The Exquisite Contrarian

Is there any argument to be made civility really exists in the current American political dialogue?  Dick Cheney says he’s proud of telling off Patrick Leahy to f*** himself.  By our count, there’s really no civility in empty, crass confrontations like these – and please, spare us the self-righteous “mission of truth” stuff.

Until recently, Heritage was quite willing to associate itself with Romneycare, but that appears to have changed. The words Romney and Massachusetts appear nowhere in Moffits op-ed, probably because the Conintern has lately concluded that Obamacare renders Romney damaged goods. See this withering Fox News interview with Chris Wallace, this dismissal from the libertarian Club [...]

Shocker: the rest of the world also knows W isn’t all that bright.  Thought we’d been able to hide that one.

Another ‘birther’ appears, in an interesting place and with impressive decoration.

When patriots are being taught that the president is a religiously suspect traitor ready to hand the country over to some sinister international cabal, its hardly surprising they feel entitled to hurl hateful words at him or his presumed allies. Cose: Hate Is Drowning Our Politics.

The President marked his Census form.

Frank Rich contends the whole health care debate has essentially been subsumed by something far darker than a simple tea partier’s delight, and he’s not afraid to call out the historical ignorance displayed by several within the mob: How curious that a mob fond of likening President Obama to Hitler knows so little about history [...]

…and he thinks the should change their name to ‘Black-SPAN’.  He also conjectures conservatives and Republicans and going to have to figure out ‘where else to go’ if this keeps up. I think the moderates and lefties of the world might have some suggestions for him. You can’t make this level of ignorance up, can [...]

Waaah.  Happens all the time, so naysayers need not pretend Barack Obama was the first to take this approach.  And if you do want to pretend you’re overlooking years of Cold War postering and abrupt walkaways. Perhaps Israel needs to move past the entitlement phase with the United States and start trying to forge deals [...]

Here’s a little writeup we found particularly logical regarding what the GOP can learn from Conservatives in Great Britain.  We’re not entirely convinced the GOP still knows how to do more than call people names, but there’s no reason to lose hope.