The wingers are having a collective breakdown over the President's comments this week, first on the gravity of the Supreme Court's ruling on health care reform on Monday, and second his remarks on the GOP's House budget
on Tuesday. His critics are in nothing short of complete apoplexy
right now, barely able to type without collapsing into inchoate rage.
"Barack Obama, Constitutional Ignoramus"
declares Power Line's Steven Hayward as he accuses the President of
"extreme constitutional ignorance". Commentary Magazine's John Steele Gordon says there's "simply no lie President Obama will not tell in pursuit of his agenda." Allahpundit at Hot Air
notes that in retaliation for "moronic" speech that a Fifth Circuit
Reagan appointee went after a DOJ lawyer, demanding that she explain
"her boss's" comments to him in written form before the court.
This
is all over the President daring to say that the Supreme Court should
practice the conservative tenet of judicial restraint. For this, he is a
liar, an ignoramus, and a moron. Projection much, gentlemen?
Oh,
and it gets worse. Yesterday's remarks on the GOP budget were treated
with similar outright hatred. the President pointed out that the Ryan
plan was cynical, and that it represented a failure on the part of the
myth of trickle-down prosperity. The words clearly hit home. Yuval Levin at National Review sputtered that his speech "was basically just a long, dishonest way of saying the same astonishingly irresponsible thing." Townhall's Guy Benson
declared it "Obama's worst speech yet" and thundered that it was "what
very well may have been the most dishonest, demagogic, and bitterly
partisan speech of his presidency." Allahpundit (again) remarked "Do we actually have to start a Godwin watch for this campaign?"
Just because these leading lights of the wingnutosphere say it, doesn't make it the truth. But at this point any
speech that President Obama makes from now on will be treated as if he
took a steaming dump on the Constitution and then lit it on fire. And
it's only April. The projection here of these guys is extraordinary,
and yet any rational observer should have expected this the moment it
looked like the GOP primary was in its endgame. That's what has
happened this week, and the response is clearly a harbinger of far more
terrible things to come.
I keep having to believe that the goal
here is to just treat everything the President does with such
unremitting rancor that America simply walks away from the entire
political process and leaves it to the fanatics. It worked well enough
in 2010. We have our work cut out for us in 2012, which is one of the
main reasons I'm here.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
A Peek Inside The Echo Chamber
StupidiTags(tm):
Legal Stupidity,
Obama Derangement Syndrome,
Wingnut Stupidity
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