Kos Disgraces Himself Againby: masslibThu Jul 10, 2008 at 11:57:30 AM EDT |
Kos apparently is not only the greatest liberal blogger EVA, he's also clairvoyant. In an effort to diminsh Hillary's noble vote yesterday as well as her honest assessment of the FISA bill and why she could not support it, he writes:
Regarding Clinton, I have no doubt she would've voted incorrectly were she the nominee. She's shown over the past few years that on every controversial "national security" bill, she has voted incorrectly, whether it was the Iraq War authorization bill, the Kyl-Lieberman Iran bill, or plenty of war funding bills. It's easy to vote the right way when you don't have advisors telling you to "take issues off the table" by betraying things like, you know, the Constitution. |
| How on earth could he possibly know without doubt an unknowable? Sorry, dude, we can only examine votes cast, not imagined votes under imaginary circumstances. As for voting "incorrectly" on every so-called controversial "national security" bill, let's examine those sited and see where Obama and Clinton line up.
1) AUMF- Hillary voted for the authorization to use military force. Obama was not a Senator at the time. 2) Kyl-Lieberman- Hillary voted for it, along with Dick Durbin and 74 other Senators. Obama skipped the vote. 3) War Funding Bills- Clinton and Obama share the same voting record on all funding bills since Obama entered the Senate. My point is, I'm not sure what Kos's point is. While he marks Hillary as "no hero" on this, he chastizes Obama for "capitulating". But capitulate means surrender, and it is my understanding that Obama agrees with the bill, so it's hard to argue he surrendered anything. Kos goes through a bit of tortured logic on his hallmark Clinton complaint, "triangulating". He says of Clinton: If this marks the end of the triangulating version of Clinton, so much the better. That'll make her that much better a force in the Senate. He says of Obama: But at the end of the day, he's a politician, with all the triangulating goodness that's become a hallmark of our presidential candidates. Clinton triangulating=megabad. Obama triangulating=part of running for President. Here he's being clairvoyant again: He's a gifted and inspirational politician, no doubt about that, and he will make a great president. Hey, if you say so. I tend to doubt it. He goes on to discuss the reprecussions of Obama's vote: That has cost him some intensity of support, some bad headlines, a new avenue of attack for Republicans (even though McCain didn't even bother showing up for the vote), and ... renewed energy and sense of purpose for the ridiculous PUMAs. That last one is really fucking annoying. That last one is really fucking great. |