Treason!

I'm sure everyone now has heard both Rush Limbaugh's comments wishing President Obama will fail and Dick Cheney's comments stirring up the fear card and undermining President Obama's presidency. If these things were done by a Democratic politician or anyone on the left you can be sure of two things. 1) The right wing would be literally calling for the death penalty and accusations of treason would fly everywhere. 2) Our national media, following the din of the right wing media echo chamber, would be making these 24/7 issues for several weeks until the politician resigned or a public mea culpa was issued.

I don't want to hear another word from the right about how the media and Democratic Party fought to undermine the Bush presidency. Here we have, just over two weeks into his presidency, abject proof of undermining the Obama presidency, and far worse than anything from the left beyond the extremes.

The right is now a bankrupt movement, whose ideology has been shown to be a miserable failure and is left with ad hominem attacks on the opposition as its only raison d'etre. Its economic policies are what drove us into the current crisis and all they have left is trying to sink the President-and the United States with him. I am tired of trying to be diplomatic with them, of trying to not be insulting, of giving them some benefit of the doubt. But fuck them. The stakes are now so high that there is no room for President Obama to fail. His failure means the United States is finished: economically, as a world power, as a world leader. We can shuffle off to stage right and allow Russia, China, and India to have the spotlight now.