ratbastid

You know, I'm not all that interested in consistency at this point.

The following is my view. I'm clear it's an opinion, and I'm clear there are other opinions out there.

In my opinion, the last administration was eight years of the worst thing that could possibly happen to America. Our last president so profoundly fucked shit up, it's hard for those of us at street level to even really get our heads around it. To whatever small degree we DID get our heads around it, some were outraged, and spoke.

Now we have someone in office who's actually trying to mend that damage, and put through an agenda that takes care of average Americans. And he's facing a pissed off right wing that feels like their guy was called out for the last eight years (although he was actually pretty untouchable for the first several of those, and those speaking out were consistently marginalized and ignored by the "liberal media"), and now want to hit back in kind or worse. So you get tea party protesters who are protesting to protest, who don't know anything about the thing they're protesting except that a talking head on their favorite "news" channel told them it's bad. And it's justified because it's no worse than what "they" did to "our guy".

For it to be consistent, people would have had to be as outraged about the supreme court appointing Bush in the first place, the USA Patriot Act, allowing New Orleans to drown, an illegal and immoral war against a country that couldn't hurt us that has cost $600 billion so far, $10 billion in cash vanishing in Iraq, sweetheart deals for Haliburton and energy companies, etc, etc, etc., as they are about a bill that attempts to make sure every American gets to see a doctor.

I mean... Doesn't the outrage from the right seem a LITTLE suspect, given all this stuff that they COULD have been outraged about? Doesn't the timing seem a little bit, well, convenient? It's like, now that our guy is out, we're mad, and it looks best to be mad about everything government does, except that we were quiet little doormice while our guy was doing the worst raping of our precious "god damned piece of paper" that has ever been done by a president in the history of our nation. But no, let's make damn sure Americans keep paying the most and getting the least in terms of health care. That makes really good sense.

EDIT: To be entirely fair, dk, I know you were as outraged about some of Bush's atrocities as anyone. The above isn't specifically addressed at you.