So much for that Dissent is the Highest Form of Patriotism thing, I guess

Dissent is Hate Speech, Part Infinity-minus-one.

Robert Stacy McCain has the run down on the apoplectic reaction of liberals to the "tea parties" sweeping the country. His post appropriately is titled "WTF" based on this hyperventilation (via Instapundit) by someone who apparently only watches MSNBC:

President Obama was elected democratically, according to the doctrines set forth by the Founding Fathers. The Tea Party movement represents a real danger to the tenets of democracy Americans have embraced for centuries.

The editors of the San Francisco Examiner (I thought it was out of business, no?) put this fearful title on an otherwise reasonable article explaining how the liberal bias of the mainstream media has blinded them to the tea party phenomenon: Tea parties are flash crowds Obama should fear. One commenter, who apparently read the headline but not the article, commented: "Many of those signing on to these tea parties are from the militia movement groups. They are scary and potentially violent."

Got that?  Dissent is now "scary and potentially violent."  When not practiced by people like Code Pinko and International ANSWER, that is.

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Well, we now understand why Obama kept-on SecDef Gates.

So that when the Ayers-worshiper went about dismantling the US Armed Forces he could put a nominally Republican Face^TM on the process.

Gates announced a broad range of cuts Monday to weapons spending, saying he plans to cut programs ranging from a new helicopter for the president to ending production of the $140 billion F-22 fighter jet. The Army's modernization program would be scaled back, while a new satellite system and a search-and-rescue helicopter would be cut.

Sure, because Heaven Forbid we modernize the Army in a time of asymmetrical warfare.

What could possibly go wrong?

The good news?  These cuts will all bring howls of protest from Congress and are not likely to see the light of day.

The bad news?  That they would be proposed in the first place, of course.

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Yeah, it's great to have "the adults" back in charge.

Selective Outrage^TM strikes again.

The Obama administration is engineering its new bailout initiatives in a way that it believes will allow firms benefiting from the programs to avoid restrictions imposed by Congress, including limits on lavish executive pay, according to government officials.

Administration officials have concluded that this approach is vital for persuading firms to participate in programs funded by the $700 billion financial rescue package.

In other words, now that Zero needs the Fat Cats' money to make the "toxic asset bailout" plan work, he's going to try to punch holes in the very laws he demanded in the first place when he was "shaking with outrage" once the "outrageous" bonuses at AIG were "disclosed".

Awesome.

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The Chicago Way

The President of the United States as Don Corleone...

“My administration,” the president added, “is the only thing between you (the CEO's of big banking companies) and the pitchforks.”

Yep, the pitchfork wielding mob that you, Community Organizer in Chief, set-up, nursed, have now fed billions of our tax dollars of our money, and who's Perpetual Outrage^TM you go out of your way to stoke daily.

It's the Chicago Way, of course.

Fuck you, Mr. President.  The only thing standing between you and the pitchforks is apathy among the electorate - and that can change on a dime, bucko.

I ask again, is there anyone - anyone - still alive and breathing at RNC headquarters these days?

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Just don't you dare question their patriotism.

Democrats - supporting the troops, in their usual way... by screwing them out of their ability to exercise their voting franchise.

The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, which is responsible for enforcing the federal statute that guarantees the right of overseas citizens and military personnel to vote by absentee ballot, contacted the New York State Board of Elections and requested that they issue their ballots sooner for this race. The two Republican members of the board voted to support this request. Yet the two Democratic members of the board, shamefully enough, voted against doing so.

It's abso-fucking-lutely maddening.

Hello?  Is there anyone breathing at RNC headquarters these days?

H/T: Uncle Jimbo @ AoSHQ.

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A message for the Society of the Perpetually Outraged...

Hey leftards!  Any time y'all who got your frilly pink panties into such a wad over Dubya's perceived shredding of the Constitution want to, you know, show some outrage over President Zero's actual shredding of self-same Constitution would be fine with me.

Any time...

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