Lipstick on pork is still pork
Bipartisan now means agreeing with the radical left
Whilst thumbing through our little county's gazette this morning, I choked on a corn flake when I stumbled over this headline: "Now's not the time for partisan rhetoric." It presaged a condescension-filled column by one Bob McElroy, guest columnist and, I assume from the twaddle, dues-paying progressive (or worse, RINO).
Mr. McElroy's high-plumed flummery pronounced all those who have the temerity to question The Messiah's proposed $1.2 trillion Porkulus Package as scoffing, ignorant, greedy partisans. I'm sure a tear of reverential bliss formed in the corner of his eye as he noted that the wealth redistribution plan's "eclectic nature alone requires sober consideration." What blather.
Interspersed between an economics primer, Mr. McElroy also inferred that we ignorant plebeians should conveniently ignore that gang of congressional thugs and their media lap dogs who practiced eight non-stop years' worth of the ugliest, most horrid, hate-filled partisanship -- ever.
For crying in the sink, Bob, do you really think this will stimulate the economy?
As written, the only thing this scheme will stimulate is the national debt, because it is simply laden to the gunwales with payouts and payoffs to the likes of ACORN, National Endowment for the Arts, carbon and energy scams, teachers unions, and an Hispanic-centric 2010 Census cock-up.
Anyone who even considers condoning this bloated contrivance as it has been presented -- in the guise of partisanship -- without first questioning its merit or effectiveness is bordering on delusional. Try taking the time to read the blasted thing in its entirety before its canonization.
Progressive amnesia
And while we're on the subject of partisanship, I suppose that Mr. McElroy and others of his ilk have conveniently forgotten the attack-oriented political culture that the Democrat Party metamorphosed into an art form these past years.
Beginning shortly after President Bush assumed office and running through his second term eight years later, Democrats directed a barrage of non-stop disparagement at Mr. Bush, everything he said, everything he did, and everything he didn't do. The president's bipartisan call for a "new tone" in Washington was mocked by the Democrat Party as they bit off his extended hand of friendship.
Democrat House leaders publicly derided the president as "a miserable failure," Democrat Senate leaders publicly called him a "loser," and the DNC chair and his gaggle of Nutroots publicly equated him with Adolf Hitler. This hate-filled rancor and incivility went on, unabated for eight long years -- and on the world stage.
Right up until the very minute President Bush left office, the Democrat hatred never let up. To his credit, this good and decent man never responded in kind, nor cheapened his high office. Ever. And while the Left was publicly trashing the United States to the unabashed delight of our enemies, it was vengefully savaging our best and brightest young men and women, the all-volunteer members of our armed forces.
Lessons learned
Even today, every other phrase out of Obama's mouth contains an invective against "the last eight years." Congressional Democrats still want to hold Stalinesque show trials on supposed "crimes" of the Bush administration. These are the same partisan, back-stabbing hacks who did all in their power to see the United States fail in Iraq, withold military funding during a time of war, and publicly proclaim the war lost while our best and brightest were still engaged in combat.
Yes indeed, I'm sure it is only coincidental that the time is now for the restoration of political civility -- now that the Democrat Party controls all branches of government, the media, Hollywood, organized labor, and academia.
We have learned our lessons well. Just as the Left taught us these past eight years, criticizing the president or a grotesquely porcine scam when it's warranted is not partisanship -- it's good citizenship.