If there was any justice, Dick Cheney would have a BP heart pump, and the GOP would be in exile, wandering the streets with its lies and failures draped across its greasy chest like a vest of dead skunks. But Obama treated the party with respect, like it cared about anything but its own ass, and we are all going to pay the price.
Republicans remind me of pissed off Russians, who would forgive the worst of Soviet days just to be back on top. In fact the GOP should bring Putin over here to streamline its operations with his KGB-trained thugs, because it's got the propaganda genius but not the guts to take the movement to the next logical level, where it drops the Tea Party charade and becomes the Blood Party (BP).
Though the fairy tales that fuel the Fascist Princess Palin's "Real American" legions pale compared to the myths that fueled Real Germans in the 1930s, I have no doubt that our pitchfork mobs can come through, given capable leadership!
Obama's job is near impossible, like turning the Titanic at the top of Niagara Falls. And he's had some real success (the beginnings of health reform and financial reform) to go along with a few huge blunders (letting the GOP off the hook and doing a lot more to save Wall Street than to save jobs).
But his successes are too abstract for our knee-jerk reality, and now the GOP is sitting pretty, its lies and liars living larger than ever, mainly because it's succeeded at destroying the terms of argument with its decades-long assault on science (evolution), logic (leave our economic fate to the filthy rich), and the idea of a factual world that can be shared (right wing fundamentalists of all stripes). And because Obama and Democrats have given the GOP a thousand lives by not directly confronting it.
And here we are, still surrounded by passionate idiots who've bought Night for Day, who truly believe that Obama is Stalin (who killed, what, 30 million Russians?) because... why was that again? Because he's sitting on their rightful throne? Or was it Tea Party "taxation without representation?" Surely there are enough idiots in DC to represent them!
More on the GOP's Never Ending Lie:
FOX/GOP needs racism, so "...Fox pumps racial rage into the media bloodstream 24/7..." with swiftboat crap like the video remix of Shirley Sherrod.
- There’s a Battle Outside and It Is Still Ragin', by Frank Rich
"...every one of these supposed scandals was eventually unmasked as a fraud concocted by opponents of climate action, then bought into by many in the news media. You don’t believe such things can happen? Think Shirley Sherrod."
- Who Cooked the Planet?, by Paul Krugman
Update: Yes, Obama and Democrats should welcome a GOP filibuster! This is excellent:
- Curbing your enthusiasm, by Paul Krugman
Striking photo on top courtesy NY Times
