Some day they'll analyze Bush's brain and discover some bizarre defect that only occurs when a man snorts his body weight in cocaine, then pretends to find Jesus, after which he works so hard to cover evidence of his draft-dodging that it breaks the artery that feeds his primary moral center, allowing him to kill women and babies while helping the rich steal from the poor. Of course they'll call it Bush Derangement Syndrome, and for all time the world will know how to avoid ever letting another weasel like GW slither into power.

http://democrats.senate.gov/journal/entry.cfm?id=273216&

http://democrats.senate.gov/members

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/lv-other/2007/apr/27/566616174.html

First, shooter:

Hey Rosenberg....

Maybe we can't get Rush booted just now. But what exactly is the downside in putting him and his GOP enablers on the defensive for his racism???

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Your desire to deprive people of their first amendment rights is noted.

Good old Shooter, doing the O'Reilly thing to make it seem like I'm calling for censorship.

Reality [emphasis added]:

[Digby]:

I don't think Rush should be censored by the government and there is no movement to do such a thing. But if corporate radio can destroy the careers of the Dixie Chicks because one of them once said onstage that she was ashamed that Bush was from Texas, they can fire this noxious SOB for being a stone cold racist, misogynist ass on their airwaves for the past 20 years. That seems more than fair to me.

Maybe we can't get Rush booted just now. But what exactly is the downside in putting him and his GOP enablers on the defensive for his racism???

Then nabalzbbfr:

Bush Derangement Syndrome

This is all Bush derangement syndrome. Like Abraham Lincoln and Harry Truman, George W. Bush is mocked and reviled by the mobs and the demagogues during the latter part of his term in office.

But, of course, "Bush Derangement Syndrome" is 200 Proof projection from the folks who brought us Clinton Derangement Syndrome. And since I've just mentioned "Rush, Newspeak and Facism," why not give you a taste:

"Hitler was more moral than Clinton," intoned the nice-looking, dark-haired man in the three-piece suit. "He had fewer girlfriends."

The audience laughed and applauded, loudly.

A remark like that might hardly have raised an eyebrow in post-Monica America, particularly in the meeting-halls of mainstream conservatism, where it often seemed, by the end of Bill Clinton's tenure in the White House, that no hyperbole is too overblown in the campaign to depose him -- mostly, it seems, by convincing the rest of us that he was too grossly immoral to continue to hold the presidency.

As the scandal wore on, the volume, intensity and downright nastiness of his critics reached impressive levels. It wasn't unusual to hear of congressmen calling him a "scumbag" and a "cancer on the presidency," or for mainstream conservative commentary to refer to him, as Orlando Sentinel columnist Charley Reese did at one point, as "a sociopath, a liar, a sexual predator, a man with recklessly bad judgment and a scofflaw." Even right-wing scribe Andrew Sullivan played the armchair psychologist on national television, describing Clinton as "sociopathic."

But the scene above took place four years before Monica, in 1994, long before Clinton handed his enemies a scandal on a platter that seemingly made such references acceptable. It was not at a Republican caucus or Christian Coalition meeting, but at a gathering of right-wing "Patriots" who had come to hear about forming militias and common-law courts and defending their gun rights -- indeed, their families -- from the New World Order. They numbered only a hundred or so and only half-filled the little convention hall in Bellevue, Washington, but their fervor saturated the room with its own paranoid energy.

And the speaker, who could have passed even then for a local Republican public official -- actually, he was nominally a Democrat -- in fact was one of the nation's leading Patriot figures: Richard Mack, then sheriff of Arizona's mostly rural Graham County. As a leader in the fight against gun control (his lawsuit eventually led to the Supreme Court overturning a section of the so-called Brady Law), Mack was in high demand on the right-wing lecture circuit as he promoted the militia concept to his eager acolytes. He usually sprinkles his "constitutional" gun-rights thesis with his theories on church-state separation -- it's a "myth," he claims -- and "the New World Order conspiracy."

The similarities between Mack's 1994 sentiments and the hyperbole directed at Clinton in 1998 are not accidental. Rather, they offer a stark example of the way the far right's ideas, rhetoric and issues feed into the mainstream -- and in the process, exert a gravitational pull that draws the nation's agenda increasingly rightward. For that matter, much of the conservative anti-Clinton paroxysm could be traced directly to some of the smears that circulated first in militia and white-supremacist circles.

There is a grain of truth in comparing the two sides, however: Just as the lies and slanders of the extreme right slowly percolated into the mainstream during the Clinton era, so, too, the truths of the "extreme left" have slowly percolated into the mainstream today.

"Extreme left" meaning too extreme for Versailles, and so left out of the political dialogue. Except, of course, for the Bush Deranged blogs!

The BDS sufferer is unable to process information that leads to comprehending how bad things have gotten under Bush. As a classic BDS patient, nazalfiber can't allow himself to see what the rest of thw world sees. Further, nozzlbuffer shows signs of a human being with no ability to process information whatsoever. This is a sign that Bush Derangement Syndrome has metastasized into full-blown Right Wing Authoritariania--much worse and almost always fatal. The sufferer is likely to attempt to do as much harm to as many people as possible before complete breakdown. Quarantine and brain rewiring is the only hope.

The yellow bull-doze cats knock down trees. They kill myriads of life forms. It sounds like fibula's' and femur, skull and white collar, elbow or chin, humor bones too, getting ground and crunched. The sound is as real as a skull bone cracking wide open from a rifle's gun in a war-zone. This is done for a fraudulent fake and deadly economy. A trap -- A noose. A slave block in each town.

Bebop-o, you've nailed it. It's this "fraudulent fake and deadly economy" that needs to be addressed as well. It's a form of totalitarianism. How chilling is China's Olympic marketing slogan, One World/One Dream? I think of it when I see Walmart(/China) systematically reaching its tentacles every 20 miles in virtually every county across the country

I have a weed like that in my shrub border. I cannot yank it out by hand. It's a systemic weed.

Elected officials here are indeed within walking distance. But this is a crazy town. It has no sidewalks along the busy main road! (Also it has no comprehensive plan or zoning of any kind.) Such is the wisdom of the town elders. There are few pedestrians, only hulking cars. And, of course, the not-so-occasional heartbreaking roadkill. Once the 130 acres is paved over, and nature thoroughly banished here (a “killing field” indeed, bebop-o), I suppose there won’t even be roadkill.