by Smitty
The entire “progressive” edifice is a Potemkin village, a Hollywood set, that looks formidable from the exterior. But in reality, there’s no there there, except the liberal fascists’ standard naked will to power by any means necessary. Because their tactics are always the same (smear, bully, intimidate, whine, and complain), they’re something of a humorless bore, really, although a dangerous humorless bore — a fanatic constantly in search of force majeure.
Reached for quote by Sissypuss the Blog Kitty, Debby Wasserman-Schultz, asked about the Potemkin village metaphor, explained: “Shut up.”
I don’t see how the Progressive Titanic remains afloat until November, at this progressive flooding rate.
via Insty
Update: linked by The Lonely Conservative
Well put indeed, the manic progressive loves them some Potemkin anythings, Obamsky’s Potemkin healthcare townhalls, Potemkin green energy, Potemkin unemployment and inflation statistics and now their latest the Potemkin victory in the war on terror.
Prince Potemkin died in office, now there’s an example for progressives to follow.
It will remain afloat if our side keeps acting like they do! Who loves women more, the Left or the Right? Flip a coin, for Pete’s sake and move on to talking about freedom!
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz actually refused to answer questions about the Potemkin village for the same reason she wouldn’t talk about the Democratic Senate’s failure to pass a budget for three years: “That’s just process, it’s process, and I’m not going to talk about process.”
You know, “process,” like the digestive process that gave us Debbie as an end product.
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Actually, the use of the “Potemkin Village” analogy is incorrect according to most historians. While Potemkin did order clean-up campaigns before the Empress came to visit, he made no secret of it and there were no empty facades meant to falsely convey an image of prosperity, as the term as come to be used. Walsh has never been much of a stickler for accuracy anyway.
A more apt analogy for the Progressives, and Obama in particular, would be the Japanese art form known as Kabuki Theater, which is based on elaborate costuming and dramatization, and the use of trickery to fool the audience. Early performers were available as prostitutes after the show.
One form which developed out of Kabuki is Bunraku, which is a similar type of production where all the characters are just large puppets.