This has been a repeated pattern for months now. The latest example is on the liberal leaning Daily Kos website, where today, a front page recommended “diary” piece asserted the following, ascribing ill motives to those they disagree with, simply by virtue of their disagreement:

Dear Michael Moore, Kucinich, Jane Hamsher, Howard Dean, Arianna, Adam Green, etc etc etc., other people who are looking out for number one at the expense of 31 million uninsured.

How is it that they are looking out for “number one”?

Theda Skocpol, Phd Harvard, Professor of Government and Sociology says Progresives need to undertsand the president is trying to lead. Progressives need to follow:  All Dems, including Progressives, Need to Back Obama on Health Reform.

Well, that settles it. Theda Skocpol (and others) say it, so those who don’t support it, can’t possibly disagree; so, therefore, they must be looking out for number one.

And, in a far right wing favorite (Al Gore is only interested in promoting climate change remediation because he has invested in green technologies, never mind that he has invested in green technologies because he believed in climate change remediation), as there is always something to gain by one’s position (even if that gain has to be make believe), FireDogLake’s Jane Hamsher (emphasis added):

Is a film maker.  She is looking to make money off of going against the administration.

Of course. That’s why she opposes the bill. She can’t possibly think it’s a bad bill or anything like that.

It is amazing how the left often can’t seem to make any cohesive case beyond their own largely self reverberating choir against the right or far right. But then when it comes to their own, they sometimes sabotage each other viciously. It’ seems in some ways a perverse extension of the “no one can possibly see it another way” mentality, which is why they so often both fail to make a cohesive case against their political opponents, and fail to realize that they have or that they even need to. Because “no one can see it any other way.”

One a slightly more amusing note (or not) another front page recommended “diary” on the same popular Daily Kos website, at the very same time, pointed out how Sarah Palin used to cross the border to Canada to receive “socialized” medicine back before she and her husband had, well, better health care privileges.