It's Only Going To Get Uglier, I'm Afraid

For anyone inclined to dismiss the NY Times as East Coast, Elite, Liberal....whatever, be advised that the ridiculous cartoon below is copied from the NYT website.  And, no, it is not from a story about the inane way in which the right is portraying Obama; it is from one of their regular contributors, Glenn McCoy, whose similarly-hilarious cartoons are available all the time.  The only thread which connects them all is his over-the-top, seeming almost personal hatred for the first family.

One of the truly amazing things I have noted about the irrational anti-Obama rants is the fact that he is, apparently at the same time, a bumbling fool who is in completely over his head who can do nothing right and a socialist/communist with a master plan to take over or destroy democracy as we know (or imagine) it. He has also been simultaneously, probably even by the same people, compared to Hitler and Stalin. I know that someone (Einstein? Mark Twain?) said that the mark of a genius is the ability to hold two seemingly contradictory ideas in his mind at the same time.  It is also the mark of a lot of slack-jawed, knuckle-dragging idiots (all of whom have a vote, remember.).

Here is a link to an article by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship called, "The Ghost of Joe McCarthy in Today's Republican Party.


Where are the responsible leaders in the Republican party who will challenge this kind of nonsense from Florida Representative Allen West? 

A Republican and Tea Party favorite, he was asked at a local gathering how many of his fellow members of Congress are “card-carrying Marxists or International Socialists.”

He replied, “I believe there’s about 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party who are members of the Communist Party. It’s called the Congressional Progressive Caucus."

By now, little of what Allen West says ever surprises. He has called President Obama "a low level Socialist agitator," said anyone with an Obama bumper sticker on their car is "a threat to the gene pool" and told liberals like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi to "get the hell out of the United States of America."