rs\u2014confronted with all of those transgressions, more than four in 10 Americans still approve of the job Obama is doing. And most of them are loyal Democrats. Partisanship and tribalism are overriding the moral compass of too many liberals, who ought to be furious with Obama. \u201c<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nIf Americans are true to form in off year elections, they will hand the GOP a victory today\u00a0to register their well-earned disapproval of Obama. \u00a0Then the Bourbon Republicans will, true to their form, learn all the wrong lessons from that.<\/p>\n
Freidersdorf\u2019s bill of indictment is the real substance of what is wrong with this Administration. \u00a0But the Boy Who Cries Wolf Right Wing Noise Machine has not focused there and and has often deliberately covered much of this up since they *like* many of the crimes Obama has committed. \u00a0Instead, it gins up hysteria and creates panics about junk like Lattegate or You Didn\u2019t Build That or flat out lies that he insulted Stay at Home Moms (He didn\u2019t: he said that women who stay home to raise their kids should not get screwed out of higher earnings over their lifetime as a result). \u00a0A right wing political culture that rules by ginning up panics is not a serious political culture. And we have paid for it twice by nominating insubstantial candidates who could not even defeat *this* guy.<\/p>\n
I suspect we will pay for it again in 2016 since there seems to be little\u00a0perception of right and wrong in critiques of Obama, merely of winning and losing. \u00a0On the other hand, if you dumb political culture down enough on both sides of the aisle, you might wind up electing somebody so unexpectedly awful that people might wind up being forced to contemplate the fact that a democracy generally gets the government it deserves. \u00a0You sort of hate it to come to that though.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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