Let's Talk Payback, Don

Don Surber disagrees with Joe Klein's observation from yesterday, and quite vehemently so. But Surber's response is very illuminating.

When people opposed the war in Iraq and got loud, dissent was patriotic.

Now it is dangerous?

I don’t mind Van Jones or Nancy Pelosi. They are what they are.

I am annoyed by lefties who call themselves moderates to give them cover when they attack conservatives.

Gandelman and Klein are no more moderate than I am.

Gandelman and Klein are like those refs in the TV wrestling matches who only see the rule-breaking of one side and not the other.

Spare me the clutching of the pearls, girls, over a few shouts at a townhall meeting.

Liberals did not complain about the noise level when the shouting was from the left.

Townhall meetings are supposed to get loud. That is what a townhall meeting is supposed to be: People speaking out to public officials.

Unvfortunately, over the years politicians have staged so many townhall meetings that they have forgotten the true purpose of such meetings: To listen, not lecture.

I am not angry. I am amused. The left is discovering that paybacks are a female dog.

Deal.

With.

It.

You see, this is merely payback for Obama winning in 2008. It's nothing more than a few shouts. The guns at the meetings, the cries of facism, the birther madness, the rising tide of anger being fed by Beck and Limbaugh and Savage, the violence and craziness, are two things, according to wingers like Surber:

1) They are all the fault of the Left, for eight years of unbearable persecution of the right during the Bush years.

2) The winger response is 100% justified because of 1) there.

It is now time for the Right to exact revenge because they were thrown out of power by the voters. They will salt the Earth if need be as they destroy any semblance of political discourse. To the wingers, this is the End War.

Deal with it, Surber says. Remember those words. Anything goes now. When this detonates the country and the blood starts flowing, remember that it was just a little shouting.

If the wingers cannot run the country, then the country must be made to pay until they are.

[UPDATE 3:11 PM] The Kroog sums it up nicely:

Obama could have come in proposing to pursue an agenda identical to Bush, and he would still be a socialist/Commie/fascist, with those of us who don’t see it that way lying Nazis ourselves.

Something is going very wrong in the heads of a substantial number of Americans.

Indeed.