You have to have some respect for the insane warriors of the Right. You really do. They just called Lindsey Graham Rep. South Carolina out for being INSUFFICIENTLY Conservative. As if he could move any further to the right without falling off the flat biblical earth!
And instead of just shrugging my shoulders at another example of right-wing madness, after reading this article in ThinkProgress, it made me think. When the hell are we going to get OUR Congressmen to FEAR us, the way Graham has to fear a group of 100 lunatics with signs that read: "Unconstitutional Anti-Christ Socialist Federal Deficit Spending Programs?"
And it occurs to me that we've been in a state of all-out culture war since 1968! And their side is just fighting harder. Given that kind of passion, you have to ask in all seriousness: "why haven't they won yet?"
Why haven't they been able to convene a Constitutional convention to outlaw deficit spending and abortion? And the only answer is that the things they want to do are just bat-shit insane. That's all. Most people don't want them.
I just wish we could all say "F.U.!" Just screw yourselves. We're going to ram socialized medicine down your throats. Just because we can!
"Not the garbage YOU call "socialized medicine" because you haven't a clue what that even means, I mean we just have a National Health Service like Britain and to hell with you and the insurance lobby.
"We know you hate it. That gives us an extra thrill, knowing that you right-wingers out in Tennessee are just flat blowing a gasket."
Because that's exactly how the right wing has treated every "liberal" and every liberal idea, since Lyndon Johnson on. We're just all DFH's to them. And it's just a total state of permanent war to them that never ceases. And we've been in a state of unilateral disarmament. Where's the Democrat on national TV who could boldly say, as Michelle Maklin just did: "God save us from bi-partisanship!"
I mean, how many real hippies have you seen around recently? Outside northern California maybe? It's been 40 years and the right-wing has still got their heads stuck in the 60's trying to punish the counter-culture for wearing bell-bottoms and having long hair.
And since they can't find any REAL "hippies" in any position of authority, we're ALL just DFH's.
Notice it's effective. Notice that EVERY Republican Congressman is AFRAID of those town hall lunatics. Look at the reaction to Graham standing up to them for even one second (he'll soon have to cave in and issue a tearful apology -- it is South Carolina after all):
This unhinged response is reflected in the conservative blogosphere, where Graham has been called a "fake Republican," "RINO" (Republican in name only), a "traitor," "disgrace," "asshat," "democrat in drag," and a "wussypants, girly-man, half-a-sissy":
Liberty Journal: Vote out the traitors who seek control of you with the use of your money paid in the form of taxes.
Mike Proto: Quite honestly, it is growing tiresome having to report on another fake Republican who is selling us out. In this case, it is the RINO senior senator from South Carolina, Lindsey Graham. . . . Now, the faux Republican is teaming up with none other than John ‘F’n’ Kerry on C(r)ap & Trade.
Gateway Pundit: Senator Graham is a disgrace.
Ross Kaminsky: Lindsey Graham is little more than Barack Obama’s useful idiot, a man who clearly has no interest in the scientific data and who is so desirous of "doing something" that he barely cares what it is he gets done.
Dan Riehl: Why does SC continue to re-elect this doofus with a bad haircut?
Bruce Tyson: The RINO traitor to all that is right, just, and good, South Carolina’s own Lindesey Graham [sic] has done it again: this time siding with John Kerry on climate change fraud.
And so on. Can you imagine left blog-sphere acting like we should turn out John Kerry because he wanted to work with some Republicans on a bill to strengthen security at our ports or something?
The fact that those lunatics are willing to scream at their own right-wing corporate whore Congressmen, that's great. That's what WE should be doing. Except that we're so happy just to have a President who isn't a total flaming sphincter for the first time in forever, that we're happy.
"Wow! The President isn't just a total mental defective, so I don't have to wake up every day and take a deep breath before I read the news. 'OK' what insane thing has this Ass**** done today? Has he threatened war or invaded another country? No? Great! Has another American city drowned while he was taking a nap? No? Then I can eat my cereal without the stench of doom hanging over my bowl. Until tomorrow."
"So Obama sold us out on health care? At least he didn't start a war and invade another country for no reason at all!"
And we're satisfied with that, and we don't go out and burn our Democratic representatives in effigy because they're selling us out.
Well, maybe those right-wing lunatics have a point. At least THEY get some respect.
They may be crazier than 100 bats on LSD, but they've got their own Congressmen AFRAID of them!
And that would be an incredible step up for us: if somebody actually was AFRAID that if they screwed us over we might actually DO something! Like burn them in effigy maybe. Like turn out and stand all day in the hot sun in front of the town square with a Huge bill-board showing our local Congressman dressed up like Hitler.
Except of course that if we actually did anything like that on a national level, the corporate media would froth totally at the mouth 24/7 calling for a state of national emergency and massive use of force against any dissenters to forestall the revolution.
But, we're going to have to do SOMETHING to stop the rot. It's blindingly clear by now that the Democrats we worked to elect last year are certainly NOT representing us. They may be working for the insurance and banking lobbies, but we can expect nothing significant from them but corporate sell-outs, one after another.