Over at No More Mr. Nice Blog, Tom writes:
Patience and Humility are not qualities highly prized in the blogosphere; nor are they in great abundance there. Nevertheless, they are occasionally useful.
Some progressives are preparing to pass judgment on the Obama Administration before it ever takes office, based on the appointments he makes in the interim. Disappointment is the natural state of progressives; happily, they habitually set their standards high enough to ensure they will always reside in their comfort zone. It is our habit as bloggers to respond to things as they happen, which means we overstate the importance of trivial events. Progressive bloggers, then...well, Obama will be lucky to hold onto more than a handful of us past the end of November.
Still, I will counsel patience. This could be a disaster, or a tremendous success, or a disaster for some and a success for others, but we won't know until well into the second year at the earliest. With Bush, it was different: anyone who was paying attention knew exactly what he would do, and how he would do it, and that's what he did. There was no reason to give him any benefit of any doubt. Obama, I think, has earned a fair amount of forbearance--as the first African-American president, as the first victorious Democrat since 1996, as someone who ran a generally honorable and inclusive campaign, as one who ran on an agenda of improving people's lives, as the most skillful politician since Clinton (whom, if things go well, he could well eclipse), as someone in whose success we have a vested interest. In other words, how about we wait and see?
This is of course absurd. How many of the promises Obama made during the campaign about his "transformational presidency" has he as yet actually kept? Honest observers will concede that the answer is none. Sure, there has been a lot of chatter about what he will do about "executive orders" but so far this is all talk.
What Hilton and his ideological fellow Obamandroids forget is 9/11. 9/11 changed everything. Obama won the election about a month ago, and what has he done about 9/11? Not a thing! I just checked, and 9/11 still happened.
I am a Lifelong Democrat, but I cannot abide these betrayals. I did not leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left me and is now I think screening its calls.
For these reasons I have started POLITICAL INTEGRATION SURE SEEMS YUCKY, or "PISSY."
Our first order of business is to have Obama impeached and John McCain installed as President. I am not so "certain" this is possible by Thanksgiving, but realistically I think we can get this done by Christmas. And don't tell me otherwise you "Eeeyores" and "Little Roos" and "Piglets"!
UPDATE: I really am becoming more "conservative." P. J. O'Rourke, the funniest guy on the right except for Dennis Miller, makes a great point here:
it should be especially easy to move voters to the right. Sensible adults are conservative in most aspects of their private lives. If this weren't so, imagine driving on I-95: The majority of drivers are drunk, stoned, making out, or watching TV, while the rest are trying to calculate the size of their carbon footprints on the backs of Whole Foods receipts while negotiating lane changes.
It's true! And I bet drivers on I-95 would be even more responsible if we got rid of all those intrusive nanny-state "traffic regulations" that stifle the innovative, individualistic, "real-American" "can-do" spirit of the Open Road.
Every time I wanna get anywhere, I keep having to stop at all these "stop lights" that Hinder My Progress, just because a bunch of big-government beaureaucratic stooges decided up there in their "ivory towers" that "everyone should have a turn"! I don't know what "socialism" is, but that sure sounds like it to me!
MORE. I have also decided to use the Boldface option more often, as well as "quotation marks." And I think until PISSY gets its way, I will post this free Clip-Art DANCING LEPRECHAUN! This is but the first step, I think, in building a More Mature and Responsible Progressive Blogosphere.
