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Heads Explode: McAuliffe Offers Fundraiser For Virginia Dems Who Commit To Public Option

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Posted on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 06:59:48 PM EST
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"Progressive" bloggers love to hate on Terry McAuliffe. So this, via FDL, is hilarious to me:

Terry McAuliffe thinks it is time to "insist" on the public option. We couldn't agree more. Terry's agreed to host a fundraiser with Virginia and national bloggers who are insisting on a public option for the first Virginia Congressman who will take our pledge!

The "corporate shill" Terry Mac is to the left of a good segment of the "Left" blogosphere on health care reform. How funny is that?

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    Heads Explode: McAuliffe Offers Fundraiser For Virginia Dems Who Commit To Public Option | 54 comments (54 topical)

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    Made my day (5.00 / 7) (#1)
    by ruffian on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 07:07:11 PM EST
    Yes, that is the funniest thing yet. Go Terry!

    I think it is great too (5.00 / 1) (#16)
    by ruffian on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 08:12:42 PM EST
    Just funny because of all the abuse Terry Mac has taken from other lefty bloggers.

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    Will DK commenter change his (none / 0) (#19)
    by oculus on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 08:17:01 PM EST
    moniker?  ("Dump Terry McAuliffe")

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    We're Living in Bizarro World (none / 0) (#38)
    by msaroff on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 11:10:24 PM EST
    I'm just saying.

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    Note to "Left" blogosphere: (5.00 / 5) (#2)
    by ruffian on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 07:09:29 PM EST
    Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

    You just have to love it. (5.00 / 4) (#7)
    by MO Blue on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 07:24:42 PM EST
    If Terry is the gold standard for a right of center politician, where does that put the progressive bloggers on the issue of health care.

    ROTFL

       

    Chicken Little (5.00 / 5) (#10)
    by mmc9431 on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 07:30:39 PM EST
    The sky is falling! The "progressive bloggers" like Ezra have turned true blue and McAuliffe throws down the gauntlet for a progressive agenda. What's next? Limbaugh marching in gay pride parade?

    Let's Face It (5.00 / 2) (#34)
    by kaleidescope on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 10:16:21 PM EST
    Limbaugh marching in the Gay Pride Parade wouldn't be all that surprising.  I could easily see him on the back of the flat bed in nipple clamps and chaps.

    All it would take is a little self-knowledge.

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    him and tweety on the same float (none / 0) (#53)
    by TeresaInPa on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 02:19:57 PM EST
    tweety with a woden and a catholic school girl's out fit.

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    ummmnnn (none / 0) (#54)
    by TeresaInPa on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 02:20:39 PM EST
    a wooden paddle..

    yikes

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    Another illustration (5.00 / 8) (#15)
    by Steve M on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 07:54:56 PM EST
    of why the blogosphere is wrong to sort everyone into the binary categories of "hero" or "villain."

    What makes you think the blogosphere (none / 0) (#20)
    by oculus on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 08:18:40 PM EST
    does that?  Look at the range of nuanced opinion, for example, re former Gov. Palin, John Edwards, and the Lockerbie bomber.  

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    Because I've seen it (5.00 / 1) (#43)
    by Fabian on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 07:57:17 AM EST
    over and over and over again.

    Remember Gates-gate?  Gates was no hero but the narrative demands that you can't have a villain without a hero, so Gates was hailed as a hero.  Ditto for various other stories that should be of the "compost happens, mistakes were made, plenty of blame to go around" genre, yet people will portray those they identify with most closely as martyrs, heroes or champions and those they have less in common with as base villains, grasping, greedy and selfish.

    Same thing for health care reform - the insurance companies aren't really the bad guys as much as the system (laws, markets) are set up so that profit above all is the inevitable result, instead of the creation of a minimum level of public health care.

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    Oh yeah (5.00 / 1) (#46)
    by Militarytracy on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 08:17:34 AM EST
    I remember Gates-gate.  And when it came to ignoring all the human rights violations of Stanley McChrystal nobody did it better.  Fricken Andrew Sullivan didn't let him off, but the Left was basically silently.

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    Sgt. Crowley is on the program of the (none / 0) (#51)
    by oculus on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 10:49:57 AM EST
    Fraternal Order of Police, mtg. in LA.

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    Rahm Emanuel? (none / 0) (#55)
    by TeresaInPa on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 02:27:24 PM EST
    Obama certainly kept him in the closet until after the election.  And what did the Rahm hating 0range bloggers say?  

    crickets......

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    Another problem with the blogosphere (none / 0) (#44)
    by Steve M on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 07:59:47 AM EST
    is that people often fail to recognize snark!

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    My snarkometer (5.00 / 1) (#45)
    by Fabian on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 08:04:46 AM EST
    burned out during the primaries at dkos.  People would say things and I'd be ready to reply "Hey! Great snark!" and then I'd realize they were completely serious.

    And I would slowly back away...

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    I only recongnize my own snark (5.00 / 3) (#47)
    by Militarytracy on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 08:18:11 AM EST


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    Wish I could (none / 0) (#27)
    by cal1942 on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 09:22:47 PM EST
    give 20 5s for that comment.

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    This is surprising (5.00 / 1) (#21)
    by The Last Whimzy on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 08:32:51 PM EST
    Only because bloggers have been so succesful at portraying Terry as a borderline neo-con.

    Terry was one of the few (5.00 / 3) (#22)
    by Jjc2008 on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 08:40:20 PM EST
    "names" I got to meet in the primaries.  In our conservative district, the dems are not a big group and since the party here got taken over by Obama folks, we had a small Hillary group.   So I got to meet Terry and talk to him in a small group.

    My big thing with the orange place is that some there do not get that there is no politician one will agree with 100% of the time, on 100% of the issues.  I just never got their need to demonize Hillary or anyone associated with her.  Some of her choices (staff) were bad.  IMO, so were some of Obama's choices.    

    Anyway, TM was interesting, had some great funny stories and was doing a good job for Hillary.  

    One name that still bothers me (none / 0) (#41)
    by phat on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 02:20:13 AM EST
    Austan Goolsbee.

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    His strength was always in raising funds (5.00 / 2) (#25)
    by Socraticsilence on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 08:54:59 PM EST
    I think a lot of the anger he engendered on the left was due to his to put it politely, lackluster reign as DNC chair, especially when compared to say Dean.

    Healthcare has always been close to his heart (5.00 / 3) (#39)
    by debcoop on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 01:00:30 AM EST
    Terry was a great chair of the DNC... as was Howard Dean. They each did great things...Howard built on the solid base that Terry left him and Howard acknowledged that.  

    When he took over in Jan 2001, the DNC was heavily in debt; it had been in debt for  many election cycles.  It had a voter database of 30,000 people which didn't even carry over from election to election. He got the DNC out of debt, bought the DNC its own space ( it had been renting from a Republican landlord)...built up a huge war chest for the 2004 nominee.  He built systems like having the DNC have its own media studio.

    He never, ever acknowledged that George Bush had legitimately been elected president. More htan lots of Democrats did who just kept passing George Bush's bills.

    Terry may have made money for himself, but he's really on the left end of the Democratic party on many, many issues.

    I wasn't surprised about this one iota.

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    Well said (none / 0) (#40)
    by gyrfalcon on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 01:38:51 AM EST
    But as long as we're talking about heads exploding, it's just very hard for leftish folks to reconcile McA's politics with the way he made his $$$.  I've always rather liked him, though I would have liked him to be perhaps a bit less loyal to the party line and more passionate about the issues he clearly believes in.  Sounds like he's taking a giant step in that direction.

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    Hmmm (none / 0) (#50)
    by TeresaInSnow2 on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 09:18:33 AM EST
    a bit less loyal to the party line

    I would say the same thing about the Clintons.  They are true game players.

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    See, Terry's getting some age on him (5.00 / 1) (#26)
    by Militarytracy on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 09:06:39 PM EST
    Not so shallow now :)

    He's obviously just trying (5.00 / 4) (#29)
    by andgarden on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 09:35:16 PM EST
    to undermine the President!

    Hey, yeah (5.00 / 4) (#32)
    by TheRealFrank on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 10:03:19 PM EST
    Those evil DLC Clintonites are always trying to undermine the president, it's all about them!

    (yes, that was snark)

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    Maybe Terry understands ... (5.00 / 2) (#35)
    by Robot Porter on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 10:21:09 PM EST
    strategy better than the "lefty" blogs claimed.

    ;)

    I'm going with sad, not funny (none / 0) (#3)
    by pluege on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 07:16:38 PM EST
    How funny is that?
    Laugh (none / 0) (#4)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 07:19:29 PM EST
    or cry.

    I choose to laugh.

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    Agree. Hilarious... n/t (none / 0) (#6)
    by oldpro on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 07:22:19 PM EST


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    Maybe the "lefty" bloggers ... (none / 0) (#36)
    by Robot Porter on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 10:24:11 PM EST
    should paint up like the Joker and put "socialist" under it.

    ;)

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    Well, good funny (none / 0) (#23)
    by NealB on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 08:47:39 PM EST
    n/t

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    So....will DTL have to change his (none / 0) (#5)
    by oldpro on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 07:21:25 PM EST
    name?

    Or has that happened already?

    What next?  Will they invite him to speak at next year's NetNation (or whatever the heck it's called now)?

    Maybe next year they can have a forum (5.00 / 2) (#9)
    by nycstray on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 07:29:37 PM EST
    on Hypocrisy  {grin}

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    Oops...I meant DTM...sigh... (none / 0) (#12)
    by oldpro on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 07:40:10 PM EST


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    o.k, o.k, (none / 0) (#18)
    by NYShooter on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 08:14:34 PM EST
    I'm trying,

    Who's DTL?

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    DTM: "Dump Terry McAuliffe"? (none / 0) (#24)
    by oculus on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 08:54:44 PM EST


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    Danke Schoen n/t (none / 0) (#30)
    by NYShooter on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 09:36:26 PM EST


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    DTL: "Dump Talk Left" (none / 0) (#31)
    by oculus on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 09:38:22 PM EST


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    yup. (none / 0) (#37)
    by oldpro on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 10:37:06 PM EST


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    Or may his head will (none / 0) (#28)
    by Radiowalla on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 09:30:22 PM EST
    explode first.

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    Oh, hey--will you go to this fundraiser (none / 0) (#8)
    by oculus on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 07:27:58 PM EST
    BTD?  

    Sorry, Virginia (5.00 / 4) (#11)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 07:34:44 PM EST
    there is no Armando in your state.

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    not a single Armando in Virginia? (none / 0) (#49)
    by jeffinalabama on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 08:31:00 AM EST
    Wow, what a strange state.

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    where was he on this last spring? (none / 0) (#14)
    by mikeel on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 07:49:46 PM EST
    He lost the primary because he "fibbed" on how many jobs his businesses actually created.  

    Perhaps he'd be still be running now had emphasized the public option.

    Perhaps (5.00 / 1) (#17)
    by ruffian on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 08:14:24 PM EST
    If so, his mistake. Still, better late than never.

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    Well (none / 0) (#33)
    by kaleidescope on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 10:13:31 PM EST
    How many Virginia Reps are likely to sign the pledge?

    mmmmmmm (none / 0) (#48)
    by Militarytracy on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 08:19:42 AM EST
    Larger pieces of pie.

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    I will confess (none / 0) (#42)
    by Repack Rider on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 05:14:33 AM EST
    Not liking McAuliffe, based at least in part on his horrible public persona.  "Shallow" doesn't begin to describe the impression he leaves.

    If he never again spoke or appeared in public, and just did good things like this behind the scenes, I would like him more.

    We have to get over this impulse (none / 0) (#52)
    by Pacific John on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 10:55:50 AM EST
    We libs vote style over substance, and this is what we get, betrayal on healthcare. I kept running into an Obama organizer in the primary for whom the decision was all about appearances, "Hillary's too corporate." She's one of the progressives Krugman talks about today who feels betrayed. She wouldn't if she'd payed attention to substance.

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