Bush hatred part 1,539,419
This afternoon I wrote a very angry post about an amazingly hateful and utterly stupid statement that Rep. Barney Frank said about President Bush. I let my post sit for a while, then added on an afterthought as an explanation, leaving the original post as-is. But now, hours later, I’ve decided to chuck the whole post and start over.
Why? Because the left’s hatred of George W. Bush runs so deep that getting angry about or outraged over the latest example serves no useful purpose. They hate him with a passion that is so ingrained that no fact, no amount of reasoning, and no appeal to decency will change that.
The latest occasion was Barney Frank claiming that Bush and his administration carried out “ethnic cleansing by hurricane” in New Orleans. You see, what ol’ Frank was saying is that Bush and his evil minions wanted all those po’ blackies to get outta NOLA so that it would turn into a honky redneck cracker paradise; that is, a Republican haven.
The utter stupidity of Barney Frank’s blather is of course disgusting and revolting, but he’ll naturally get away with it, because the liberal media doesn’t care; his fellow Democrats either silently agree (recall that new Senator Claire McCaskill claimed Bush left blacks on rooftops to die in NOLA) or have no decency in slapping down such an outrageous lie; and Republicans are such limp-fishes that I’ve long-since given up hope that they’ll make an attempt to defend the president against outrageous smears. And Bush himself … well, we already know the answer.
So what’s the best way to deal with this stupid, brainless, idiotic HATE? Any ideas?
Posted by Big Mo
January 5th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
One should alway hate the sin, but love the sinner.
January 5th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
Murphy - tis very true, what you say. But their hatred of Bush knows no bounds.
January 5th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
I am not as nice as Murphy.
They can all go to hell!!!
January 5th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
If their hatred gets much more intense it will drive them to a place with bounds.
A 10×10 room with padding on all sides.
You, RP, are really just a pussycat.
Spread the news that RP is here, to help the helpless, to befriend the friendless, and to defeat the defeatless.
January 5th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
Great article. I read Chait regularly, subscribe to TNR. There’s a plethora of New Anger there.
But I think the hyperbole of Frank and the whole cast of liars, Rangel, Kerry, etc, is taken seriously anymore.
Ethnic cleansing is code for “republicans are racists” and that mantra is failing.
The democrat governor and the democrat mayor were ethnically cleansing… and in fact, the democrats would ethnically cleanse the USA if only republicanism was an ethnicity.
Hyperbole like Frank’s just make him more of a caricature of himself.
Where I have the most difficulty with BDS is the movie about assassinations, and those who verbalize that particular fantasy.
January 5th, 2007 at 11:53 pm
If Bush really wanted to practice “ethnic cleansing”, he would have started with Massachusetts and the entire northeast.
January 6th, 2007 at 12:01 am
COgirl - don’t you mean ETHIC cleansing?
January 6th, 2007 at 12:03 am
ROTFLMAO
I didn’t know they had any up there!
January 6th, 2007 at 12:06 am
That’s the problem, ethics cleansing was over twenty years ago up there, ethics haven’t been seen in a long long time.
January 6th, 2007 at 12:08 am
Manners are gone as well.
January 6th, 2007 at 12:10 am
Logic has also gone extinct.
Lots of things stinkt up there.
January 6th, 2007 at 12:20 am
Common sense jumped out the window.
January 6th, 2007 at 12:25 am
I think Saddam provided a training video last week on the coming fate of the dhimmi’s. ROFL
January 6th, 2007 at 12:36 am
Isn’t funny how they always lament the imposition of justice?
Odd for a bunch of lawsuit mongers, isn’t it?
I suppose they don’t sue for justice, they sue to get their own way, and recognize that justice and their way are two entirely different things.
January 6th, 2007 at 12:45 am
There should be many judges, for few will always do the will of few.
January 6th, 2007 at 12:50 am
Wrong Niccolo,
Judges will always do the will of judges, and that is perpetually the will of a few.
Democracy is the antidote.
Ancient societies discovered long ago that judges rule poorly.
January 6th, 2007 at 1:36 am
I’m from about as Northeast as one can get in the States. Maine, to be exact. Now that I’ve read all the comments I guess I know what’s wrong with me.
I guess I’ll have to dust off my manners, common sense and ethics and see if I remember how to use them.
January 6th, 2007 at 1:57 am
Kathy - “Wrong Niccolo”.
I was born on 3 May 1469.
Always remember young one, age before beauty.
Jeanette, if you get far enough to the North East, it is like you “wrap around” and it becomes like you are really from the South West.
January 6th, 2007 at 4:58 am
We’re too nice to them when they say these things
A prominent Republican needs to get up and say something like this:
“Yesterday Mr Barney Frank accused our President of murdering Black people in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Mr Frank’s comments are despicable, disgraceful and the epitome of why the Democratic Party is a party of lunatic extremists. Mr Frank should apologize for these comments at once or resign from the House of Representatives. This country does not need delusional lunatics in public office.”
Say this, then DON’T BACK DOWN.
January 6th, 2007 at 9:29 am
I thought MFG’s comment was the most productive because it suggested a course of action. We have a lot of elected members of Congress who have not raised their voices in unity. These statements should be brought to the public’s attention and hammered on incessently. For example, every speech by an elected member of Congress should begin with: “While waiting for Mr. Frank’s apology, I will address the proposed minimum wage increase…” Besides here, where’s the outrage from our elected officials?
On another vein, the President seems particularly adrift/ rudderless/isolated these days. He’s sending signals of great weakness since the holidays. He was in a better space immed’ly after the elections. He’s taken too long to formulate a new Iraqi policy since the Baker Report was realized. He’s firing/losing too many people. He should quit going to Crawford for a while and spend his weekends at Camp David. Where’s the executive branch these days? Harriet Miers quits; Tony Snow’s reaction? “Well, she’s been here 5 years.”
Come on, Mr. President, you have a veto pen; you have all the power of the executive branch; get those cajones back. Quit with the signing statements and use the veto pen. Show some action!
January 6th, 2007 at 9:54 am
MFG, davidm - that’s part of my point: is there a Democrat with the shame/honor to do it, and is there a Republican with the spine to do it?
I’ve been waiting for YEARS for it to show up.
There have been plenty of opportunities for a Democrat to seize the high ground and claim a “Sistah Soljah moment” over this BDS — but it hasn’t happened.
Likewise, there have been opportunities a-plenty for a Republican to claim real leadership by slapping down BDS — but it’s never happened.
I don’t expect Bush to do it. (Heck, I don’t even expect much from his speech next week because he’s lowered the bar so much.)
January 6th, 2007 at 10:26 am
Well the ones who spoke out like ex-Senator Santorum incur the wrath of the media if they are covered at all.
The penalty for calling out a democrat on his lies is political suicide in our media. They get the last word and their editorials are presented as hard news.
Niccolo, the rule of the Judges was BC - you were not born then, grasshopper.
And Jeanette, no one was taking a shot at you.
There is a difference between the NE and the S. If you want evidence on the differences take driving for example,try pulling out in traffic on South Tryon St. in Charlotte and then take your car to Park Avenue in Manhattan - as ‘Elf’ says “the yellow ones don’t stop”.
Then take a long look at who gets sent to the Senate and Congress from the NE. It’s like their prisons are full and they had to send Kerry, Biden, Kennedy, Clinton, Schumer, Dodd, etc some place so why not Washington…
Barney Frank - the topic - is from MA. At least sending him to Washington gets him out of MA some of the time.
That’s discourtesy in anyone’s book.
January 6th, 2007 at 10:30 am
Davidm - I nominate you as the president’s counsel.
Put that in a letter and send it to GWB. It’s good advice.
January 6th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
First Barney Frank is a nitwit with a gnats brain to match.
But if you follow their logic, as convoluted as it is. When Katrina first they were claiming Bush ‘Steered’ mind you, the hurricane into New Orleans, how does one do that ? As if the Hurricane Hunters took Bush up to the Hurricane and put in into the pilots seat of the Hurricane to turn it into NO. If that isn’t bad enough, Farakahn(SP) swore he knew people who saw Bush, Cheney and probably Rumsfeld mining the levees to blow them up and with such accuracy as to flood out the 9th ward, where the population is/was predominately black.
When you look at it, Bush is responsible for: Global Warming, all the Devestation in New Orleans, the Oil Crisis, et al. (did I forget any catastrophe) and the Tsunami in South East Asia.
If Bush can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands, and who disguised as a mild mannered President… How did the democrats win the election ?…And why would anyone want to trifle with such power.
January 6th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
Jeanette, you had the good sense to leave the northeast.
All the jabs were intended to be an ironic comment about the lunacy of the Frank comment. My point was that if there was any “ethnic cleansing” to be done by Bush, I seriously doubt he would have selected NOLA to begin. There is nothing wrong w/ you. You didn’t choose to be born in Maine. It just happened.
January 6th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
There’s nothing wrong with being born in Maine either as long as you don’t accept the political landscape there.
I’m sorry if you all thought I was offended. That’s the reason I put a smiley in there. I took it the way it was meant and was going along with you by laughing at myself.
January 6th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
He (she) who laughs last, no first ,no last, aw heck I don’t remember!
January 7th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
Perhaps someone can explain why politicians of either party, or even regular citizens should expend the psychic energy to constantly defend someone who steadfastly refuses to defend him/herself. If Bush doesn’t care or get upset about the slurs from the opponents, why should I. If Bush hasn’t the cajones to defend himself and fight back, why should I worry about my cajones. Bush set the rules on Jan 20th 2000 when he ordered that the Clinton staffers not suffer any grief for trashing the White House on their way out, and he has continued the go along to get along ever since. The only opponents that he fights back against are his conservative supporters that put him in office and now dare to suggest that he is wrong about anything. The Minutemen are vigilantes. The anti-Harriet Meyers people are bigots. Senator Jon Kyl excluded from a White House meeting to solve the border/illegal aliens problems. On and on.
Yet I read the fanatic ramblings of the members of the Bush cultists club members that consistently tell us all that George Bush walks on water without getting his ankles wet. In the meantime more than necessary of our warriors are sacrificed in Iraq because it is demanded that they wage war in a politically correct way so as not to upset of anger our enemies, and the door to out country is thrown wide open on our southwestern border for the illegal entry of literally millions of people every year without an inkling of who they are or why they are here. Oh, and let’s give them all amnesty and make them citizens.
When Bush starts standing up for himself to the media and the Dems, then and only then will I worry about sticking up for him.
January 7th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
Caleb, you need to tell us how you really feel, mustn’t hold it all in like that…
No - I understand your frustrations - many of them I share.
I have never seen one man throw away so much goodwill so fast as GWB.
He is indeed far better to his enemies than his friends.
But he has done a good job on some things and on those things I give him credit.
*We haven’t been attacked since 9/11 and I have first hand knowledge about why this is largely due to his counterterrorism policies.
*Additionally, we will have a better response lined up than we had after 9/11 happened. We are prepared and GWB did that too.
*Our economy is growing and we had tax cuts, and unlike his father, he hasn’t raised them. I hope I don’t have to eat my words on this issue. Our economy is great and everyone is working, and more people than ever own homes.
*The Judiciary! Roberts and Alito - FANTASTIC.
There’s also this from the WaPoo in a hit piece on the Supreme Court:
Less cases reviewed, less judicial interference. More republican appointees mean stricter adherence to laws and less grounds for appeal. - but the Wapoo missed that supposition - wonder why?
Yes, GWB is disappointing on Miers, and immigration, maddening in fact. But he’s a flawed human being - but because he is president and not those idiot democrats, I am safer for it.