On The Bright Side

The job of blogging for the right side of the blogosphere just got easier.

The first segment comes from “The Situation Room.” If you missed the story about the Military Times editorials, read Bryan’s post. You’ll need that as background to appreciate her ignorance. The second segment’s from “Special Report” and runs a bit longer than necessary to include her restatement of the Powell doctrine, which remains an attractive policy for doves trying to look hawkish. She’s all for using overwhelming force once we go in, so long as we never go in.

Now she wants a say in Iraq planning.

‘Fess up, righty bloggers: as bummed as you are about last night’s washout, you’re kind of enjoying the thought of how much easier your job’s about to get.

I know. I am too.

Greg Tinti points to the new target for the netroots – as defined by the netroots. And the winner is *drumroll* Rahm Emanuel!

Later in the day, Jane Hamsher chimes in with a post grouping Emanuel with, get this, Robert Novak and Rush!

I know it is serving the purposes of Robert Novak, Rush Limbaugh and Rahm Emanuel to paint this as a victory for conservatives who don't exist, but I can only hope that as time goes on the wingnuts who place all their hopes in Rahm's illusory candidates have their little parades rained on.

It might take a while for journalists who like to have their stories pre-chewed by crack teams of DC establishment PR flacks to catch on, but this "triumph of the centrists" meme is a Rahm Emanuel spittle-soaked fantasy. The country ran from conservatives like a bad case of crotch lice and no amount of PR spin can re-write that.

It's almost sidesplitting funny. Yeah, I'm sure Rahm Emanuel really is indebted to Jane Hamsher and Christy Hardin Smith for the Dems big win yesterday. If it wasn't for them and all the firedoglake readers, who knows what would have happened…

Jesus. They are freaking narcissists. And once again, we have another example of the major difference between the nutroots and the right side of the blogosphere: they actually believe they have an fundamental impact on elections while acknowledge that our effect is much more limited, mostly shaping the debate on the right.

(Greg got this via Sister Toldjah, by the way, who linked this to me earlier).