I cannot handle right-wing whiners

Watching the right bitch-fest grow the elephantine proportions (appropriately enough) is starting to test my endurance. The level of shrill hysterics flying out of some of these idiots is just too much to bear, so just give me a few moments to vent. Specifically at one column by dumbass du jour Burt Prelutsky.

It’s yet another in the long line of apocalyptic anti-Obama columns that presents 2009 as the absolute destruction of the United States. I dunno if he was being intentionally misleading or if he’s just got a few blood clots in his brain, but either way it’s unbelievable what he typed out and thought to be respectable.

Whenever the slide began, in the months since Obama was crowned, we’ve slid faster and further than I would have dreamed possible.  Obama keeps huffing and puffing and the federal government just keeps expanding like a gigantic balloon.  It’s only a matter of time until it blows up in all our faces.

I want to point out that the Bush administration saw the greatest increase and consolidation of executive power in United States history. Obama has not added to it in the slightest save how he’s continued the stimulus policies that began under Dubya. Take your pick. Even as of 2004, Bush saw the greatest increase in government spending since LBJ. His was a time when presidents could skirt Congress by way of signing statements and Vice Presidents could tell the CIA to keep Congress in the dark, since he existed in a quantum-like fashion between the legislative and executive. Plus, hey, let’s not forget that Reagan pretty much owns the national debt.

Not in my wildest nightmares would I have imagined that an American president would travel to countries we’ve bled and died to defend, and apologize for our arrogance.  Neither would I have ever expected that the same man who casually dismissed our special relationship with England would curtsy to a Saudi prince; refer to a blood-thirsty Muslim cleric, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as the Supreme Leader; and butter up a Russian tyrant who cut his eye teeth working for the barbaric KGB.

This is the kind of person who would probably bitch at John Paul II for apologizing for the Catholic Church’s past actions. And I’d be careful about talking about deference to Saudi Princes considering the Bush family has had Saudi balls on their faces for, oh, quite a few decades now. Khamenei’s actual title is “Supreme Leader”. That’s who he is. He’s the Supreme Leader of Iran. There are lots of Ayatollahs over there, Khamenei’s the Supreme Leader. It’s like bitching at Obama for calling Gordon Brown the Prime Minister.

I also find it hilarious that people actually admire Bush’s policy of calling other world leaders “evil” and saying that’s what he saw in the eyes of Putin. I don’t think neoconservatives get the fucking message that when you spend all your time throwing handfuls of your own shit at the world and calling them evil, they’re going to want to hurt you. One of my favorite quotes of Abraham Lincoln is “The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.”

Obama’s groupies in and out of the media used to cry “Foul!” during the campaign whenever people would question the character of a man whose intimate circle included a corrupt Chicago lobbyist, an unrepentant domestic terrorist, a racist minister and a spouse who announced that America was a mean country.  It seems that in the past several months, his circle has grown in size, but unfortunately not in character.

Again, Obama and Bill Ayers weren’t best friends, he publicly denounced Wright’s remarks, and I love this bullshit notion that conservatives can bleat about American being a pussified nation of victims (hey, remember McCain’s economic guy calling everyone whiners?), but if Michelle Obama says American is mean suddenly it’s the end of the world. And that’s the only legitimate comment in the list. The Rezko story was pretty much all hot air. We’re seeing the Clinton Murder fantasy part two, and it’s starting early.

Oh and by the way.

As hard as it is to accept, there’s no getting around the fact that Al Franken is a U.S. Senator.  On the upside, just as people used to say that any boy could grow up to be president, now people can say that any comedian who’s smug, obnoxious and not the least bit funny, can grow up to be a senator.  That being the case, I guess it’s not too much of a stretch to imagine that Sen. Franken might one day be joined by the likes of Bill Maher and David Letterman.

Ronald Reagan was an actor and Arnold Schwarzenegger became a governor practically on a whim, not to mention Jesse Ventura the senator. If I hear anyone bitching about Al Franken being a “comedian” again I’m going to start punching people in the throat. The dude has been involved in politics for at least 13 years, when he first wrote Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot. He started the progressive talk radio station Air America and has been a tireless promoter and worker in the political realm. What the hell did the “Governator” do before he ran? Made Terminator 3.

Also, Franken has a political science degree from goddamn Harvard where he graduated cum laude. Oh yeah, this guy can’t possibly know politics. Remember, Rush Limbaugh flunked out of college and Hannity dropped out twice. Just food for thought.

And the coup de grace:

Before signing off, I found myself wondering the other day why it is, now that Afghanistan is Obama’s war, I don’t hear the Democrats or their lap dogs in the media referring to it as a quagmire, pointing out that the Taliban didn’t attack us on 9/11, and demanding that President Obama announce his exit strategy?

I legitimately can’t figure out if this is a joke or not. I mean, liberals during the Bush era were mad at him for not focusing on Afghanistan. The big argument was that the Iraq War distracted us from Afghanistan. You know, the one against the government which was offering haven to Al Qaeda. I’m not really sure what this asshole thinks liberals have been saying for the past eight years, because he went beyond a straw man argument and just started making shit up. At least a straw man argument has a tenuous connection to a real argument, this is just batshit crazy.

Okay, I’m done.