Interesting Op-Ed in the WaPo

[Geezer]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/ ... ar-BBQMu2M

[chiknbut]

A bit vague, no?

[Deleted User 89]

A bit vague, no?

that was my first thought

[DCHawk1]

A bit vague, no?

I didn't want to be the first one to bitch and make Geezer defensive, but this is worse than vague. It's platitudinous. "Hey, guys! be good, K?"

[Deleted User 89]

A bit vague, no?

I didn't want to be the first one to bitch and make Geezer defensive, but this is worse than vague. It's platitudinous. "Hey, guys! be good, K?"

don't know why he'd get defensive...those weren't his words

[DCHawk1]

A bit vague, no?

I didn't want to be the first one to bitch and make Geezer defensive, but this is worse than vague. It's platitudinous. "Hey, guys! be good, K?"

don't know why he'd get defensive...

Cuz...it's me.

[Deleted User 89]

I didn't want to be the first one to bitch and make Geezer defensive, but this is worse than vague. It's platitudinous. "Hey, guys! be good, K?"

don't know why he'd get defensive...

Cuz...it's me.

narcissist

[DCHawk1]

don't know why he'd get defensive...

Cuz...it's me.

realist

[ousdahl]

yeah it's vague.

but in a general sense, how often do a bunch of former senators feel compelled to write an op-ed in defense of the republic?

is this politics as usual? Both sides? yeah but what about the Clintons?

[DCHawk1]

That's not a defense of the republic. It's a defense of their prerogatives as the respected elders of a (failed) ruling class.

[seahawk]

It's exactly how politicians talk to each other--they all know the issues, what's at stake, they don't speak like those whose business it is to critique every little sentence uttered.

They're giving their support and noting that out there beyond the Beltway, in the communities where they've returned to, people are paying attention. The message was delivered.

[DCHawk1]

[twocoach]

Soundd like Seth Mandel needs to expand his reading then. There's garbage on major news media sites that is written much worse.

[DCHawk1]

[Shirley]

Jesus, it's not that complicated.

A statement that says almost nothing was the only way a lot of former democratic senators could cajole a very few former* republican senators to join them in saying "WHAT the EVER LOVING FUCK?!" to republicans controlling the senate while Orange Mussolini occupies the White House.










*Because with too, too few exceptions, none of the current "republican senators" will do anything to upset the baby in chief.

[japhy]

That's not a defense of the republic. It's a defense of their prerogatives as the respected elders of a (failed) ruling class.

YES! The time for the dictatorship of the proletariat is here!

good job good post shawn

[DCHawk1]

Thanks, Japh.

You get me.

[seahawk]

What Feral said.

The Republican formers are saying to their current counterparts, "You gotta do something."

Does Seth Mandel really think that current Senators haven't sat through hearings, briefings, read background stuff on all this? Why would they need their former colleagues to repeat all those details? For those who pretend to understand politics and in reality know little about it, that's how elected folks actually talk to each other. Not the way they speak to jerk pundits/media people.

[DCHawk1]

No. Seth Mandel just wants decent writing about more than platitudinous mush.

Moreover, the "Republicans" who felt it necessary to sign on to this insipid bit of virtue signaling are precisely the "Republicans" you would expect, including a few whose last jobs in government were working for Democrats. Their panic might seem a little more sincere if they hadn't panicked similarly the last time a Republican was in the White House (and as their predecessors did the time before that and the time before that). This is self-ego-stroking and nothing more.

[Geezer]

^^^^ trumpaloe^^^^^