Blown A Gasket

MoDo The Red goes into a classic Jennifer Saunders AbFab bender again, where she actually makes a couple of good points only to see them drowned in some good ol' Obama-bashing.  First, the good news as she rightfully and righteously takes aim at Newtie and the Moose Lady:

Gingrich fancies himself an intellectual, a historian, a deep thinker — the opposite number, you might say, of Sarah Palin.

Yet here is Gingrich attempting to out-Palin Palin on Fox News: “Nazis don’t have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust Museum in Washington.” There is no more demagogic analogy than that.

Have any of the screaming critics noticed that there already are two mosques in the same neighborhood — one four blocks away and one 12 blocks away.

Should they be dismantled? And what about the louche liquor stores and strip clubs in the periphery of the sacred ground?

By now you have to be willfully blind not to know that the imam in charge of the project, Feisal Abdul Rauf, is the moderate Muslim we have allegedly been yearning for. 

Immediately followed by this:

So look where we are. The progressive Democrat in the White House, the first president of the United States with Muslim roots, has been morally trumped by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, two moderate Republicans who have spoken bravely and lucidly about not demonizing and defaming an entire religion in the name of fighting its radicals.

Criticizing his fellow Republicans, Governor Christie said that while he understood the pain and sorrow of family members who lost loved ones on 9/11, “we cannot paint all of Islam with that brush.”

He charged the president with trying to turn the issue into a political football. But that is not quite right. It already was a political football and the president fumbled it. 

The whole column is a screaming paean to the Temple of the Sensible Centrist, she pines for Dubya, Big Dog, Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Christie here but finds Obama's failings to be equal to that of Gingrich and Palin.  Gotta be fair, gotta attack both sides!  Views differ on Earth being round, etc.

Classic MoDo, classic Village "pox on both their houses", classic "Where is our Serious Centrist leader now?" stuff.  She complains bitterly about the lack of First Amendment defense and then tears into Obama for taking a stand on it, then parses his stand as not good enough.

It's obnoxious.