What Bob Cesca Said

On the underpants gnomes (emphasis mine):

The wingnut freakout over the president's response to the Underpants Bomber is proof that the far-right is only interested in a childish game of paybacks. They're simply taking criticisms of Bush and using them to attack President Obama, regardless of whether there's any real similarity (there isn't).

We ripped Bush's response to Katrina, so they're ripping President Obama's response to the failed Underpants Bomber. Of course this begs the comparison -- Katrina? Underpants Bomber? Similar, right?

This is all about, "See how you like it, liberals! NAA-NAA!"

Furthermore, at this point there should be no doubt that if there's ever a successful terrorist attack that the Republicans will call for the impeachment of President Obama. Or that they would have if Gore was president on 9/11.

Don't forget that after the successful terrorist attacks of 9/11, Bush's approval ratings shot up to 90 percent. The Underpants Bomber was a total fail, and, reading the wingnut blogs and Twitters, you'd think President Obama put him up to it. But the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil was a major win for Bush. How does that work?

Hell, I got five bucks says they call for his impeachment on general principle for not being a Republican.

In all seriousness, if the GOP wins control of the House while Obama is President, there will be impeachment proceedings.  You can absolutely guarantee it, because the Teabaggers will demand it.  You think they're going to say no?

That's why I find this whole backlash on the Left thing against Obama to be mystifying from a political standpoint.  The Quest For Purity is going to put us right back into impeachment hell again if we're not careful.  Your choices are the insanely evil GOP, or the somewhat shifty Democrats.

In the grand scheme of things, the Dems are at least sane.