Liberal chattering class unhinged

TownHall.com ^ | 29 Nov. 2004 | David Limbaugh

[txradioguy]

The liberal chattering class has literally gone off its collective rocker. Little negative has occurred since the election -- cabinet shakeups are routine and traditional, and our guys routed the bad guys in Fallujah -- but the way the Left is carrying on you'd think President Bush had issued a string of corrupt pardons, or something.

I wouldn't think Democrat angst could get much worse. Democrats have acted like victims of robbery the last four years, but now they're acting like women scorned, rejected by a dueling banjo-wielding electorate. I guess I suspected they'd take their losses badly, but I didn't realize they'd unshackle all gentlemanly restraints on their septic bitterness.

During the campaign they conjured up all these imaginary misdeeds that President Bush and Vice President Cheney had engaged in, from their fantasies that they lied about Iraqi WMD to the distribution of favors to Halliburton to augment VP Cheney's blind-trusted pocketbook. Each of their fraudulent claims was too preposterous to be taken seriously by any but the gullible class, many of whom were taken in by sheer repetition.

You would think that they would have run out of ammunition by now. Don't they ever take a breath? How about just faking cordiality for some minimal honeymoon period? In their unyielding malice and hatred have we finally discovered a perpetual motion machine?

Since the election, liberals have ratcheted up their seething rhetoric, acting as though President Bush, by merely reshuffling his cabinet, has committed a new rash of felonies. They are portraying him as a Machiavellian dictator exerting total control over his docile advisors, from whom he has extracted every ounce of independence en route to an unprecedented Stalinization of American presidential power. This is the same man they depicted but a few short weeks ago as a sock-puppet figurehead fronting for the de facto president, Dick Cheney, and the neocon cabal.

By substituting his longtime confidante Condoleezza Rice for Colin Powell, President Bush has brazenly shown that he really does think he won the election and has the right to try to implement his agenda.

How dare he act as though he is constitutionally entitled to the office when he only received 51 percent of the popular vote! Doesn't he realize he's supposed to relinquish half his authority to Democrats because they got almost half the votes?

Something really isn't right in Liberalville. From their chauvinistic, racial slurs against Condoleezza Rice to their hysterical paranoia contemplating President Bush's next geopolitical move, they have descended to new depths of nastiness.

It's not just the cartoonists with their demeaning sketches and degrading captions. The editorialists are morphing into Maureen Dowds, as if in a contest to see which one of them can describe the current scene with the least connection to reality, and even less to common decency, good cheer or the slightest hint of optimism.

The op-ed pages are even more pregnant with anti-Bush screeds than before the election. As just one example, Sydney Blumenthal, former Clinton senior advisor, had plenty of venom to spew in his latest Salon.com column. After detailing how the Bush administration exploited, deceived and cashiered Colin Powell, Blumenthal savaged Condoleezza Rice as an incompetent, opportunistic backstabber.

Blumenthal wrote, "As incompetent as she was at her actual job, she was as agile at bureaucratic positioning. Early on she figured out how to align with the neoconservatives and to damage Powell. Her usurpation is a lesson to him in blind ambition and loyalty."

And of the administration, Blumenthal said, "In this strange Soviet Washington, a system of bureaucratic fear and one-party allegiance has been created in which only loyalists are rewarded. Rice stands as the model. One can never be too loyal. And the loyalists compete to outdo each other. Dissonant information is seen as motivated to injure the president -- disloyalty bordering on treason. Success is defined as support for the political line, failure as departure from the line. An atmosphere of personal vendetta and an incentive system for suppressing realities prevail. This is not an administration; it does not administer -- it is a regime."

Sydney and his cohorts need to get a grip. President Bush hasn't suddenly acquired a newfound disrespect for the limitations of his office. The Bush-bashers would be well to remember that we're still in the United States, and the president is operating and will continue to, under lawful authority.

If he exceeds his authority, there are proper checks in place to deal with that. But merely exerting his authority, which is all he is doing, is not abusing it. If these poison penners don't quit crying wolf over nothing every other minute, they'll lose what little credibility they have left.

[txradioguy]

David's big brother was right yet again...the RATS are much more humerous when they're out of power than when they are running the show.

Reminds me of a bunch of Chicken Littles running around screaming "the sky is falling".

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

[And of the administration, Blumenthal said, "...a system...has been created in which only loyalists are rewarded."]

Well, duh!

[LiberalBassTurds]

This guys a great writer. Perfect analysis of the pathetic Left.

BUMP!

Thanks for the logo Safrguns!

[Horatio Gates]

I'm enjoying watching the Rats unravel. Their collective hate for President Bush is rudderless now that the election is over and they have no goal to focus on for a while other than figuring out why they are losers.

[sheik yerbouty]

The 'rats have a case of electile dysfunction..

[Owl558]

The more they go off the deep end, the more people wake up to their lies and half-truths. I think a lot of these leftists are coming to realize that their ability to set the nation's agenda through the lapdog media has come to an end. Rice is (hopefully) going to gut the appeasement at all costs crowd in the State Department and loosen the leftist hold over that department.

[Blue Jays]

Good Morning All-

If you really want to read from a completely unhinged (like a mental patient off his meds) leftist, look up this writer named Mark Morford at the San Francisco Chronicle. That cat needs professional help before he hurts someone.

~ Blue Jays ~

[GeronL]

NOV 29!!!!

[loboinok]

If these poison penners don't quit crying wolf over nothing every other minute, they'll lose what little credibility they have left.

Too late...way too late!

[Daaave]

Sid "The Squid" Blumenthal

Sherman, set the Wayback Machine to 1999

"And now, the slithering, lowlife, lying slimeball, Sid The Squid Blumenthal is also implicated in perjury, on behalf of Clinton. He's a well-known liar, and ultra lib-Dem scumbag, who secretly smeared Lewinsky and numerous Republicans with scandalous rumors about irrelevant, past sexual indiscretions"

http://www.gdnctr.com/feb_12_99.htm

"Lawmakers call for investigation of Blumenthal"

"In his Senate deposition, Blumenthal said he had "no idea" how negative comments about Lewinsky came to be attributed to a White House source in the media."

"In a sworn affidavit and in an appearance Sunday on NBC's "Meet The Press," journalist Christopher Hitchens said Blumenthal told him and other reporters derogatory information about Monica Lewinsky, including a description of her as a stalker."

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/02/07/blumenthal/

[Jaysun]

....as if in a contest to see which one of them can describe the current scene with the least connection to reality, and even less to common decency, good cheer or the slightest hint of optimism.

Hehehe. I like David Limbaugh

[Jaysun]

If you really want to read from a completely unhinged (like a mental patient off his meds) leftist, look up this writer named Mark Morford at the San Francisco Chronicle. That cat needs professional help before he hurts someone.

You weren't kidding Blue Jays. For those that don't bother to look him up, here's a few excerpts from just one of his articles:

And we supposedly had more of the youth vote and the disenfranchised single-female vote ......and still the dragon just sneered and hacked up another fireball of bogus fear and evangelical Christian self-righteousness and torched our glimmering sword of juicy hope into a smoking cinder.

And now, this. The nation has officially, stupefyingly handed the world's worst president a blank check to do whatever he and his cronies like, without fear of major repercussions or voter disillusionment or damage to an imminent re-election campaign, because there won't be one.

You want a place, you say, that doesn't right this minute seem to be working heroically to make homophobia and born-again fundamentalism and pre-emptive isolationist warmongering and environmental ignorance a national religion. A place where SUVs aren't considered minor deities and where gay people aren't loathed for wanting to slice a wedding cake and where brazen heavily narcotized denial in the face of a veritable mountain of presidential lies isn't the national pastime.

Tempting, isn't it? To just move away to a sunnier, clothing-optional utopia and wait for it all to be over, for the dark days to pass and the Shrub era to sink into the tar pits of history and the fog to finally lift?"

Damn kook.

[Tom Bombadil]

Blumenthal savaged Condoleezza Rice as an incompetent, opportunistic backstabber.

Oops! That wasn't Condi I was looking at. It was my own reflection in a mirror!

Sydney should learn not to throw such boomerangs.

[Route101]

The Demoncats never take a breath.....

[sauropod]

Miss Morford is well known here.

[guitfiddlist]

It is time to press the attack. As they would say "Power grows out of the barrel of a gun" - but we need to say it with a smile nonetheless. This as opposed to trying to find common ground with them by finding something we both are displeased with the Bush administration about.

This is as much a lesson to me as to anybody else - because I've made that mistake - constantly - in the past. Take no prisoners - they respect raw power...which is the POWER of your convictions - and how you back it up, but we don't need to descend to their level. It's a tough balancing act - but remember - never get down in the mud and wrestle with a pig. Cuz you're both gonna get sloppy and stinky...but the thing is...the pig LIKES it.

[LibSnubber]

"The editorialists are morphing into Maureen Dowds..."

Oh man, slammed!

I, for one, hope they continue to act like this. By 2008, the libs should be just about finished putting the final nails in their party's coffin. Can't help but love watching these unhinged, angry idiots act like they're on the outside looking in and incapable of doing a dang thing about it. Thank You God for keeping these vile snakes out of the White House for at least another four years!

[txradioguy]

It just boggles me that when the RATS lose and election...they immediately start crying about needing to "build a bridge" and make a "bipartisian effort" to "reach across the aisle" when it comes to conducting the business of this country. But when the RATS have been in power lately...all they offer the GOP is a big MIDDLE FINGER.

And I never heard all this carping wither when Clintoon did what he could to give his "friends" jobs during the second term.