Quote of the Day

The lesson of President Obama's first year is further proof of the theory that the Republicans have a very tough time accepting the fact that the country has elected a president who isn't a Republican. They can't deal with it, so they do everything they can to undermine him and do whatever it takes to bamboozle the electorate -- usually with the cooperation of some Democrats -- into letting the GOP run the show again, usually with impressively disastrous results (see Gingrich, Newt and Bush, George W.).

The one thing the GOP has done is revitalize the right wing nutsery that came of age during the Clinton years. Always burbling in the background and easily dismissed as the cranks and crackpots that they were (and still are), they got their footing with paranoid wet dreams about black helicopters and thought they saw proof of it at Waco. Even before Mr. Clinton took office there were the stories about the "truth" about Bill and Hillary Clinton's drug-running and Mafia connections that today run with the same crowd as the birthers and the mindset that the duly elected president -- without the help of the United States Supreme Court -- didn't deserve to be in office.

I don't object to the Republicans being the opposition party; I do object to them being unoriginal and repetitive. We have another Democrat in the White House, so they're pulling out the same old canards and filling in the blanks like political Mad Libs: "President _____________ is a ______________ so we won't pass ___________ because we don't cooperate with _____________." It's like they haven't had a new idea since Richard Nixon ran for office in 1948. - Mustang Bobby