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The Virtue of the Vicious

As if it weren’t bad enough that Obama has asked Americans to begin reporting disagreements with his health care agenda to flag@whitehouse.gov (can you imagine the outcry on the left if Bush had done this with respect to the Iraq War), now Nancy Pelosi thinks if you show up to a meeting to express your outrage and frustration that you are un-American. If the right went too far with tacit attacks on the patriotism of war dissenters, the left has now made itself no better with respect to the health care debate. It is now clear that the Democrats in Washington are intent on using patriotic rhetoric and Orwellian tactics to puch Amsoc down our throats whether we would have it or not, and woe unto he who would dare stand against it. Oscar Wilde made the eponymous assesment of patriotism, it merely took America 8 years to see that both sides could be equal opportunity offenders of this ugliness.

The Gotcha That Wasn’t

Sometime last week everyone in America heard a loud splatting sound. The sound, of course, was a certain joy that was produced (use your shameful imagination) by Democrats upon Leon Panetta’s admission that the previous administration had considered a secret on again off again program of some sort. Dems couldn’t contain themselves because it seemed to confirm that embattled Speaker Nancy Pelosi wasn’t a total lying shrew when she claimed that the CIA kept her in the dark on water boarding. Everyone carped all week long about this secret CIA program, which was reported to have limited success and which we were totally in the dark on. Indeed, we were kept in the dark on it for a whole week. What could it be? Were we being spied on? Was Dick Cheney rounding up newborns and draining them of blood in a failed attempt to transition from Dracula to human? Nope, turns out they were just trying to find a way to kill Bin Laden. The program centered around training paramilitary groups to infiltrate enemy territories undetected for targeted assassinations against high value targets. The “limited successes” were due to insurmountable logistical difficulties in the prgram. The program was ultimately rendered obsolete by the widespread use of predator drones in that role.

So thank you Nancy & Co. You’ve distracted us for a week from your bald-faced CYA lie with the shocking revelation that the CIA was trying to kill Osama bin Laden. What a pathetic crop of putzes that now occupy the majority in Congress.

Join the #dontgo movement

This started when Nancy Pelosi decided her vacation was more important than voting on energy policy last week, and it’s exploded since then. Get all the details at the #dontgo movement website.