The idea of democracy has been stripped of its moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.
- Paul Wellstone
Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings.
- Howard Dean
Today’s coffee-spew moment comes to us courtesy of the Huffington Post. It seems Speaker of the House John Boehner has his panties in a wad because Barack Obama has the temerity to actually try Presidenting again:
John Boehner Sends Obama Letter Demanding Answers On Syria
It was some time before I could suppress the giggles; this feigned outrage from the leader of the same party who gave Captain Codpiece © a blank check for his wars…and painted opposition to those misadventures as somehow unpatriotic and anti-American? The leader of the same party that gave Our Glorious and Benevolent Leader © a free pass on the lies and propaganda he used to purchase those military cluterf—ks? The leader of the same party that’s obstructed the President at every step feels he can now demand answers from that same President? If news came out that President Obama had ordered a ham and Swiss cheese on German Rye bread for lunch, Republicans (along with their propaganda partners at Fox Noise Channel) would be wondering what he has against American cheese and white bread. The GOP is the party of Mitch McConnell, who said that Job One for the GOP was ensuring that Barack Obama was a one-term President. No, not the economy, or health care, or the recession, or education, or infrastructure, or…well, you get the idea. Republicans, under the leadership of McConnell in the Senate and Boehner in the House, made their top priority thwarting The Black Guy in the White House © at every turn. And now they’re demanding answers from him? In a perfect world, the President would drop troy and instruct Republicans to firmly affix their lips to his posterior…but this is hardly a perfect world.
Wow, that’s some principled leadership, eh? And now Boehner’s “demanding answers” on Syria? That Boehner lacks the self-awareness to recognize the hypocrisy conveyed by his letter isn’t particularly surprising, nor is the chutzpah displayed by Boehner’s theory that he actually has some leverage with which to assume the moral high ground.
If I was President, I’d tell Boehner where he could stick his letter, but I suppose Barack Obama is a better person than I am. He’ll be diplomatic and likely respond like a statesman…which is more than John Boehner deserves. The Speaker has led the effort to stymie the President at every opportunity; I’d give almost anything to hear the President tell Boehner to kiss his @$$. This is why he’s President and I’m not, right?
Hey, a boy can dream….
