These wingnuts won't let Obama have a Bin Laden bounce

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Excerpt Charles Blow nytimes.com

And, third, the right and its corporate overlords will work tirelessly and spend endlessly to ensure that Obama’s accomplishment is diminished. They’re already tripping over themselves to credit George W. Bush in Bin Laden’s demise, and Glenn Beck, that paragon of political distortion and delusion, went so far as to call the president’s trip to ground zero “disgusting,” “obscene” and “grotesque.”

Furthermore, the Supreme Court, by turning Lady Justice into a corporate concubine in the Citizens United ruling, has opened the floodgates of corporate spending on elections, and 2012 will be the first presidential test of it.

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