He says he’s only speaking for himself, but I’ve got to wonder:
Yesterday, Dan asked why no one had been slogging or commenting on the Massachusetts Senatorial race, which may de-rail HCR by cutting the Dem majority in the Senate to 59, if Republican idiot Scott Brown beats Democratic hack Martha Coakley.
I cannot speak for other crickets, but I know why I haven’t written about it: I am totally burnt out on politics.
Over the last 9 years, it’s been seven years of mostly simmering-to-boiling rage (from the judicial coup d’etat of Bush v. Gore through Iraq, Katrina, and the economic meltdown), leavened with a year of cautious optimism (might we do the right thing and elect Obama?) to a year of biting my nails and hoping that the Democrats might actually, you know, accomplish something positive. Anything.
Now, having to watch the Republicans simply refuse to play ball, the D’s desperately try to make nice and so accomplish nothing by watering down their bills, asswipes like Baucus and Nelson and Stupak hold their own party hostage, an MSM which is really more interested in Leno v. Conan than anything with substance (it took an earthquake in Haiti and maybe hundreds of thousands dead to drive two … late night comedians off the front page for the love of Christ), blogs with foci so narrow that you couldn’t get a needle through. . . I’ve lost the will to care. I’ve stopped reading the Op Eds in the NY Times, much less the coverage. I’m done.
The way to fight back its to claim burn-out and sideline yourself??? That sounds like an excuse a real loser’s argument to me. A more articulate losing rationale, from Tom Schaller at 538.
Meanwhile, Republicans are all fired up for a return to former days of glory: Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, the party leader, is bringing back a “Contract With America” architect as his chief of staff to come up with a common document for Republicans to rally around as they did in 1994.