I'm a nonfiction author by trade, and I think it's time to start collecting all the examples of the right wing insanity and put them in a book, a website, a podcast, all of the above. We could call it "Year of Living Delusionally: Conservatives in the Age of Obama" or something.

Seriously, this needs to happen. Anybody interested in pitching in and sharing credit and any money that might come from this? We could congregate on Facebook.

Typical frothing post-Obama conservative. You hate the black guy so much that you're delighted to see the country foundering if it means the president and party you loathe go down with it. Wonderful priorities you people have.

Tell me, do you, Rush and your colleagues actually come in your pants when you think about us getting hit by another terrorist attack or just get one of those 4-hour boners that has you calling the Viagra helpline?

So...by your "logic" that makes Bachmann and Palin future murderous dictators, right?

Yes, progressives adore monsters who slaughter millions of their own people. We sob at night that Idi Amin is too dead to become our next black president.

Crawl back under your rock until you have something more intelligent than the usual "you lefties want to elect a [insert Communist name here]" jibe.

I wonder if it's realistic to try to set up some sort of National Progressive Summit. Get all the major and minor stakeholders to send representatives and spend 4-5 days hashing out what the national progressive platform/values are. Maybe that's wishful thinking, but in the end the idea of being "progressive" has to stand for something.

It's great to finally, finally see more and more media figures calling out this insane, anti-Obama, anti-America crap for what it is.

Maybe the tide is turning. Keep putting wackos like Jeffrey on TV, please.

I read Krauthammer's editorial: a piece of garbage, as usual. His presumption that Obama "falling off his pedestal" is somehow a bad thing is hysterical and pathetic at the same time. It makes the same nonsense assumption that so many of the rabid anti-Obamaites (read: any Republican member of Congress) make—that anyone who supports Obama must be a blind acolyte who thinks that the man walks on water.

PURE CRAP.

I personally think it's very positive that Obama has been harshly brought back to reality by the circumstances of his first year. First of all, power corrupts in all cases, and no man in such a high office can be allowed to continue with the kind of abject adoration Obama once enjoyed. Reality checks are crucial for installing some humility and an understanding that if you make a campaign promise, you damned well had better try to keep it. Second, the vituperative, insane demonization of the man by the Crazy Right has been a wake-up call for his administration that his brand of let's-all-hold-hands bipartisanship won't hunt right now. He needs to be practicing more of a let's-use-our-majority-to-ram-change-up-your-ass strategy.

Finally, Obama's so-called descent from on high reminds us that it's dangerous to have a presidency built on a cult of personality, like we had with the abject fawning over Bush. The president must always be reminded of who he works for: US.

I was hoping for Glenn Beck. I like a little incoherent foaming at the mouth with my speeches.

I have a novel theory about the president's speech to schoolchildren: it wasn't about schoolchildren. It was a ruse to expose the Not-too-Bright Right.

Think about it. In the midst of the healthcare war, Afghanistan, the economy and all the other issues, why is he speaking to schools NOW? I'll tell you why: because by giving a well-publicized and completely innocuous, positive speech about education, he and his team know they can draw out the Republican crazies (read: all of them) and force them to show their paranoid-schizophrenic cards. It's a perfect ruse to reveal the anti-Obama wacko fringe to folks who haven't been paying attention.

Smart strategic move. Very smart.

Man, you had me going for a second, Andrew. That drives home the point that the Right has gone so far around the bend from Reality Land that this satire could even be considered as true.

Keep it coming. As satirists from Swift to Voltaire to Twain have proved, derision is a powerful weapon.

I take issue with the idea that the Democrats should become as draconian as the GOP were when they controlled Congress and forbid the party from participating. We're supposed to be better than those bastards, not perpetuate their unconstitutional ways. Taking the high road is always going to be harder and require slower, more incremental change. What's wrong with getting a compromise healthcare bill passed this year, then making positive changes next year?

That said, I'm delighted to see someone trying to put the Repugnants in a "put up or shut up" position. It's been clear from day one that all they care about is destroying Obama; they don't give a rat's ass about healthcare for anyone but themselves and their fatcat corporate buddies. But they'll sure as hell care when the Dems pass a bill and can point to them in 2010 and say, "Yep, there's the guy who voted against healthcare legislation that would have covered you and lowered your costs!"

You go, Max.

...of the president, this is the nature of a democracy, which is supposedly what we have. It's about compromise. Nobody gets everything they want, which is why the "trigger" option may be the best we can hope for. I want single payer as much as anyone, but I also have to agree with those who say that as constructed now, the cost would be devastating.

We'll see.

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