I was on a radio show a few days ago and a liberal caller was on the line. Someone on the show asked me what I planned to do over the next few years with Obama in the White House and I said, “Kneecap him at every opportunity.” Bipartisanship came up and I said something akin to, “I’m not interested in bipartisanship. I want to defeat liberalism, not cooperate with it. I want to throw sand in the gears at every opportunity and if Obama wants to work with us, he’s going to move to the right.”
The caller seemed slightly stunned at my attitude, as if he thought now that Obama won, the Right would just roll over and die.
I’ve noticed an undercurrent of that attitude on the Left since the election. It’s as if they’ve had a terrible realization: “Oh my God! They’re going to do to us what we did to them over the last eight years!”
Indeed, we are.
And I plan to enjoy every single moment of doing exactly that.
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Sentiment is right on, with one caveat - as is already clear, conservatives aren’t going to go Godwin, and we will keep it classy - or at least as classy as you can get in politics.
But it’s going to be fun to do whatever I can to destroy the ability of Obama to get any credit for things that go well, ensure he gets the blame for everything from natural disasters to the inherited recession, and simultaneously laugh at him for tacking to the center and deride him for creating a national version of Detroit - or for that matter, Chicago.
For all the people worried about Obama becoming Carter, he should be focused on not becoming the national version of a joke all New Yorkers remember, a man who was elected on exactly the same platform as ‘O’ (post racial, a watershed politician, etc.) and failed miserably.
Now that I think of it, what has become of David Dinkins?
I simply reply in a very mild tone, “I’m going to give our new President exactly the same level of courtesy and support the previous one received.”
There’s usually a few seconds delay, but the dawning look of horror is worth the wait.
” as if he thought now that Obama won, the Right would just roll over and die”
It makes sense, really, that a Liberal would think this. After all, that is exactly what the Democrats have done since they have been out of power. Every idiotic, constitution-shredding, government growing executive action that George Bush came up with, from the Iraq War to the Patriot Act, they went right along with. Bush Jr. is, after all, hardly Machiavelli. The Democrats have been completely passive on his massive liberal agenda, and they naturally expect the same from the new Republican minority.
…and they will probably get it. The ruination we’ve got over the past 8 years has been completely bi-partisan.
Amusing approach, John, but I’m not going to try it at work or in social encounters. Don’t think I could pull it off. Not…brutal enough.
Zurvan?
Wrong blog.
Daily Kos is over there. To our left. To our - but not your - far left.
This is Daily Pundit. We’re Americans here.
GWB did come up with a number of idiotic, constitution-shredding, government-growing clunkers, including NCLB, the Medicare Part D prescription bill, the bailout, the attempted “immigration reform” bill, and signing McCain-Feingold. I’ve also got to admit that there was plenty of crappy handling of many aspects of the Iraq occupation, especially before the Surge retuned it as a proper counterinsurgency mission. There was also overreach in the Patriot Act, as the law enforcement agencies saw 9/11 as a chance to rush through a bunch of new powers that were not really germane to the terror-prevention mission.
What was really galling was that the Bush Admin was so ineffective at using the bully pulpit. Part of this was media bias and blackout, but Bush was not able to explain his case for Gitmo, or the War, or why we still haven’t caught Bin Laden or Zawahiri, or what went wrong with the WMD intelligence, etc. etc. etc. ad nauseam. The far Left was never open to reason on these subjects, but the center was, and Bush wasn’t able to make the case for his more controversial policies. Instead, they seem to have mostly given up on communicating at all and just bunkered up.
Now, I don’t know why Zurvan picked out two Left punching-bag issues and not any of our beefs with GWB - maybe he should be hanging with the KosKidz. Still, his main point is not really deniable. GWB did preside over massive expansion of government, and it was with the collaboration of the Democrats, and often over the protests of the conservatives in the GOP. Why shouldn’t the Dems expect the “bipartisan” RINOs to return the favor?
Don’t forget the “designated free-speech zones” conveniently located half a mile from the convention centres.
martinra - “Zurvan” is a dumbass who occasionally posts here under the pseudo “Smilodon.” He’s one of those America-hating Bill Maher-style “libertarians” who calls me a commie because I don’t loathe Bush for the same reason he does, and because I believe in a vigorous assault on those enemies assaulting us. He thinks libertarianism means pacifism and surrender, and he hates Bush for all the wrong reasons.
He’s a moron of the first water, and he really belongs over with Kos, unless there are crazier cesspools that would fit him even better.
Personally I believe in “MORE, Harder and FASTER”.
And can we start by always referring to this Chicago thug as “Hussein”?
The guys over at Q and O picked up on a couple of Wonderful examples of what the Left really expects…. and the fact that O’s election didn’t slow down their insanity in the slightest.