoric. I find this deeply disturbing.
I think if you use the word ‘homosexual’ in a sentence it can be misconstrued as ‘hate speech’.
However, I believe ‘girly man’ is still okay to say. ;-)
Huh? Like Dennis Kucinich and Howard Dean?
Wasn't he also supporting Ned Lament, who lost lamentably to Lieberman?
Kos is a little limp wristed punk who wears his skivvies backwards. My sister could kick his azz.
Semper Fi’
Jarhead
‘Thus, the Democrats are not only in power because of people like Kos’
Kos and its eyeliner wearing midget didn’t ‘win the election’ for the Democrats.
Maccaca and Tom Foley did that. See Lieberman in CT.
Very true.
If you look at the moonbats these people have backed, most got trounced in the general election.
They are great at winning the primaries. Kind of like having the best record in the regular season and then getting bounced during the first round of playoffs!
After all, that’s what the libs and Dems stand for.
Daily Chaos!
I hope so..but it seems to be so “fashionable” among the Dims.
Indeed!
Someone asked Kos what his ideological persuasion was. (Only a real life journalist would need to.) Kos went off into a soliloquy about how he was more into winning then setting a hard and fast ideology. Kos’ explanation was that he wasn’t trying to be the next Jesse Jackson. So it’s good to know he won’t be extorting any major brewing companies in the next few years.
Flame On!
I think “chaos” is the way they WANT it to be pronounced, and everyone is “dissing” them by saying “koss”.
Yes, chaos is what the left pursues, until all the foundations of our civilization are sundered, allowing their perfect utopia to be instated in the ruins.
They know they have to destroy the traditional, because their failed ideas have no hope of competing.
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