Hillary Clinton tells me so.
Posted on 03/04/2009 3:43:52 PM PST by neverdem
What's wrong with rooting against our elected officials?
Is it inherently unpatriotic or immoral to want to see a president fail? After chewing over the larger implications of that vital question, I've come to a conclusion: I am a twisted human being. Thankfully, I'm not alone.
You see, when I'm not wasting time greedily praying to be rich, I plead with some higher power to sentence my middling local representatives to painful obscurity and professional failure. My congresswoman, for instance, carries an intellectual confidence so severely out of step with her skill set that the promise of disappointment, I trust, one day will bring me great joy.
If we can't look to our politicians to fulfill our yearly schadenfreude quota, whom can we trust?
Which brings me to radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh, who recently, at a conservative conference, had the temerity to reiterate his desire that President Barack Obama "fail"—not the economy or nation, mind you, but the politician. Pundits across the nation went into apoplectic tizzy fits over such blasphemous and ugly thoughts.
Since when is rooting for the success of an ideologically driven elected official a civic duty, you may wonder? Wonder no more. It merely depends on the politician.
Limbaugh's comments were, apparently, so abhorrent that the host is accused now of being the de facto voice of conservatism and the Republican Party.
That, as we all know, is technically impossible, considering someone actually is listening to Rush Limbaugh. Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, went so far as to call the radio host the "voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican Party."
That is a neat trick. If Limbaugh is the voice of conservatism, conservatism must want Obama and, thus, America to fail. After eight years of seething hatred—plenty of it deserved—for George W. Bush, this brand of contrived indignation touches a new level of creative dishonesty.
Of course, there is always some gullible and amateurish Republican spokesman—which is to Washington what a hooker is to Las Vegas (or, uh, so I'm told)—who picks a needlessly counterproductive fight with Limbaugh. Inevitably, the Republican offers a feeble apology regarding the "inarticulate" or "inartful" initial statement.
The Democrats call this transaction "kissing the ring."
Democrats don't kiss rings. They don't pick fights with allies. Democrats are about peace, after all. Half the Democratic Party's leaders would show up at a Daily Kos convention, and that Web site peddles some of the hardest far-left ideas in this country. I guess you could make the case that progressive bloggers are the intellectual force and energy behind the Democratic Party.
Democrats don't tell union bosses who bankroll their campaigns to buzz off. They rarely question their president. Congress doesn't even bother reading the trillion-dollar bills they send to Obama to sign.
Republicans, conversely, are fighting over their future—a future that grass-roots figures, such as Limbaugh, certainly will be a part of. In the meantime, Democrats are hoping Republicans fail to come to a consensus and regroup, even though two vibrant parties are always healthier for the nation than one.
And many of us are hoping that all those in power fail, because those in power have a grating habit of being annoyingly self-righteous, hopelessly corrupt, resolutely incompetent and completely apathetic about the freedoms that they have sworn to protect.
Embrace the failure. It's patriotic.
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Hypocrites.
dissent is patriotic
power to the people
fight the man!
Obama is to be considered a criminal president until he produces proof of citizenship.
Because he is a black guy. You are racist for not agreeing with the messiah black dude. He knows all. All doing. All communist.
Lets use their own medicine and tactics against them.
“Obama is to be considered a criminal president until he produces proof of citizenship.”
And Proof ACORN did not Cheat!
this all becomes Academkic when the Great Bankruptcy strikes. China will get Asia, Russia will get most of Europe and its old empire and we get to line up for moldy bread while praising the Great Dear Leader.
Thank you for correcting that. What was I thinking?
Well, he does occupy the office, I guess.
“The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.”
“Theodore Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star” - May 7, 1918
>> I plead with some higher power to sentence my middling local representatives to painful obscurity
Painful obscurity?
That’s the best you can plead for? Harsanyi, you piker.
I pray for blood to squirt ten feet out of their every pore. And that’s when I’m in a BENEVOLENT mood. When I’m feeling mean... well, you don’t even want to know.
“Republicans, conversely, are fighting over their future”
Reason.com, you may not agree with us conservatives but this is also about your future. You also need to stand up strongly against Obama.
Regardless of whether Obama succeeds, fails, or treads water, I am hardpressed to name any policy he has adopted which I support. And I won’t, unless it can be demonstrated that these policies are good ideas.
Hillary Clinton tells me so.
My congresswoman President Obama, for instance, carries an intellectual confidence so severely out of step with her his skill set that the promise of disappointment, I trust, one day will bring me great joy.
There - fixed it.
Oh no, the Rats and Leftists weren’t rooting against President Bush and the US military.
They were just rooting for the enemy including Al Qaeda and Saddam’s thugs who they raised money for and sent. They called them ‘the resistance’ and we know about Michael Moore and his support of the Saddam/Al Qaeda “Minutemen” now don’t we.
in my opinion, if you are an elected republican and you are not fighting tooth and nail to stop the 0bama administration at every turn... then you do not deserve the seat you occupy.
if you are not going to fight the enemy of Reagan’s America, then step aside so others may.
by not getting in front of the cameras and explaining time and again why soviet Amerika is a bad thing, you are aiding and abetting the enemy.
you were elected to defend CONSERVATIVE or at the very least, republican viewpoints.
do it... or resign
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