(Hey, if you’re gonna make fun of “gun-nut” reactionaries, at least give ‘em something plausible)

Please define “harm.” We had eight years of Bush II, six of which with a Republican Congress. What did we get?

Two unfinished wars.
A crippled economy.
A dead major American city.
The largest deficit ever.
The largest Federal government ever.
The largest amount of Federal spending ever.

It’s like you guys can pretend eight years of Republican governance didn’t happen. Guess what? You can’t.

Obama’s presidency is being defined, as we speak, by his attempt to clean up the Bush II/Republican financial mess. Coming close on the heels of that, whether or not Obama can salvage something from the incompetent handling of Iraq and Afghanistan. My guess is he will, but just as with the economy, you can’t clean up eight years of Republican idiocy overnight.

Hate on Obama all you want. I realize you sort of have to, given your ideological brain-washing. But at least admit that Republicans did a hell of a lot of “harm” when they had control of all branches of government. And this comes as no surprise — Republicans are the party that hates government. And they’ve proven to us Americans that, indeed, they really suck at it when given the chance.

I think those two things alone make for Dems to be more likely to “get” the next paradigm, but you’re correct that it shouldn’t be taken for granted.

We don’t know what the “next” medium will be and I don’t think anyone can honestly say which side will warm up to it first.

Of course, on the right you’ve got wing-nut welfare recipients, many of whom had to stop blogging when sugar-daddy Charles Johnson stopped giving them an allowance.

By the time the Right “figures out” a viable inernet-based network for raising money and micro-targetting close races, we’ll be on to a new paradigm anyways. What that is, who knows, but the left, natural progressives that they are, will be way ahead of the curve.

Fixed.

(I’ve seen you make that mistake more than once. Personally, my fingers INSIST on typing “teh” instead of “the” in words like the and then. Your fingers have their own tendency to make the their/there/they’re mixup?)

And the results from the right at trying to copy the very successful model they decry? Red State Strike Force, boo ya!

Wow, that’ll show you liberals once and for all that they are a serious force to contend with!

As Repack said, Limbaugh has the ears of less than 10% of the GOP electorate, but 100% of the GOP leadership. A pathetic leadership that faces the danger of being rejected by the electorate if they continue to swear fealty to an unelectable drug addict.

And if Rushbo’s such a kingmaker, how come his party got their balls fed to them last November (and, possibly, this past Tuesday in NY)?

I didn’t consider this Blow guy a left-wing blogger, and what I stated was more or less a compliment to the posters here (with a few exceptions). Many of them are far more circumspect than this column was. His column wouldn’t be a good article or blog post by even a middle-tier blogger. What I said wasn’t a dig at left-wing bloggers. Most of the better ones put in more thought and better examples than this guy did. What he wrote was just the usual three-week old crap you guys got bored with a while ago, or maybe are stating to anyway.

Curiously though, he didn’t mention Rush Limbaugh.

It’s not like Oklahoma City slowed them down. Heck, they used Crazy Laurie Mylroie’s theory that Saddam was behind the bombing as an excuse to invade Iraq.

Sixteen — that’s 16 — people have died in less than 48 hours and all right-wingers can do is stand by and say, “Well, I didn’t think anyone would take me seriously when I said immigrants were stealing all of the jobs or that Obama is going to come take all their guns. It’s not my fault they listened to me.”

Charles Blow advocates public flogging, screeches at hyperbole

From his column on Tuesday:

I’m not saying that the Despots of Detroit deserve a break (Wagoner should be flogged in the streets for the Hummer alone), but the use of the guillotine could be a tad more egalitarian.

His column wouldn’t even be considered a decent comment on a blog like this, much less an informative blog article.

As to the danger of the black helicopter crowd, the danger of pushing loopy wingnuts over the edge is real. A cursory look at the history of political violence in the history of this country will show that the vast majority of it comes from the right: from busting civil rights marchers and antiwar protestors to murderously attacking unions (hell, go all the way back to Preston Brooks nearly beating Charles Sumner to death in the Senate with his cane!). What few examples are usually trotted out the other way from the 19th and early 20th centuries are usually the fault of anarchists, not the actual left.

Yes, yes, we all know there was that terrible rampage by Bill Ayres’ mighty Weather Underground armies, but the few unfortunate people killed by those wackos are but a drop of water compared to the comprehensive ocean of right wing violence over the history of the U.S.

Thus, the fat fucker’s influence on his party’s rank and file is grossly overstated.

If Rushbo isn’t such an influence, why has Michael “MC” Steele(among many other Republicans), rushed to apologize after speaking the truth about Limbaugh? Why did they need to apologize for calling him the hate monger he is? Sounds to me like he is more a “kingmaker” than Markos.