"No Liars" Pledge Gains Momentum -- UPDATE

James Wolcott lauds Lawrence O'Donnell for his decision to banish " a congenitally lying Tea Party Republican phony (a multiple redundancy, I know) from his program's guest list" and then asks the four trillion dollar musical question:

When did Sean Hannity get elected to anything and become the cryptkeeper of the Reagan legacy?

Good question, Mr. Wolcott, and many thanks for the link.

So Mr. Wolcott continues using his Vorpal sword to great effect, and Mr. O'Donnell has stepped up. And, as readers know, Dr. Paul Krugman is already doing yeoman's work for the cause (like this from today's NYT):

Very Serious Suckers

Jonathan Chait has an excellent piece documenting the way in which what he calls the establishment, and I call Very Serious People, misjudged the way the debt ceiling thing would play out:

The failure to understand the crisis we were entering was widely shared among centrist types. When Republicans first proposed tying a debt ceiling hike to a measure to reduce the deficit, President Obama instead proposed a traditional, clean debt ceiling hike. He found this position politically untenable for many reasons, one of them being that deficit scolds insisted that using the debt ceiling to force a fiscal adjustment was a terrific idea, and that connecting the deficit debate to a potentially cataclysmic financial event was the mark of seriousness.

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I can’t help but notice that Chait’s list of chumps is basically the same as the list of people who puffed up Paul Ryan and gave him an award for fiscal responsibility. Enough said.
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So what about you, Jill Abramson?

What about you, Tina Brown?

What about you, Betsy Fischer?

What about you, Mistah Kurtz?*

This nation can no longer survive half-Fox and half-free.

So which side do you choose?


* UPDATE: As the Republican House of Representatives votes to shove the global economy off a cliff, Mistah Kurtz shows what a creature made of pure, sniveling Beltway Centronium looks like:

Rather than muting the partisanship and hammering out a compromise so the wealthiest country on earth can keep paying its bills, the two sides seem farther apart than a week ago.

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Each legislative body has now demonstrated that it can blow up the other’s preferred alternative. What neither has shown is the ability to craft a bill that could actually gain enough support from both parties to break the gridlock.

The day someone finally slap's Tom Friedman's dick out of this sock puppet's mouth, I will dance an Irish jig on Michigan Avenue.