Gee, You Did It To Yourselves? Who'd A-Thunk It? You're Usually So Fucking Smart.

P. J. O'Rourke in the weekly Standard:

None of this is the fault of the left. After the events of the 20th century--national socialism, international socialism, inter-species socialism from Earth First--anyone who is still on the left is obviously insane and not responsible for his or her actions. No, we on the right did it. The financial crisis that is hoisting us on our own petard is only the latest (if the last) of the petard hoistings that have issued from the hindquarters of our movement. We've had nearly three decades to educate the electorate about freedom, responsibility, and the evils of collectivism, and we responded by creating a big-city-public-school-system of a learning environment.

"Anyone still on the left?" The capacity for delusion on the right is truly astounding. A clue for the ninnies: This is not a center-right country, & any time an information source manages to get out from beneath its corporate boss & tell the truth about what the "right" wants for the nation, it goes badly for the rabid weasels. The electorate, being semi-rational, isn't buying your crap any more. Before we vomit, we're gone, but let's just see if we can stand one more of O'Rourke's paragraphs.

The real message of the conservative pro-life position is that we're in favor of living. We consider people--with a few obvious exceptions--to be assets. Liberals consider people to be nuisances. People are always needing more government resources to feed, house, and clothe them and to pick up the trash around their FEMA trailers and to make sure their self-esteem is high enough to join community organizers lobbying for more government resources.

Liberals consider people "nuisances?" Well, that explains minimum wage laws. People need gov't. resources to feed, clothe & house them? Because Wal*Mart doesn't pay a living wage or provide health insurance? By the way, Mr. O'Rourke, your consideration of people as "assets" (i. e., objects to be used up & thrown away) seems a bit odd when most of your references to people are about poor people whose parks smell bad, & so on. (Seriously: "smelly public parks." WTF? It's called nature, P. J. Or do you think that the colored people smell bad in general? Maybe the word "public" frightens him. Why, people who work for a living might be able to enjoy something close to nature, cutting into the privileges of Mr. O'Rourke's class.) The editorial staff here would like to meet Mr. O'Rourke in a dark alley (or an entirely public place) sometime. Pretend you're a man, P. J., & show up w/o your alleged guns (chances are Mrs. O'Rourke won't allow P. J. w/in a mile of a weapon, especially after he's been drinking as he does) but we'll pretend we believe his macho fantasies. Or show up w/ a gun, for all we care. We've used guns to threaten people before, it won't be much of a problem to relieve him of his metal (or composite fiber) Viagra & threaten a poseur such as "P. J." Final note to all "conservative, right-wing," or whatever you call yourselves pontificators: The following cliches & platitudes

Where is this land of freedom and responsibility, knowledge, opportunity, accomplishment, honor, truth, trust, and one boring hour each week spent in itchy clothes at church, synagogue, or mosque?

are now off limits. Your endless bullshit usage of these words has removed what little value or meaning they once had, most of which was convincing people that they should work like dogs for shit wages, or be used as cannon fodder by the fascists that have run this country into the ground for the last 200 + yrs. One boring hr. spent each wk. in itchy clothes at the temple of lies? Just admit it, P. J., you're a piece of self-hating crap, because at some level you do understand how horrid you are, & you want Sarah Palin to punish you. Or do you really believe that wasting an hr.'s sleep every Sunday to see & be seen at Lies Central is vital to subjugating the AmeriKKKan people? Fuckhead. Go die. Now. Before we decide to help you.