The Rabid Right

Apparently, Tea Party Terrorists, you still want to kill the hostages. After all, what do you know about thinking of the needs of your fellow man. Compassion is as foreign a word to you people as the word compromise (among many others).

What should have been a clean deal on whether or not to raise the debt ceiling was hijacked the way of the 9/11 airplanes by the ruthless, illogical, egotistical and downright vicious extreme right in Congress and aimed nose first into the towers that are the poor and oppressed lower and middle classes in this country, loading these planes with unnecessary heavy-set cargo in the form of additional demands to further their wicked agenda in favor of the filthy rich. Even Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell admited the debt ceiling was a hostage "worth ransoming".  The extreme right simply said "we'll address the debt ceiling issue but not unless we get this and this and this and this while we're at it, too" and the mainstream right failed at bringing them in line otherwise. And because the debt ceiling deadline was looming, without compliance of which the government would have gone into default leading to a very plausible economic debacle with potentially global repercussions, President Obama, in a case of being caught between a rock and a hard place, simply went along with it. And Speaker Boehner now brags that they he got 98% of what he wanted.

Frankly? I would have much rather seen Obama resort to the 14th amendment, if for no other reason than a) to see him be more of a democrat, in hopes of seeing him stand up for democrat principles, and b) because the worsening of the current economic situation (for the average American, of course) which will unravel from this deal will be tagged on nobody's head but his own. This, despite the fact that this deal was born out of Republican minds by Republican congressmen in the House. The right will categorically stop at nothing to shatter the Obama administration in every way, from every angle. To the rest of America and the world Obama may appear as the most compromising president in recent history, perhaps too compromising, but the rabid right will not cease until they've buried his name in the history books as a 1-term president (in the likes of George H.W. Bush et al).  Obama truly is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. All part of the modern-day lynching that the right have been dead set on carrying out since January 20, 2009.

Meanwhile, you have representative Doug Lamborn (R-CO) referring to President Obama as a "tar baby", you have Pat Buchanan referring to him as "boy", you have representative Joe Walsh (R-IL) recently saying he doesn't want to impose a financial burden on his children while exposed as a revolting dead-beat dad, and in a most shameless, filthy act of profiteering, presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee has decided that it's OK to cash in on the cruelest assault on American lives in American soil by selling cartoon videos indoctrinating our children on his skewed version of history.  Interestingly, this video stamps the word "DECEASED" over a caricature of Osama Bin Laden then follows this with a George W. Bush cartoon giving a speech through a megaphone over the rubble of the twin towers, easily confusing any easily-confusable child viewer into thinking that Bin Laden was killed before the cleanup of the towers was even finished, when in fact Bin Laden was killed "just the other day" by the Obama administration, not Bush's. I imagine that the families of the 9/11 victims will not see a penny from all of the profits Huckabee will garner out of this. After all, there's no claim to the contrary on his "Learn Our History" website.

That this type of right-winged indoctrination parallels that carried out during Nazi Germany or Zedong China is a most fitting comparison, to say the least. It's as if the right is on a relentless quest to reinvent and rewrite all of history. Hollywood would be hardpressed to come up with story lines like these.

Really.... I mean, how do these people sleep at night. The Bible-beating, ignorant, amoral right. Nauseating. Despicable. Rabid.