Yearly Kos, baybee!

First of all, to those of you STILL commenting on the R. Kelly thread - enough already! For the love of god, it's the worst song in the history of songdom, if you disagree you're an idiot and possibly a crackhead, and besides, the thread is MONTHS old - nobody cares anymore! Buncha R. Kelly-worshipping dumbasses...

So while I sit here drinking way too much coffee and my daily EmergenC (because commercials never lie - it must work!), I'm already making plans for the yearly Kos convention in June. If the organizers pull it off, we could have 10,000 progressive bloggers at the Riviera in Vegas for three days of planning, networking and meeting with politicians. My money says they'll only manage to convince 5,000 to make the trip, but I've been wrong before [note: this is not true. switzer is never wrong].

Yesterday, Harry Reid became the first confirmed speaker at the convention. Naturally, it only took a couple hours before Republicans attacked Reid, Kos, and liberals. Once again, proof that they're terrified of a real opposition that fights, and that they have no plan for governance - just a permanent campaign of hostility.

Don Stewart, an aide to Sen. John Cornyn says Reid is "opening himself up to a swarm of criticism by those who are offended by the vitriol spewed by that
group. It looks an awful lot like an endorsement of their comments -- and
that's an albatross he probably doesn't want."

That's what our friends in GOP land want the message to be when anyone, anywhere, tries to work with liberals and progressives. "offended by the vitriol spewed". I always like when A) Republicans, who are outraged that anyone could be "offended" by words when it comes to racist slurs, sexist comments or *gasp* Christmas, whine and cry about being offended by diarists at Kos, and B) they ironically spew vitriol by constantly claiming liberals spew vitriol. (this doesn't even touch on the beautiful irony of Falafel O'Reilly whining constantly about George Soros and "smear sites" and personal attacks while calling every liberal - EVERY liberal - a pinhead, America hater, treasonous...the list goes on. Keep talking, Falafel)

So it's clear that these morons plan to complain and whine and moan that Democrats might possibly gather somewhere to make a plan and will attack anyone who agrees to gather with them to speak. Here's hoping that Reid and any other leaders who agree to attend have the cojones to withstand the verbal assault they'll be treated to. Here's also hoping that every liberal blogger in the country from now on will respond with a furious barrage of press releases every time a Republican elected official appears with a white supremacist convention, shares a stage with Ann Coulter, or genuflects at a gathering of Freepers. They've been doing this for years, and no one on the left makes a friggin' peep. Time for nicey-nice to end. They don't like us gathering, we don't like them gathering even more loudly. Hell, they might be meeting to launder their Abramoff money!

Okay, so go sign up for Yearly Kos. I don't want to hear your money situation, ya buncha crybabies! This is a chance for the biggest Seattle Kos Not-a-Meetup in history, and a roadtrip to boot! And I don't want to be the only Washington blogger there...