I knew the Wingers would grimly intone the end of the United States of America as we know it due to today's Senate bill passage, but two reactions stand out as some of the worst punditry I can recall seeing on the entire issue. First, Rick Moran warms up paragraph after paragraph of mendacious warnings, calling the bill the "worst piece of legislation in my lifetime" while managing to absolve the GOP...
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Look, Rick, there was zero amount of GOP Senators that ever would have voted for this bill. Until 2013 at the minimum, the Republican Party has abdicated any and all responsibility for legislating anything. They simply vote no and then complain they aren't allowed to run the country anymore. Over a hundred cloture or procedural votes in 2009 alone, Rick. You can't be that dense. Nobody believes for a second the GOP is going to do anything but blockade this Congress.
But then we have a winner for worst Wingnut douchebaggery of 2009 hands down as Dan Riehl directly compares the passage to a terror attack on America:
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Really. This asshole just outright called them terrorists, called the President a terrorist mastermind, and called for the people to rise up against them.
Riehl is so far off the map he's in another year's atlas. This is the kind of stuff that I've been talking about since I started this blog, the level of unbridled, blood-drunk hatred against the Democrats that borders on the delusional and sociopathic.
This is Obama Derangement Syndrome. And it's only getting worse.
This is why I'm glad the Democrats have won - so far - on health care DEform, even though I still think the bill is a piece of shit that will cost Democrats dearly in extra work, extra money, extra time and lots of lost votes.
This bill is making repugs rip out their own eyeballs in rage and despair, and for the moment that's a good enough outcome for me.
