For the past few years, I've been explaining to readers how congressional Republicans will move to impeach President Obama…should he win a second term. One doesn't have to be Nostradamus to understand the modern GOP playbook. All one has to do is review the 2nd term of our last Democratic president. Something which Esquire's Charles Pierce does for us.

In the February issue of Esquire, Pierce reports on a recent interview with Bill Clinton……

…Clinton talks about a change of heart experienced by a former GOP congresscritter named Bob Inglis, who lost in a primary in 2010 because he said disrespectful things about Glenn Beck but who, in the giddy years of the late 1990's, wielded his pitchfork most enthusiastically in the cause of impeaching Clinton, an effort for which he recently apologized, according to the former president, who nonetheless told us:

"I had a fascinating meeting with Bob Inglis the other day. Bob Inglis was an extremely conservative Republican congressman from South Carolina. He was a three-term-pledge guy in the nineties…. So he came to me and he said, "I just want you to know, when you got elected, I hated you. And I asked to be on the Judiciary Committee in 1993, because a bunch of us had already made up our minds that no matter what you did or didn't do, we were going to find some way to impeach you. We hated you. You had no right to be president."

If that sounds a little like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's number one priority for Republicans today…..making Barack Obama a one term president…..it is because both are taken from the same chapter of the same GOP playbook. That particular political playbook, incidentally, was partially written and implemented during the 90's by the world renowned moral values champion, Newt Gingrich. Gingrich was the architect of modern conservative wingnuterry….and also the lead morality cop in the GOP's fevered witch hunt ("We hated you.") against President Clinton.

Today, Gingrich (newly reborn moral values champion) is drawing "true conservatives" to his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination…..a nomination he will never win….in the hopes of debating President Obama before a national audience, where Newt, in his troubled mind at least, can really put it to conservatism's latest presidential object of hate, Democratic President Obama. But, sigh….it is not to be, because the Mittster has a train car load of money that the former disgraced Speaker does not….and establishment Republicans don't want to lose the presidential race AND both houses of Congress.

I'm starting to get the feeling that both sides now realize that Obama will win a second term. National polls show Romney trailing Obama by as much as 7 points right now. Sure, the race will tighten and blah, blah…but Romney is no match for Obama and I think both sides know it.

The only question left, then, is Congress. Who will control the houses of Congress after Obama wins a second term? And what is likely to happen if Republicans control Congress?

The person, if in fact he is truly of the human species, whom "three term pledge guy" Bob Inglis made his pledges to…Grover Norquist….let's us in on what the Republican plan will be should a 2nd Obama term become reality.

First…if Republicans should happen to win the presidency and Congress…

If the Republicans have the House, Senate, and the presidency, I’m told that they could do an early budget vote—a reconciliation vote where you extend the Bush tax cuts out for a decade or five years. You take all of those issues off the table, and then say, “What do you want to do for tax reform?”

Then, the question is: “OK, what do we do about repatriation and all of the interesting stuff?” And, if you have a Republican president to go with a Republican House and Senate, then they pass the [Paul] Ryan plan [on Medicare].

Tax Pope Norquist, the divine man whom all but a handful of congressional Republicans have bowed before and saluted as their infallible tax policy commander…reminds us of what Republicans will do if they control the whole shooting match next January. Tax amnesty for untaxed overseas corporate loot re-entering the U.S., (amnesty is fine for tax dodgers, just not Hispanics) making permanent the Bush era tax cuts and gutting privatizing Medicare. All followed by tax "reform" which will lower tax rates even further on America's privileged rich. Oddly…Grover doesn't mention anything about the gargantuan mountain of new debt his popish policies will create.

But what if Democrats still have control come next January…..what then Grover?

Obama can sit there and let all the tax [cuts] lapse, and then the Republicans will have enough votes in the Senate in 2014 to impeach.

Same playbook. Different Democratic president.

To Republicans, impeachment is not a severe tactic reserved for the most egregious presidential behavior. Impeachment is what the GOP playbook states after the question: What to do when there is a Democratic president and a Republican Congress? Answer: Impeach the Democratic president.

On what grounds? On the grounds that Barack Obama is president while being a Democrat.

Often, here at the Blog of Mass Destruction, I have written about the Village. The Village consists of those "experts"…usually from media, but not always, who represent the "inside the D.C. Beltway" club. The Villagers are neither to the left nor the right….they are the Goldilocks, "just right" centrists you often hear chattering about how the nation is center-right, whatever the hell that means…..and how that the extremists on the right and the left simply do not "know" Washington……how it works, and how only ideas and propositions from this elusive center, a center that only they represent, are the only ideas and scenarios that have a chance of working.

Last year, MSNBC's Chris Matthews put on a Village clinic one evening when he had Alan Grayson (D-FLA) on his program. It was before health care reform finally passed Congress and Grayson was saying that it was going to get done, it was going to pass. Matthews, a Village Elder, ridiculed Grayson when Grayson said it would get done through the reconciliation program. Matthews literally mocked Grayson. Laughed at him. Grayson remained calm and explained to the mocker that, indeed, that's how health care would finally pass.

Grayson was correct. Health care reform passed in Congress using the reconciliation process which requires only 51 votes. Matthews, proud-to-be-a-Village insider who simply "knows" stuff others don't about how Washington works, was wildly off the mark.

In the last week or so, Villagers have been spinning some freshly wrapped, brand-spanking new bullsh*t about what will happen in January after the Tea Party-fueled Republican extremist party takes back the House.

Watch the first minute of the following video from last night's Hardball program and then pick up again at the 5 minute mark…..

Howard Fineman, now of Huffington Post, and Matthews, say that if Democrats hold on to the House and Senate….it would be the worst case scenario for President Obama and the Democrats. They actually say that. Because that's how "in-the-know" Villagers talk.

In Fineman's wisdom, if Democrats held both Chambers, "Obama would still be held responsible for everything."

As if Barack Obama will not be held responsible for everything that happens, or doesn't, NO MATTER who holds Congress. Obama is being held responsible, RIGHT NOW, for stuff he had nothing to do with. But Village wisdom says that if Democrats luck out and hold onto Congress, it will be bad for Obama because he will be held responsible for everything.

Such is Village wisdom. Democrats don't want to hold Congress because then Obama will be held responsible for everything. It will be much better for Obama if Democrats lose at least one Chamber.

But at the 5 minute mark in the video, the Village stupid really starts to burn. Fineman, asked about the most likely outcome….House goes GOP, Senate remains Democratic…..responds that "this is the scenario where deals are most likely."

Yep, that's what he said.

Howard Fineman and Chris Matthews can't be entirely unaware of what has gone on for the last 22 months….even though they act like it. Minority Republicans, for 22 straight months, have blocked everything Democrats have brought up, setting new filibuster records in the Senate.

Add to that indisputable history the fact that this year's extreme Republican candidates are running on a "no compromise" with Democrats platform….promising voters they will never compromise over ANYTHING.

Mix in the, also, indisputable fact that newly elected Republicans will be scared to death of being primaried out next time by Tea Party whackos if they even think about compromising with Democrats, and you come up with a much more realistic outcome for the next two years. An outcome pooh-poohed by the Villagers, but nevertheless, an outcome which, I think, is inevitable.

Not just gridlock…but gridlock with an attitude. Investigations of the President will begin immediately next year. The same Villagers who say Democrats losing the House is the best thing for Obama will cover every nuance, every accusation against Obama with glee and excitement.

Most likely, these new majority Republicans will shut down the federal government because Tea Party extremists refuse to compromise on spending. The same Villagers will bark and howl nightly about Obama's unwillingness to give Republicans what they want. They'll recycle the "why isn't Obama bipartisan enough" horsepucky and all heads will nod in agreement.

While all of this chaos is ensuing……just review the Clinton presidency if you have doubts……the Village theme for the next two years will be singular in purpose.

Sarah Palin as President.

Don't laugh too quickly.

For almost two years, Chris Matthews, who says he votes Democratic, has run a segment EVERY NIGHT on Sarah Palin. Every-freaking-night. Nothing whatsoever has ever come from the ex-1/2-term Alaskan governor which is news worthy. Nothing. Yet, Matthews reserves a segment EVERY NIGHT to talk about her. Chrissy gets twitterpated everytime he talks about Sister Sarah.

The Reverend is not a Villager…..not a Professional and Serious Expert like Matthews or Fineman. They are in the know, and me?…….well, all I do is pay attention to what's going on.

And what I see coming in the next two years with GOP'ers in control of the House differs galactically from how the Village sees things.

The most important item on the agenda of the Villagers and Republicans will undoubtedly be the total destruction of Barack Obama as President. Nothing to address our nation's most serious problems will even be entertained over the next two years. As gridlock sets in like super glue, the Village will split their time between the Very Serious accusations from Republicans of the President….and showcasing the imbecilic Palin with endless clips from her new Discovery Channel Reality Show.

I'm getting nauseous just thinking about what comes next.

President Barack Obama has stated repeatedly over the past 21 months that he prefers to "look forward, not backward", which meant, and still means, that he didn't, and still doesn't, want to bog down his presidency by illuminating the collossal failures and rampant criminality of the Republican leaders, Bush-Cheney.

This gracious gesture on Obama's part, not simply ignoring Bush era crimes but embracing them as his own by pro-actively covering them up, will be responded to in January 2011….and it won't be in kind.

Think back to the worst presidency in American history when a Democratic Congress led by Speaker Pelosi took impeachment of a Republican President Bush "off the table"? Remember that uniting-rather-than-dividing pragmatic gesture?

Well, Republicans remember too….and have no intentions of doing what Nancy Pelosi did. Instead, if Republicans take the Congress, everything is going to be on the table….

August 16, 2010….

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., the ranking Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued a scathing staff report today……It charges the Obama administration with violating federal laws to advance what the Government Accounting Office has characterized as an unlawful "covert campaign," using federal resources "to activate a sophisticated propaganda and lobbying campaign."

Was this alleged "covert campaign" by Obama a "propaganda" campaign to lead our nation into a war of choice, hide torture, or lie about spying on all Americans illegally?

"The use of taxpayer dollars and federal employees to create an alliance whereby the NEA becomes the de facto strategic communications arm of the White House is unlawful," the report alleges. "Using a government e-mail account and government personnel and resources to host a call using artists and arts group to support the president's agenda is a clear violation of federal law."

May 26, 2010….

In an e-mail with the subject line "The Sestak Affair – Obama's Watergate?", the ranking member on the Oversight and Government Reform committee focused on "long-standing questions" about the offer (Joe) Sestak says was made to him to urge him to drop out of the Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary.

May 24, 2010…..the same corrupt media which helped to advance the impeachment of another Democratic President, Bill Clinton…..

May 26, 2010…..

In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder today, all seven Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee “urge the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate Congressman Joe Sestak’s claim that a White House official offered him a job to induce him to exit the Pennsylvania Senate primary race against Senator Arlen Specter.”

June 15, 2010….Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN)…

[T]he thing is, here we are, people can't wait until November. They're practically lining up for polls now, they can't wait to go out and vote. The only thing is people wish Barack Obama was up for re-election right now, because they'd honestly love to have a chance to throw him out of office. Everywhere I go, people ask me, 'Michele, can we impeach the president?'

July 22, 2010…..Bachmann again….

"I think that all we should do is issue subpoenas and have one hearing after another, and expose all the nonsense that has gone on.

January 2010 poll of Republicans asking whether President Obama should be impeached , or not….

43% of Republican men said yes.
39% of all Republicans said yes.

While Obama has fought to keep us looking forward, not backward….the irony is that the conservative movement in America, assisted mightily by a corporately controlled and corrupt media, has been fighting to take America backwards. Not just looking backwards so we can learn from our mistakes, but looking backwards in order to take us backwards.

All the way back to the days of the contrived, embarassing and trivialized impeachment of President Bill Clinton, the days which kick started the now hopelessly divided nation that we have become, the days which led directly to the Bush-Cheney crimes that President Obama, still today, refuses to look backwards at.

Voting a few weeks from now to place Republicans into majority Congressional status would be comparable to holding Nero's fiddle for him while Rome burned to the ground.

The voting machines haven't even been set up yet and already the Republicans, drool sloppily dripping uncontrollably from their mouthes, are pissing in their pants with excitement over the prospect of…..shutting the government down.

Steve Benen at the Washington Monthly…

Likely Senate candidate Joe Miller (R) in Alaska told Fox News last week that GOP lawmakers must have the "courage to shut down the government" in order to eliminate government programs he doesn't like. Right-wing CNN personality Erick Erickson said with child-like excitement yesterday, "I'm almost giddy thinking about a government shutdown next year. I cannot wait!"

And sleazy GOP consultant Dick Morris told activists late last week that Republicans should do exactly as Gingrich/Dole did 15 years ago, but this time it'll work out better.

"There's going to be a government shutdown, just like in '95 and '96 but we're going to win it this time and I'll be fightin' on your side," Morris said at the Americans for Prosperity Foundation Conference on Friday in Washington. [...]

Morris sounded a similar note in April, suggesting in a speech the Republicans should force a shutdown over health care funding.

It's gonna' all be just soooo great.

If there were ever an election cycle when Americans shouldn't even be considering voting for Republicans…..this one coming up in November….is the one.

Republicans are willing….and anxious….to fulfill Grover Norquist's wet dream of "drowning the government in a bathtub". Newtie tried to push the U.S. government's head under water long enough to kill it back in the 90's…..but he wound up injuring himself in the process.

I'll give the extremist Republicans (is there really any other Republicans now?) credit. They don't hide their intentions.

What are those intentions? Eliminate….phase out…Social Security. Replace Social Security with a Wall Street privatization program. Privatize Medicare, replacing our current system with vouchers to purchase for-profit insurance. Repeal the timid Obama health care legislation. Repeal Obama's timid re-regulation of the financial industry.

Make American Muslims and Hispanic Americans permanent second-class citizens. Militarize America's borders. Force underage incest and rape victims to carry to term their rapist's child. End all forms of affirmative action for blacks. Propagandize public school textbooks, revising American history to be more extremist-right favorable.

Begin a 24 month program….I guess, after shutting down the government,…..to "restore honor" to the executive branch. Investigating ghosts of liberation theology, birth certificates, bowing and Black Panthers, concluding in a Fox-led, clusterf*ck impeachment of the Dark Knight…..the One who "isn't really one of us."

An objective person might suggest that America's political-media discourse couldn't possibly get any more batsh*t crazy…..but that objective person would be mistaken. Just wait.

Back in the 90's, when Ken Starr was sniffing panties and preparing to prosecute President Clinton….I thought, surely these guys weren't going to try to remove a president for fibbing about a blowjob. I was mistaken.

In the fall of 2000, when Justice Scalia was preparing to save the nation from President Al Gore….I thought, surely these guys are going to allow Florida to handle their recount by themselves as the rule of law dictates…..but I was mistaken.

During all of 2002, and especially after the State of the Union address in January 2003…..I thought, surely these guys are not going to attack Iraq, a non-threatening-to-the-U.S. sovereign country….but I was mistaken.

After the revelations about torture, illegal wiretapping of Americans, outing a covert CIA agent, extraordinary rendition,…..and the cascade of lies which followed…..I thought, surely governmental leaders would do the proper and legal thing…..and remove an obviously criminal executive from office. But I was way wrong.

So….if you might be toying with the idea that…."it won't be THAT bad, if Republicans take back Congress"…..you had better be doing some rethinking.

After Gingrich shut down the federal government in the 90's, a foolish and radical action which eventually backfired on Newtie, Republicans went forward and impeached President Clinton, paving the way for a Black Robed Regiment to place George W. Bush in the White House.

Do you honestly think that the 2010 GOP players are less radical, less extreme than their 90's counterparts?

We're about 10 weeks away from the midterm election and all political indicators suggest that Republicans stand to gain ground against Democrats in Congress this November. Nothing unusual for a new president's party to lose seats in the midterms. Everyone's question, naturally, has been: how many seats?

Republicans need a 39 seat pickup in the House to gain the majority, ushering in (if one can even believe it) Speaker John Boehner. Even though I'm still skeptical of claims that the GOP will retake the House…..it is going to be close.

In a GOP landslide midterm, Republicans would also retake the Senate majority. Looking at the races and the early projections, I think the chances of GOP success in the Senate are more remote. Not impossible, but remote.

Either way…..the end result, come January, 2011….only 4 months away….will be an entirely non-functional Congress. I'll be surprised if simple budgetary issues will be agreed upon.

If Republicans retake the majority in the House…..the next two years will be filled with investigations into President Obama. It will be a non-stop sh*t-throwing-til-something-sticks program…..similar to the witch hunting of Bill Clinton. There won't be any there there…..but that didn't stop the Gingrich-led GOP during the 90's, now, did it? Ask yourself, do you think it's less crazy now, or more so?

Our failed and decomposing corporate media, just as they did during Clinton's time, will gaze at the sh*t thrown against the wall and "report", in all Seriousness, which turd of a story is legitimate enough to run on a 24/7 loop for weeks on end.

One of the liberal blogosphere's biggest complaints about President Obama has been his inexplicable willingness to pre-emptively compromise with Republicans in order to appear bipartisan. That approach has been a fool's errand, at best. President Obama has been pre-caving, as it were, and doing so with a rather large Democratic majority in the House and the Senate.

I say this not to denigrate Obama. I still regard him as a breath of fresh air, especially after the noxious atmosphere of evil the nation was forced to breathe from 2001-2009. Instead, I say this in order to take a realistic view of how a President Obama will respond to a GOP controlled Congress.

One thing is certain. Come January 1, 2011, while Obama is figuring out what he can compromise on in order to, you know, appear bipartisan…….the 2012 presidential campaign will have begun….and in earnest. In fact, in our current hyper-political environment, the 2012 presidential campaign will officially begin November 3, 2010.

All that the American people will be left with is government by hysteria.

Consider any of several recent government-by-hysteria events and you will understand what I'm getting at. Take the totally inexplicable "birther" hysteria. Or the despicable defunding of ACORN over entirely fraudulent accusations ginned up by a still-pissing-in-his-pants, Jimmy O'Keefe, channeled through the propaganda arm of the GOP, Fox News. Or the embarassing Shirley Sherrod all-in hysteria.

How about the "American SuperMax prisons and American courts aren't safe" hysteria in which bong-hitting conservatives successfully kept America's first offshore gulag open for business? Or our current shame….that American Muslims are America's enemies.

Consider those hysteria-driven insults to all Americans, and many more I could mention……and then ask yourself, do you think that with a tighter Congress or a GOP controlled Congress…..the pattern of government by hysteria will lessen or intensify?

Me too.

What can be done to alter our government by hysteria trajectory?

I have no freaking idea.

Hillary's infamous "vast right wing conspiracy" of the early 90's has matured into a fully developed hysteria machine of mass destruction. That machine, daily, pours the gasoline of embarassingly ignorant hysteria over the millions of already-poorly informed American voters. Non-voting Americans, about half of us, left through the exit doors marked "cynical", long ago.

I know that democracy is messy. Even though I'm a progressive, I consider myself a realist. Making progress, moving forward to solve national problems is hard.

I just never counted on this level of hysteria.

Torture on dudes.

The Justice Department has released the long-awaited report on the torture memos and the conduct of Bush Administration lawyers including John Yoo.

While the final report by the department's internal watchdog, the Office of Professional Responsibility, found that attorneys John Yoo and Jay Bybee engaged in professional misconduct, top DOJ official David Margolis overruled that finding in a memo to Attorney General Eric Holder.

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Margolis, the most senior nonpolitical official in the Justice Department, has served for many years, including during the Bush Administration.

The Office of Professional Responsibility had found this…..

After it became apparent, during the course of our review, that relevant documents were missing, we requested and were given direct access to the email and computer records of REDACTED, Yoo, Philbin, Bybee, and Goldsmith. However, we were told that most of Yoo's records had been deleted and were not recoverable. [Former Deputy AAG] Philbin's email records from July 2002 through August 5, 2002 — the time period in which the Bybee Memo was completed and the Classified Bybee Memo (discussed below) was created — had also been deleted and were reportedly not recoverable.

Bush and Cheney asked lawyers like Yoo and Bybee to "legalize" acts of known-to-be-illegal torture. Torturing prisoners or detainees is a violation of American laws and an abrogration of the Convention Against Torture which the U.S signed on to in the 1980's under Republican President, Ronald Reagan.

Since torturing prisoners or detainees is blatantly illegal, the only way Bush-Cheney could skirt culpability for ordering torture was to have some "legal" escape mechanism. That was the purpose behind Bush-Cheney's call to faithful lawyers Yoo and Bybee to come up with some "legal" justification for ordering something unquestionably illegal.

Now, because of Bush-holdover at the Dept. of Justice, David Margolis…..the Office of Professional Responsibility's findings resulting in their call for some form of discipline for Yoo and Bybee….have been sh*tcanned….overruled.

Which means that the crime of torture AND the crime of "legalizing" torture to give the torture-orderers plausible deniability have both been successfully carried out……without ANY findings of guilt or responsibility.

I find it odd when the world's lone superpower impeaches a Democratic President for fibbing in a civil suit, later thrown out, about sex…..while refusing, with prejudice, to hold a Republican President responsible for the transparently-illegal act of ordering detainees to be tortured. Doesn't anyone else find this odd?

Hypothetical: Republican Scott Brown becomes president in 2020. A terrorist attack happens somewhere in the midwest U.S. President Brown calls in a couple of lawyers and orders them to "legalize" internment camps for American citizens with middle-eastern roots. With plausible deniability in hand, President Brown begins rounding up a whole bunch of American Muslims and placing them in prison camps.

Would this act by President Brown be legal?

If it would be…..then what would a president not be able to order his lawyers to "legalize"?

Story of this Wisconsin billboard here.

By definition, in modern America, if a Democrat has been elected president……impeachment is the response. It all started in earnest with the nationally embarassing "birther" folks….Palin, Partiers, and the Fox Propagandists who love them, have successfully convinced over half of all Republican voters that Obama, really, is not one of us.

The only resolution to the Obama "problem", at least for bizarro conservatives, is impeachment. No reason will be necessary, just as there was no reason for the Clinton impeachment.

Everything we've witnessed from our hopelessly corrupt corporate media industry since Obama became president has been for the purpose of returning GOP tax-cutters-for-the-wealthiest back to Congressional power. The drooling by the likes of Wolf Blitzer, Chris Matthews, Anyone at Fox, et.al……drooling that has gone on every day since January 20, 2009…..is all over hope of a GOP comeback.

If that comeback emerges, it will be accompanied with full metal jacket Villager assistance, just like in the 90's. If the GOP reclaims the House, Senate or both this November……can there really be any doubt that everything will be on the table…..including impeachment?

Obama has been president for less than 13 months. Already, American idiots are paying for billboard ads calling for Obama's impeachment.

No, crystal balling it ain't as arousing or provocative as, say, Teabagging it…but crystal balling it is a bit more coherent and understandable than TeaBagging it…so there's that.

One year ago on October 13th, in a blog post entitled, The Upcoming Obama Presidency, The Reverend typed out these predictions….

".…..after having paid very close attention to what took place between the years of 1992-2000, I think it's safe for me to predict…..if you liked the savaging-Clinton days, you're gonna' just love the savaging-Obama days starting after January 20, 2009."

A media so corrupt, so perverse, that they couldn't even use the word lie or liar in any article they had written or on any teevee appearance for 8 straight years of an openly fraudulent and lying Bush administration…..will….magically…..snap out of the spell they've been under….and begin microscopically examining every word that Obama speaks. A main media so covered-up in their own mistaken, propagandistic, slime encrusted wrongheadedness for 8 straight years, a media who never really ever considered impeachment as worthy of discussion for the worst president America has ever known….will be balls-to-the-wall aggressive in not only savaging a President Obama but encouraging an obstructionistic-minded Republican minority to gum up the federal works with impeachment talk and accusations."

"With the upcoming Obama presidency….Democrats will have near total control. This, in itself, will anger and frustrate the extreme right so badly that (I can't help but say this) actions of violence will follow. I believe that is what we witnessed last week at McCain-Palin gatherings. The first-fruits realization by the extremist nuts on the right that they've lost the game and lost it badly, is beginning to sink in."

Maybe I should change my name to The Prophet.

But wait….there's more.

Less than 9 months into the Obama presidency and just look at what is being suggested by some of the crazy folks at Newsmax…..

There is a remote, although gaining, possibility America's military will intervene as a last resort to resolve the "Obama problem." Don't dismiss it as unrealistic.

America isn't the Third World. If a military coup does occur here it will be civilized. That it has never happened doesn't mean it wont. Describing what may be afoot is not to advocate it.

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Will the day come when patriotic general and flag officers sit down with the president, or with those who control him, and work out the national equivalent of a "family intervention," with some form of limited, shared responsibility?

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Military intervention is what Obama's exponentially accelerating agenda for "fundamental change" toward a Marxist state is inviting upon America.

After only 9 months of a new Democratic president, radical conservatives are suggesting that America needs a "military intervention" to deal with the "Obama problem."

Newsmax is a primary source for American wingnuts. I am sure that main-whore-media will soon be asking conservative Democrats, and in all seriousness, whether, indeed, the military should intervene to stop President Obama from carrying out his Constitutional duties as president.

It is the job of main-whore-media to investigate and report on the unhinged and insane beliefs of the American wingnuts….as witnessed in the main-whore-media's coverage of Rush Limbaugh's "I want Obama to fail", the TeaBagger incoherent nuttiness, townhall bust-ups complete with semi-automatic weaponry, and most recently, the Beck-ClusterFox 9-12'er event attended by a minimum of one zillion people. (one zillion equaling approximately 60,000.)

No matter how crazy American wingnuts behave, or talk, (like in the cases of Sarah Palin or Joe "You Lie" Wilson), main-whore-media, just like they did during Bill Clinton's days, MUST take it very seriously and dwell on all the "implications" for weeks.

What I'm saying, after having predicted one year ago what we're now experiencing, is that the ugliness will get worse. The craziness, the frenziness, the threats, the intimidation, the witchhunts…..and, eventually, the calls for violence…unfortunately….will only get worse.

America has entered a domestic crisis period.

Maybe you saw David Fluffy Gregory's interview with Bill Clinton this past weekend on Meet the Press. The Village Fluffy, always trying to keep it real, asked Clinton about that "vast right wing conspiracy"…..

Fluffy…."Your wife, famously, talked about the vast right wing conspiracy targeting you. As you look at this opposition on the right to President Obama….is it still there?"

Clinton…."Oh, you bet. Sure it is. It's not as strong as it was because America has changed demographically…but it's as virulent as it was. I mean, they're saying things about him, you know, it's like when they accused me of being a murderer and all that stuff they did. But, it's not really good for the Republicans in the country, what's going on now. They may be hurting President Obama, they can take his numbers down, they can run his opposition up. But fundamentally, he and his team have a positive agenda for America. Their (GOP'ers) agenda seems to be wanting him to fail. And that's not a prescription for a good America……"

In the 1990's, when Newt and his majority Republican gang persuaded Clinton to vote to gut American jobs with NAFTA and further punish the poverty class by "reforming" welfare, the vast right wing conspiracy rewarded Bubba's move to the right by hounding him mercilessly with made-up-sh*t. Then came the impeachment. That was the beginning of the incoherent, unintelligible and mindless Wingnut World that we are so privileged to be burdened with today.

That, and the birth of the 4th Estate's anti-Christ, FOX "News."

But I disagree slightly with Clinton here. The American winger world is MORE virulent today than during the 90's. The automatic weapons-bearing outside presidential townhalls, the 4-fold increase in threats to Obama versus threats to W., the hourly-generated lies and frenzied propaganda by a corrupt and rotted corporate media, the unhinged encouragement to behave badly by main media sponsors of anti-Obama Tea Parties and 9-12 events, the proliferation of Mao, Stalin, Castro, and Hitler signs equating Obama with tyrants……..all of it for the purpose of poisoning Obama's presidency, intimidating Americans and making the wingers feel better about themselves in a nation which has embarassingly rejected their now-dead conservative policies of intolerance, lassez-faire, trickle-down capitalism, and imperialistic wars of choice.

Why is the virulence worse now? Democrats not only have the Presidency now, like they did during the 90's, but also a firm majority in Congress. When political rats are cornered, as it were, they can prove the old adage of being "crazier than sh*thouse rats."

American conservatives say they are sticking to their principles in their virulent opposition to Obama and the Democrats. And that, of course, is the problem. Conservative principles have led directly to today's marginalized and impotent Republican Party,…..regionalized to mainly the southern states. Only 7% of all New Englanders, for example, identify now with the GOP.

Today's conservative "resistance" is more virulent now because the U.S.S Ronald Reagan is slowly sinking into the dark waters of political policy irrelevance. Rather than going through serious self-examination, acknowledging that America has changed, rather than coming up with new ideas for the 21st century……today's GOP, today's conservatives, apparently, would rather hang around their old stomping grounds, the political outhouse……where they can dart out daily, looking and sounding all crazy…..in the hopes of scaring any progressive change away.

On August 12, I wrote this….

The "rage" is not over government spending….or tax rates…..or deficits….or any of the flimsy excuses laid down by oh-so-serious conservatives and libertarians.

The rage, the passion has been caused by the man, now the president, Barack Obama. He is a black man. He is a Democrat. And that's what the bust-ups of health reform town halls are all about.

It won't matter what the issue, policy or topic is……the rage we've seen from before the election, the rage we see at the Tea Parties, and the rage we see at the town hall bust-ups…..will be repeated over and over BECAUSE…..America elected a black Democratic president.

It really ain't that complicated.

Yesterday, Digby reminded her readers about this from one of President Chuck Grassley's town halls….

President Barack Obama is a fascist.

This and other assertions flew through an emotionally-charged town hall meeting conducted by Sen. Chuck Grassley Monday in Pocahontas.

"The president of the United States, that's who you should be concerned about. Because he's acting like a little Hitler," said Tom Eisenhower, a World War II veteran. "I'd take a gun to Washington if enough of you would go with me."

And then Digby channels The Reverend….

Why is it that these people keep alluding to shooting Obama all the time? (And why doesn't anyone give a damn?) Are they so far gone that they really believe that potential government spending requires them to start shooting? Seriously, nobody's taxes have gone up. Nobody's. The recession was already a year old when Obama took office and Bush spent a huge surplus on tax cuts for rich people which these fools all applauded like trained seals.

So they are not very convincing when they try to say that their violent rhetoric is based upon some abstract fear of deficits and socialism. Nothing that Obama has done so far can possibly justify the wild-eyed, slavering, full blown lunacy we are seeing at these town halls.

The simple truth is that they are all a bunch of self-centered, childish sore losermen who refuse to accept that a Democrat won the presidency. And for at least some of them, the fact that a black Democrat won the presidency has obviously sent them around the bend. They are in the grip of a powerful reckoning in which it turns out that most Americans don't actually agree with their cramped worldview. Hence the crack-up.

That is exactly right.

However, 4th estate representatives just can't see it. Check this out from McClatchy's Steven Thomma in today's Beacon Journal…

"Finger pointing and yelling at town hall meetings this summer are signs of a country that's been building toward a boiling point for several years, stressed by a quickly changing economy, a flood of immigration and threats at home by terrorists.

It's a land at turns frustrated and irate at a government that led its people into an unpopular war, proved itself inept at helping its citizens in a disastrous hurricane, presided over a historic economic collapse, then went on a spending spree that could commit the country to decades of crushing debt."

For Thomma, it's all just one big grab bag of frustration and resentment towards government. Even though no town hall bust-ups with crazies bearing guns was ever witnessed during the last administration, no nationally organized parties of protests over a Republican controlled federal government doubling the national debt in 8 short years were ever held, or even considered,…..to Thomma, recent conservative expressions of bitter hatred and rage over health care and spending under 8 months of Obama is all part and parcel of the same American distaste and frustration with government, which periodically and with no comprehensible pattern, just randomly appears on the national scene.

Clueless is not the correct word to describe Thomma's purposely dishonest piece of rubbish. Look at how he tiptoes around, hoping the reader won't notice what he's doing….

"This anger is more focused on the federal government, a resurgence of the hostility toward the government that started with Vietnam in the 1960s and Watergate in the 1970s, faded in the 1980s, resurfaced in the early 1990s and then faded away again."

See….the hippies who thought the federal government shouldn't recklessly murder 58,000 U.S. soldiers…..for no reason,…..those who wanted to see the second most lawless president in American history held accountable for his lawlessness…..were simply a piece of the whole. The whole being that Americans typically are frustrated and angry at their government. Nothing unusual.

But that frustration and anger…."faded in the 80's, resurfaced in the early 90's and then faded away again", says Thomma…..without providing any context whatsoever. In the 80's America saw Republican presidents, but in the 90's we had President Clinton, then in the 00's when we had another Republican president, public anger "faded again."

That's the story, Mr Thomma. During Democratic presidents, conservative ragers, the same ragers who slumber during Republican presidents, you know, are angrily awakened. That's the story. Not that Americans are, you know, randomly enraged at government in undetectable cycles.

Thomma, like most Village writers and conservative commenters, simply cannot tell the truth about the reality staring all of us in the face.

In modern history, when Republicans have been elected president, very little mass displays of rage and vicious, hatefilled anger was ever organized on a national basis against the government. During the 90's and now once again with Obama, the uncontrollable rage has returned.

The message of this madness is simple, as Digby and I have clearly outlined. A Democrat has been elected president, a black man with progressive solutions for America's future. A future that conservatives have never wanted any part of…..ever.

Thus, the manufactured rage.

Extra credit: The "Kraut" puts on his most cynical hat and taunts all those who think health care reform can be accomplished in America. An article which features the bastardly, bitterness of Mr. Krauthammer, the Very Serious Journalist whom the AB Journal dearly loves.