It is indeed a joke. Just a few posts into the thread, somebody calls him on posting pretty much the same text (crying on the couch) over and over, for Alito's nomination, etc. Once you know absolutely that it's a scam, reading the Kossacks taking him seriously every single time is, well, enough to make bring tears to your eyes, 'cause you can't stop laughing.
It is SO fun to pull a lib's chain. NO sense of humor.
Buddy of mine and his wife are diehard libs. For his birthday I got him a gift certificate, *but* I put it inside a copy of Rush's first book. When he opened it I thought she was going to freak out on me. She looked at me with cold eyes and said "I will not have that man's book in my house". Even after realizing it was a gag she was a little pissed. Just can't laugh, especially at their own.