Hillary competes with Geithner for competence nadir

So undiscerning. Attack, attack, attack. You’re becoming a caricature of yourself when day after day, night after night all you do is find fault with the administration. Why am I to listen to your opinions when what you voice is nothing more than knee-jerk Party response. And surely Hillary’s missteps in the early days of her new job as SoS can be looked upon with a healthy sense of humor. No? Are you sure you’d do a perfect job right out of the hatch? I’m just saying…

The CJ Political Report on March 7, 2009 at 9:28 AM

Indeed. Obsessing over this Administration’s little mistakes – like the destruction of hundreds of billions of dollars of market wealth, elevating a parade of tax cheats to top office after dropping a trillion dollars in new taxes on the next generation, or appointing a top diplomat who can’t go two hours without insulting everyone within earshot – is so inappropriate, when we should be celebrating their triumphs. Oh, wait, those are their triumphs.

I feel a little embarrassed for the Right, now that you’ve called us out on our petty vindictiveness. After all, who can forget the grace and energetic support the Left showed Obama’s Republican predecessor, in the early days of his administration? Those were magical times, in which every liberal politician and commentator rushed to their microphones and word processors to wish the new President the best after a difficult election, and vowed to help him succeed at his agenda now that he was finally in the White House. And here we are, churlishly pointing out Obama seems to have the economic acumen of a third-grader raised by a hippie chick and a union boss, or that his Secretary of State thinks diplomacy is a four-year victory lap around the world to collect laurels and applause!

It’s especially unkind of us to attack Obama this way, since his campaign and presidency were all about honoring his political opponents and respecting their constituencies. The man spent twenty years of his life in church, for heaven’s sake, learning to love his neighbor and look for the best in people! And his campaign was so honest and informative. I loved those town meetings he would do, where he’d engage in spirited debate with his Republican opponent, and produce carefully researched charts showing how much he planned to spend in office, and how much each American would pay in increased taxes to fund his agenda. And I remember how attentive he was to the needs of the elderly, especially his senile old opponent who couldn’t send e-mail, and how he took a little time from his busy schedule to explain the Marxist dialectic to an Ohio plumber. And remember how he bravely risked angering the Left by making it clear he would keep almost all of George Bush’s wartime policies in place once he got into office, because they were common-sense and effective, while the Left’s criticisms of them were childish and insane?

I love how he spends every day singing the praises of the American doctor, businessman, and taxpayer – the people who make this country work. I love how he’s focused like a laser beam on getting the economy moving forward again, and not wasting his time doing ridiculously counterproductive things, like trying to nationalize health care, passing economy-destroying restrictions on energy production to please radical environmentalists, or tossing business-killing sops to his union supporters. The President could have seized this moment of unprecedented political power and tried to ram some lunatic liberal wish-list of pork and statism down the voters’ throats, while they were too panicked and confused to resist. But, instead, he works every day to improve the business environment and address the economy as his top priority: announcing tax reductions for businesses, scaling back government regulations, reducing the deficit, and slashing wasteful government spending to move resources back into the private sector. He’s been tireless in hunting down and prosecuting corrupt government officials like Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, respecting his duty to safeguard the public treasury by making sure the people who caused the Fannie Mae crisis can’t get anywhere near the financial system, ever again. He’s been a tireless champion of free speech, encouraging robust debate and thoughtfully engaging the criticisms of private citizens who have the media platform and speaking skill to voice them. It’s not as if he’s tried to stifle dissent or insinuated that disagreeing with him is seditious, for God’s sake!

And all we do is sit here and attack. You’ve done us a valuable service by pointing out the error of our ways, you sly little genius you. We should spend whatever remaining time this blog is still legal to sing the praises of our Dear Leader. Perhaps Allahpundit could begin posting a Special Fact About Obama every day, and we could use the comments thread to suggest wonderful new things he could use for upcoming posts. One of Obama’s political heroes once remarked that capitalists would sell the rope that would be used to hang them, but we can do better than that. We can be cheerful about it, and tie the nooses ourselves.

Doctor Zero on March 7, 2009 at 9:57 AM

The CJ Political Report on March 7, 2009 at 10:00 AM

No, you were complaining that all we, or more specifically Ed, do is “attack, attack, attack.” You’re allowed to re-read your own posts before you post something else. In fact, I highly recommend it. That’s the great thing about astroturf – it’s evergreen.

Doctor Zero on March 7, 2009 at 10:16 AM