It's Always 2003 for the Angry Left

The Washington Post carries a piece by DailyKos.com (moonbat central) proprietor Markos Moulitsas which would be entertaining enough for its anti-Hillary rantings, but what really adds to the enjoyment is Kos' attempts to change reality. For example:

Moving into 2008, Republicans will be fighting to shake off the legacy of the Bush years: the jobless recovery...

Stop right there. What jobless recovery? Unemployment is currently 4.7%, a level at which many economists would consider us close to full employment if not already there. I don't know how he missed it - it was in all the papers.

"Jobless recovery" is a holdover phrase from the 2004 presidential election. It wasn't true then, and certainly isn't true now. If Kos can't get this simple fact correct, what is the likelihood that there will be much truth in the rest of the piece? As John Podhoretz comments today in The Corner, it's always 2003 for Kos. Let's move on:

Of course, it's still early. At this point in the last presidential cycle, the first hints of Howard Dean's transformational campaign were barely emerging.

Transformational? If transformational means "nuts" and "loser", then maybe he's right. Kos describes in this piece how Hillary does not appear "electable", and yet eagerly jumped on the bandwagon of Dean, even more unelectable than Clinton ever will be. The only thing that Dean transformed was turning millions of dollars of small donations into garbage. The "Dean Scream" made those investments effectively worthless. Moving on:

But the netroots -- the far-flung collection of grassroots political activists organizing online -- proved to be a different world, one unencumbered by Washington's conventional wisdom.

You mean, like winning? Skipping many paragraphs of drivel, we come to this:

Just as we crazy political junkies glimpsed the viability of the candidacy of an obscure governor from a small New England state three years ago, today we regard Hillary Clinton's candidacy as anything but inevitable.

You got the crazy part right, but I don't think it was viability that you were glimpsing, Kos. That was the drugs speaking. Dean had no viability once he opened his mouth. You can pat yourself on the back all day about your "transformational" campaign, but the mainstream Dem party is not going to pay attention to the rantings of the moonbat posters on your site, regardless of the traffic volume. Every campaign Kos has championed has failed, and until he and his minions start showing some signs of success, there won't be any reason for mainstream politics to care what they think.

UPDATE: Paul Mirengoff at Power Line had a similar reaction as mine to Kos' "jobless recovery:

In his second paragraph, Kos refers to "the jobless recovery" of the Bush years. That's the jobless recovery that has produced roughly 200,000 new jobs per month for at least a year and a half, except during the immediate aftermath of Katrina.

John Hinderaker (also of Power Line) adds a fitting postscript:

Good 'ol Markos. Whatever the RNC is paying him, it isn't enough.