Stop Me Before I Vote Again

"Are ya gonna, George, Will ya, George? Will ya, huh, George?"
-- All Daily Kos readers combined
(with apologies to John Steinbeck)

But, seriously, folks, it reminds me of an excellent old Bill Brown cartoon from the '92 campaign in which H. Ross Perot is shown throwing a sack of cash into a secretary's lap and telling her to "...go out and buy me a groundswell!"

The begging as a general thing would bother me a lot less if the Kosniks could formulate some kind of coherent political vision, beyond electing more Democrats. They could do an awful lot to undercut AIPAC themselves, without any sugar daddy-sponsored lobbying groups, by making noise and exercizing whatever leverage a bloc their size has.

Soros could pour hundreds of millions into their feckless, doughy middle manager Otpor and still not address their major problems: they have no idea what they're doing and their leaders have only the low cunning of dotcom bubble marketing careerists.

J Alva really lets 'er rip, there, and hits the target. But I wasnt clear that Kosnia was begging for themselves but for some shadowy group like AIPAC that would go around Congress telling people they might lose the next election, if they voted for . . . .

But could Soros even begin to approach the combined monetary resources of AIPAC?

I actually find it kind of weird that Naiman did this for Kos, since most of the Kosniks I know (three) are also pro-Israel (although in a nuanced way, of course)

Are Koswacks on the grift now? And what would Soros want with another pwoggie style front group when he's already got Moveon.com?

They're crashing the gates! Soros did, at one point, speak out against AIPAC and uncriticial support for Israel, which means he's animated by the same thirst for justice as the Kosniks and therefore will be anxious to spend his money along the lines they recommend. In return, they will take up their sledgehammers -- against the edifice of that rent seeker's delight, the partially privatized Keynesian military state (PPKMS) -- by voting for Senator Clinton, a wholly owned subsidiary of the PPKMS.

I just realized something else, here...while skimming through all the Yearly Kos dispatches, I distinctly recall the DK honcho -- or another stalwart at the DK -- referring to the denizens of DK as "Kossacks".

This kind of caught me off-guard a bit, as I dimly recall who the Kossacks were and their role in Russian history (thanks to my affordable college education), and I had to ask: Do the DK folks know this or not, and if they do, are they just trying to be wise-assed and ironic?