Wednesday, October 1, 2008

The All-Powerful Left

Greenwald cuts down right-wing "thinkers" like National Review's Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh for comments like this:

The liberal uses crises, real or manufactured, to expand the power of government at the expense of the individual and private property. He has spent, in earnest, 70 years evading the Constitution's limits on governmental power. If conservatives don't stand up to this, who will? If they don't offer serious alternatives that address the current circumstances AND defend the founding principles, who will?
And this from Limbaugh:
Let me read to you the preamble of the United States Constitution. . . . Some Hugo Chavez or some Brazilian president attacked the US over the weekend, saying that the US Constitution is out of whack. Somebody needs to tell him the US Constitution is not in play anymore. The US Constitution has been abrogated and is being tossed overboard section by section by the Democrat Party and the American left.

I swear these are serious comments, not Colbert-style satire.

I mean, after being in the White House for the last eight years, having the majority in the House for 12 of the last 14 years, and having control of both houses of Congress for four of those 12 years, you'd think that they'd actually have power, wouldn't you? You'd think that maybe, just maybe, they would have figured out how government works and manage to implement at least one of their famous platform planks, like -- say -- tax cuts? (Cue Belushi) But nooooooooooo! It's all the liberals' doing that our Constitution is in tatters! It's all their fault that we have to torture people, hold them without charge for life, deny them access to lawyers, monitor their phone calls and e-mails without warrants, stop-loss our soldiers because we're fighting an immoral war with no end in sight, and now bail out deregulated investment banks. It that's treacherous Bill Clinton, who was able to create far-reaching, long-term policies that would undermine everything true Americans stood for and held dear, all while he was getting blown in the Oval Office. We are powerless to stop the liberals! They've taken over! Seek shelter underground before they take your children and turn them into human nuclear warheads! Gaaauuuugggghhh!

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