GOP War On Obama? No, Dems Fiddling While Rome Burns

Theoretical political commentator and part time trigger* moonbat Andrew Sullivan daily dishes his warped reality upon the blogosphere with the vaguely identifiable impersonation of a journalist to continued, inexplicable notoriety. Yesterday in a post titled "Gregg Was Pwned," in which he posited that Judd Gregg's hand was forced by a Republican policy of "total warfare" on Sullivan's precious, he dropped this gem:

I have to say even I am a little taken aback by the force of the Republican assault. Even in a downturn as swift and alarming as this one, even after an election that clearly favored one approach over another, even after the most conciliatory efforts by an incoming president in memory, these people have gone to war against the president.

Sullivan is just touting ... parroting, the growing left-wing meme that GOP objection to the stimulus package isn't genuine, but rather a calculated bit of combat in a new "war on Obama". Let's leave aside, for now, the implicit and absurd idea that all-out warfare against a president is a new idea (cough Bush cough). How fitting is it that in the debate about a massive expansion of Big Brother such a dictatorial interpretation of events should surface? The state is everything, and everything is the state? Or more accurately, Obama is everything?

Democrats took the moment of danger and opportunity, the President's first big play, and used it to create a behemoth of bad spending, pork, and giveaways. They chose to betray, again, the trust of the people who so recently delivered unto them the massive powers they now wield. Instead of composing a legitimate stimulus package, they've birthed a beast that will burden Americans for generations to come. The unserious and self-interested porkers behind this bill, with the blessing and complicity of the inept Obama administration, are using the politics of fear to cram their wish list through, using techniques worthy of Pravda to try to trick the American people and attempt to force Republican lawmakers to sign on and lend it the mirage of bipartisanship. This has nothing to do with a war on Obama, except in as much as Obama and his congressional minions (if indeed that is the direction of leadership) have declared war on the American pocketbook.

We go to war in defense, Andrew, not on offense. The only offense here is the casual presumption of ignorance of the voters on the part of the Democrats, who've abandoned all their campaign rhetoric and all their promises of transparency and accountability in their frenzied trough-feeding.

As Congressman John Shadegg said today, it's fitting that this horror is being given its unnatural life on this Friday the 13th.

This entire process has been a horror story. The exclusion of Republicans. The pork and paybacks for special interests. The secret, closed-door meetings. The mammoth bill text kept hidden until hours before the vote.

And that, of course, is precisely correct, as opposed to Sullivan's laughable "the most conciliatory efforts by an incoming president in memory." Cognitive dissonance is a way of life for some. In fact, it's a way of life for many in the new age of Obama; as I previously noted, Obama's structure of the permanent campaign keeps his supporters in full-time cover mode, unable to gainsay the president without indicting themselves along with, a situation writ large in the groups and organizations that changed their allegiance to Obama during the campaign.

And where is the interest of the American people in this? It's being served by the Republicans who are showing uncharacteristic backbone by having the audacity to stand athwart the porkulus and yell stop. The democrat talking point of late is that there is an obstructionist GOP at war with Obama. If they want to look at it that way that's fine. But unlike the Democrats and their pet Sullivans, for Republicans not everything is about Obama. This is about a disaster of a spending bill that is being force-fed to the nation by an administration and congress who opted to use the crashing economy as an excuse to self-gratify.

Today, House Republicans held the line and refused to crumble before the cries for speed and the false armageddon promised by the One to any who would thwart his will. If that is war ... then it's a war I wholeheartedly endorse.



*trigger: troofers believe 9/11 was a conspiracy, birfers believe Obama was born in Kenya. Triggers believe trig is Bristol's baby.