Bloodthirsty Liberal

I share this brief vid with you not only because its message—Congress should read the bills it passes—is valid and relevant, but because that inoffensive message gives rise to Bush Derangement Syndrome spasms and tics in the comments at The Politico the likes of which we haven’t seen since Chimpy and his lady rode out of town on their winged steed:

Read The Bill from Sunlight Foundation on Vimeo.

Nice idea. Where were they when Bush was ramming down his crap?

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it’s amazing how all of a sudden everyone has found a conscience…

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Love that last one. USA PATRIOT Act: 0 hours. That bill was jammed down the throats more than anything else in history.

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THE REPUBS AND LIMBIGOT AND KLANNITY DONT NEED TO READ THE BILL. THERE ANSWER WAS NO WAY BACK BEFORE THE BILL WAS WRITTEN. THEY SAID NO NOVEMBER 5 2008.

A note to all our readers: if you can’t spell, stay away from ALL CAPS.

But there you go: Obama could garrote the Easter Bunny with a length of barbed wire on the South Lawn of the White House in front of an audience of pre-schoolers—and the left would still scream that Bush personally draped panties on the heads of Iraqi prisoners and faked a turkey.

To put it in terms the moonbats can understand, Bush can’t read. Asking him to spend 72 hours puzzling through a 1,000+ page bill is worse torture than anything Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, and John Ashcroft (and a fifth of Jack Daniels) could think among themselves.

BDS is like malaria: it can flare up at any time.

Michelle Malkin is in “trouble” for posing for a photograph with someone holding a—oh, why bother to describe it?

Take a look:

Oooh. How evil.

How have we come to this dark place from the innocence of recent days when these images lightened our hearts?

Michelle herself runs down the long laundry list of Bush/Hitler comparisons.

But we’re barking up the wrong linden tree. Obama is not Hitler, not least because he has no balls, compared to Hitler’s one.

No, the hero worship and cult of personality leads us inexorably to another, perhaps even worse, mass-murderer:

Michelle Malkin notes that this Inauguration Day, unlike last time, we can’t spend enough money:

President Obama’s Chicago machine is kicking into high gear to plan and fund his massive, unprecedented inaugural festivities. He just appointed an inauguration planning committee that includes his hometown cronies William Daley and Penny Pritzker. They’ve got a campaign-style website counting down the days to the massive party in Washington.

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All of which reminded me of the unhinged Left’s protests in late 2004 before the Bush inaugural. He was bashed for continuing the American tradition in a time of war and for holding parties so soon after the southeast Asian tsunami disaster.

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In fact, let me reprint Democrat Rep. Weiner’s entire protest letter from January 11, 2005:

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The festivities surrounding your inauguration later this month are slated to cost $40 million – making this the most expensive inauguration in history. I urge you to re-direct those funds towards a use more fitting to these sober times – bonuses or equipment for our troops.

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With an estimated 1.5 million people expected to descend on Washington for the Obama festivities and a federal tax bill alone of at least $50 million, next January’s inauguration will dwarf Bush’s inaugural events and expenses. We are still at war. And, as the Democrats remind us, economic times are tough and average Americans are hurting.

Oh, I don’t know, Michelle. They’re not hurting that bad:

…Barack Obama mugs, T-shirts, stationery, posters, postcards, notecards, aprons, coasters, dog jerseys, throw pillows and mouse pads. With so many segments of the economy in the fetal position, the Obama memorabilia business is one of the very few that is actually thriving.

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At CafePress.com there are 96,000 different Obama-related designs for sale, according to vice president of marketing Amy Maniatis. That includes a T-shirt that says “Now I don’t have to move to Canada” and a poster that says “Once you go Barack, you’ll never go back.”

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“This is our third election, and for us, what we saw in 2000 and 2004 was really different,” Maniatis says. “There was a lot of anti-Bush merchandise after those elections.” Anti-Bush stuff sold so well for so many years that there was genuine concern at CafePress that the end of the president’s second term would hurt the company’s bottom line. (”Economists Warn Anti-Bush Merchandise Market Close to Collapse” read a recent headline in the Onion.) Instead, Obama love has more than offset the downturn.

I guess that’s one industry we won’t have to bail out. But what are we going to do with all those BusHitler baby bibs and 1.20.09 dog jerseys taking up space in our garage? Who’ll buy those toxic assets?

We don’t have to say it ourselves: the actions of others say it for us. But here goes, anyway:

It’s not what Barack stands for—he stands pretty much for anything, from radical socialism to crypto-fascism—it’s all about what stands against Bush.

As Red Skelton was reputed to have remarked about the large crowds at movie mogul Harry Cohn’s funeral: give the people what they want, and they’ll come out for it.

They come not praise Obama, but to bury Bush.

Or, as was said about the crowds at movie mogul Louis B. Mayer’s funeral: they just wanted to make sure he was dead.