The whining leftists: it's perfectly OK for them to trash Bush... but THEIR guy? Not so much.

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No one can snivel like a leftist.

Today's particular example if Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoonist David Horsey of Seattle PI fame.

Horsey spent eight of the last eight years beating George Bush like a rented mule. He drew cartoons so dispicable, so hypocritical and so completely false as to be absurd. His columns typically stopped just short of calling for Bush or Cheney's assassination, but he typically strained at the bit.

Now, like the rest of the leftist media, he has a vested interest in his socialist choice for president, and will do everything he can to help him achieve the patena of success.

And by "everything," I mean lie (if not actively, then by ommission) mislead and engage in efforts like his column, below, written as if he had been hired by the White Houe already.

Addressing some excerpts:

"When I see people at anti-tax rallies carrying signs equating the duly-elected president of the United States with Adoph[sic] Hitler or calling him a "Kenyan" who stole the government from real Americans, it makes me suspect the protests spring, not from reasoned analysis, but from blind paranoid anger."

Yet, his cartoons and columns during the Bush Administration fostered this very attitude, an attitude leftists expressed repeatedly... without similar concern from him.

Run a Google search that simply says "Hitler Bush" and 1,280,000 hits come up.

You see, the problem here is that his fake concerns, expressed here when the messiah is in office... compared to his silence on that very subject to the point of crickets chirping during the last Administration, is the basis for what appears to me to be the left's rank hypocrisy.

The rhetoric on the right may all be for show or to "energize the base" or vent feelings of frustration in the wake of a bad election loss. But how long can we sustain this level of vitriol in our civic discourse before someone with a deep grudge and a loose purchase on reality feels justified in picking up a gun to save America from some imagined, high level treachery? Is that too paranoid on my part? Do the Oklahoma City bombers have no kindred spirits? Were the knuckleheaded neo-Nazi kids who got caught before they attacked an Obama campaign event utterly unique? I doubt it

Again, his deep-felt concern for these issues was totally absent during the last Administration in any written or drawn word I could find. His OWN PERSONAL LEFTIST rhetoric was clearly designed to do that which he seems to be complaining about now.

How come it was perfectly OK for him and his ilk to engage in this nonsense over most of the last decade when the president was his opponent and he strived so hard to support our enemies... but now that the shoe's on the other foot, it's so problematic for him now?

"The one indisputable fact is that Barack Obama was freely elected by a majority of the people. He and his advisors[sic] are making a sincere attempt to save our capitalist system using methods that make sense to a lot of mainstream economists. Obama and company could be wrong, but they are not evil."

Besides his obvious, factual inaccuracy (Obama was, in fact, elected by a majority of the VOTERS, not "the people," meaning he actually received the vote of about 1/5th of "the people") I really can't seem to recall him expressing similar concerns for Bush.

I know... I know... it's DIFFERENT when it's your guy. He's going to be a total hypocrite with a stake in having his guy achieve success, even if he has to lie, or confuse, or treat him differently in any way to get it. I'm sure HIS leg was "tingling" the entire time he wrote this tripe. After all, why be fair when you can be biased?

So, replace "Obama," with "Bush," and what have you got?

The one indisputable fact is that George Bush was freely elected by a majority of the people. He and his advisors[sic] are making a sincere attempt to save our country using methods that make sense to a lot of military experts. Bush and company could be wrong, but they are not evil.

And see, this is the crux of the matter.

Besides the fact that a lot of mainstream economists also OPPPOSE this clown's destruction of our future with the multi-trillion dollar debt he's run up at light speed since he took office, (A debt that the CBO has told us was not necessary) a debt that threatens the existence of the capitalist system he's extolling here; he's screwed up our foreign policy (Man, the Russians, Iranians and the NorKs are falling all over themselves to do his bidding.) He's helped reduce the number of inmates in our jails by hiring them for his Cabinet; he's tried to get veterans to pay for our OWN healthcare, even when the basis for that care is sustaining wounds in battle; he's hired a clueless moron as HSC Secretary; he's lied about hiring lobbyists for HIS Administration... WE are suffering in the midst of a terrible recession, but that doesn't seem to interfere with the weekly White House parties.

He moronically requires a Catholic school to cover up their religious symbols during his speech; his lackeys claimed he wasn't even aware of the tea parties (you know, people exercising THEIR right to protest? People that leftist scum repeatedly and despicably refer to as "teabaggers" (I'm sorry, did I miss your column decrying THAT sort of abuse? Didn't think so.)) He's illegally used soldiers in uniform as campaign props; he got, essentially, NOTHING from Europe in the G20 to help us out in Afghanistan; he's lied about cap and trade; lied about how much he's going to cut the deficit; lied about ear marks; lied about bankruptcy resulting from health care costs; lied about our oil imports; lied about the AIG bonuses, all the while expressing your fake outrage that such a thing could happen; he's wasted billions for failed car manufacturers to keep his union buddies happy; he forced a vote on a the stimulus, all in the name of transparency, you understand, WITHOUT EVEN ALLOWING ANYONE TO READ THE WHOLE BILL, while HE had worked overtime to talk down the economy.

He's burying us in debt... a debt that will not be paid for generations, if at all; and he's setting us up for hyperinflation by printing enough money to paper the moon.

His first 100 days has been a nightmare.

But I've missed his columns and drawings treating Obama the same way he treated Bush. And not one drawing from him taking him to task for any of this?

Now, if you'll just point me in the right direction so I can look them over?

Meanwhile, he should spare us his "I'm trying to get the White House Communications Director" job type columns, written in support of this idiot, since even SHE has been smart enough to dump this clown.

He has not displayed even a pretense of fairness over the last Administration, so being a leg-humper for this one avails him nothing.

At the end of the day, Horsey and his ilk achieved success by the very tactics he's now complaining about when they're aimed at his guy. And that's just additional rank hypocrisy on his part... that mutes his impact in this time of leftist hyper-partisanship.

Fellow Americans are not the enemy

As Rodney King so famously asked, "Can't we all just get along?"

Last week, I wrote a column and drew a cartoon commenting on the anti-tax tea party protests that were whipped up all over the country. I took a bit of a jaundiced view, questioning the logic of the protesters and the credibility of some of the commentators like Sean Hannity who become cheerleaders for the event. Among the many people who responded to my comments was John Carlson, the well-known conservative talk radio host and one-time Republican nominee for governor of Washington. Carlson wrote:

Here is what I think your blog and cartoon missed about the Tea Parties. I went to the one in Redmond to talk to the demonstrators. I saw hundreds of people waving signs and American flags, who work hard, who play by the rules, and who are saying, "ENOUGH". The spending, the deficits, the debt that were already bad under George Bush are all getting worse today. Why are they getting worse? Because of pork barrel spending and bailouts of people and politically connected companies that made bad choices. The people at the Tea Parties don't want a bailout, and they don't want their taxes going up to bail out other people's bad behavior, either. Half the people I talked to had never been to a protest before. That's important. These tea parties might be the beginning of something that changes American politics like the tax revolts of the late 70's. You made fun of them too, at the time. Remember?

John Carslon and I have been acquainted for a long time. We like each other and respect each other, even though we are often on different sides of the issues. I appreciated hearing from him and getting his critique. It was a little different from the message sent by some other folks. A reader who saw the same commentary on the San Francisco Chronicle's web site, SFGate, proposed organizing an advertising boycott of the Chronicle...

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