Bipartisanship Porn - (Gawd I Love) Bob Cesca

[WillyT]

Bipartisanship Porn
Bob Cesca
Political Author, Blogger, and New Media Producer
Posted: August 19, 2009 05:11 PM

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There are many kinds of porn. In the modern vernacular there's "food porn," which describes gastronomic perfection so delicious, it's practically obscene. There's also "torture porn," made famous by Mel Gibson's movies, Rob Zombie's movies, 24, Fox News Channel and, of course, the Bush administration. And then there are the too numerous to list forms of regular old "porn" porn.

I'm not so thrilled to announce that there's a new kind of "porn" in town. What we've been witnessing during this health care reform process can easily be defined as "bipartisanship porn." It's a display of bipartisanship so obscene and excessive that it borders on perverse. But unlike most of the other forms of porn, it's not even fun to look at chiefly because it involves the shriveled mugs of Chuck Grassley and Max Baucus.

Today, following a killer 12 hours of fresh air in which it looked like bipartisanship porn was dying, Robert Gibbs let fly in the White House press room:

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the administration remains committed to drawing Republican support for the bill, particularly in the Senate.

"I don't know why we would short-circuit that now," Gibbs told reporters.

He said the White House believes some Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee "are still working in a constructive way to get reform through the Senate and ultimately to the president's desk."

After everything that's gone down this month? Sheesh. Get a room.

Gibbs has dropped these comments on the same day when Rahm Emanuel finally admitted that the Republicans aren't at all interested in voting for health care reform.

It's the same day when the New York Times reported that the congressional Democrats are prepared to jettison the Republicans once and for all in order to pass a real health care reform bill.

It's within the same week when both Grasshole and Jon Kyl made it perfectly clear that the Republicans will not vote for any health care reform bill short of something that abolishes Medicaid, privatizes Social Security and replaces Secretary Sebelius with Kelly Prejean.

And it's following several weeks when the entire Wingnut-Industrial Complex injected numerous lies, distortions and actual firearms into the health care debate. This succeeded in scaring the white plastic belts and warm-up suits off scores of old people and convinced a supermajority of Fox News viewers that affordable, reliable and portable health insurance is somehow the Fourth Reich (because we all know how much neo-Nazis love mixed-race liberal politicians).

During the battle over the Recovery and Reinvestment Act, we observed that the Republicans were only interested in sabotaging the president's agenda. Their goal was to play along with this notion of bipartisanship just enough to find a gap through which they could drop their psycho-bombs into the legislation and dash away -- brazenly shouting "So long, suckers!" as they went. Like the well-known fable about the scorpion and the frog, it's their nature. This is what they do. Their only path out of exile is to sabotage anything and everything in the Democratic agenda. When the Democrats fail, the Republicans rise again. They've been perfectly honest and up front about this, too, as evidenced by the famous "fail" remarks from their impotent de facto leader Mr. Limbaugh.

So why are they being allowed to do it again, this time with something as critical as health care reform?

The answer can be illustrated by outlining the three biggest bipartisanship porn fetishists, if you will. The White House, centrist Democrats and the establishment press...

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[seabeyond]

1. i find it amusing how we use porn to describe something less than ok when talking

about so many other things, yet when talking about real deal porn on du.... anyone who doesn't embrace and hail it is simply dismissed as a prude or their sexuality attack or any number of claims to lessen the person

we use the term porn when we want to put something in the gutter.

then we demand that actual porn is nothing but respectful and virtuous.

no point. no battle. just simple hypocrisy. as we are looking at a blue sky and told it is really green.

[WillyT]

2. I Hear Ya... But Curiously...

just about every time the word "porn" is mentioned here at DU, you appear and comment.

The subject must really gnaw at you.

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[seabeyond]

5. it is much more intricate in the fabric of our society

and seeing a conditioning that is doing a lot of damage.

it really has little to do with porn itself, what i have to say, what i see and how i feel. porn itself is neutral, a nothing. but the peeling of the onion of it, the beyond of it..... who we are and what we are becoming, the societal effects, those are what really concerns me. porn is just a vehicle to what i see as a real issue, as there are many different things that contribute, not just porn

it just so happens i had thought about this very point a couple days ago. and here it was right in front of me. if you actually listen to what i am saying, the essence really has nothing to do with porn. it is the message, conditioning, lie, hypocrisy we feed with it

if we were actually honest when talking about this stuff, i really wouldnt have an issue

it is the lie we condition ourselves with that i have issue

[tj2001]

3. Yeah they suck

sure looks like it right now

[BrklynLiberal]

4. LOL...

[WillyT]

6. I Particularly Liked The "Wingnut-Industrial Complex" !!!

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[WillyT]

7. Last Kick...

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[BrklynLiberal]

8. What the heck..one more kick.