Posted on November 4th, 2010 by D. Aristophanes
One might think that after the Great Victory To Take My Country Back most Tea Party folks would want to roll up their sleeves and get to work ensuring that their newly elected bagislators actually live up to their promises.
Some Tea Partiers did in fact make such an effort, if somewhat cryptically and with a lack of specifics — such as RedState’s hogan, who advised the new D.C. in-crowd to ‘double down on freedom’ (we suggest they also buy insurance if the dealer’s upcard is liberty). Others, like Pam Geller, were a bit too specific — demanding the fulfillment of actual Tea Party campaign trail pledges plus several more that one was hard-pressed to find in the literature of even the most rabid candidates. To wit:
– We will raise the voting age to 21. Military excluded. If “children” are still on their parents health-care at 26, maybe 21 is too low.
– We will mandate trips for key liberals in leadership to Iran, Somalia, Darfur, et al, to watch clitorectomies, stonings, and gender apartheid.
– We will arrange for youth summer camps in Somalia and Darfur for Obama’s youth corps, and tell them it’s the peace corps for the lefties.
All positive, forward-looking stuff, to be sure. But for some on the Right, it was more difficult to let go of the anger that led them to the mountaintop. Before marching towards a better tomorrow, it seems it was necessary for some to pause for a quick skull-fucking of the leftist enemies they had so soundly defeated on Nov. 2.
And few were as furious in victory as professional angerist Michelle Malkin. (‘You won’t like Michelle Malkin when she’s angry’, as they say. Or to excise the redundancy and for brevity’s sake, ‘you won’t like Michelle Malkin’.)
Malkin launched her first post-election broadside at California gubernatorial winner Jerry Brown.
‘California, you are about to get even more screwed up than you already are,’ she sneered, declaring the erstwhile Governor Moonbeam’s victory address the ‘weirdest’ of election night. No word on whether Carl Paladino’s channeling of Dick Nixon doing an Al Capone impression is to be named the sanest concession speech of the evening.
But that was just a warm-up act for the real target of Malkin’s rage — Barack Obama.
Take Your Olive Branch and Shove It, Democrats
… Here is an ironclad certainty: It’s too little too late for the antagonist-in-chief to paper over two years of relentless Democratic incivility and hate toward his domestic ‘enemies’. Voters have spoken: They’ve had enough. Enough of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner’s rhetorical abuse. Enough of his feints at bipartisanship. Whatever the final tally, this week’s turnover in Congress is a GOP mandate for legislative pugilism, not peace. Voters have had enough of big government meddlers ‘getting things done.’ They are sending fresh blood to the nation’s Capitol to get things undone.
One gets the sense that this particular column has been sitting on Malkin’s hard drive since around midnight on Nov. 4, 2008. Still, to her credit, she seems to have removed any references to the Philadelphia Phillies winning the World Series.
Just two short years ago, Obama campaigned as the transcendent unifier. ‘Young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled, Americans have sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of red states and blue states,’ he proclaimed. ‘We have been and always will be the United States of America.’
It’s been an Us vs. Them freefall ever since.
We’re with her on the concluding criticism of the Tea Party’s track record but we wonder, when will she get to the part that bashes Obama and the Democrats? Never fear:
Democratic leaders have taken their cue from Team Obama’s persistent politics of polarization.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer called vocal citizens who protested the federal health care takeover bill during the town hall revolts of 2009 ‘un-American‘, too. …
Obama’s pal Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida, whom the president hailed as an ‘outstanding‘ member of Congress, accused Republicans of wanting elderly people to ‘die quickly‘ and of presiding over a ‘holocaust in America‘. …
In California, entrenched incumbent jerk Pete Stark derided immigration enforcement activists at a town hall by asking: ‘Who are you going to kill today?‘
Accusations of un-Americanism? Inappropriate Holocaust comparisons? Labeling political opponents murderers? Strictly the province of the Left!
Let us be clear, in case it hasn’t fully sunk into the minds of Obama and the trash-talking Democrats yet: You can take your faux olive branch and shove it.
Thank you.
No, thank you, Michelle! We Lefties are chastened by your spot-on denunciation of our boorish discourse and bellicose policy agenda of the past few years and we eagerly await your recommended 180-degree turn towards the friendly tickling of the body politic with ‘legislative pugilism, not peace’.