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.

As we have witnessed in real time…..ex 1/2 term governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, is an opportunist. Sarah is in it for the money, and perhaps the fame. That's why she quit the governor's job. Palin's brief stint as McCain's VP running mate gave her just the right amount of exposure to make leaving the governor's job profitable….so that's what she did. The report so far is that her book "Going Rogue" has made Sarah and the First Dude millionaires….so it's all working out the way Sarah had imagined. Good for her.

What Sarah Palin is not…..is a serious political candidate. Sarah, as we all witnessed during the 2008 campaign, has little, if any, understanding of…well….much of anything. When it comes to national and international policies, history, America's system of law,….or stuff like "war"….Sarah Palin is little more than a female version of Fox's Sean Hannity…..clueless, disingenuous, or both.

Here's what she said Saturday night in Tennessee in an attempt to criticize the Obama administration, as she addressed the "we don't like Obama" T-Party crowd ….

"New terms used like “overseas contingency operation” instead of the word “war.” That reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can’t spin our way out of this threat. It’s one thing to call a pay raise a job created or saved. It’s quite another to call the devastation that a homicide bomber can inflict a “manmade disaster.” And I just say, come on, Washington. If nowhere else—national security—that’s one place where you got to call it like it is."

But…..see…..America is not at "war"……

…strictly speaking, we're not really "at war," as Congress has merely authorized the use of military force but has not formally or Constitutionally declared war. Even the Bush administration conceded that this is a vital difference when it comes to legal rights. In 2006, the Bush DOJ insisted that the wartime provision of FISA — allowing the Government to eavesdrop for up to 15 days without a warrant — didn't apply because Congress only enacted an AUMF, not a declaration of war.

The voting constituency Sarah Palin was addressing Saturday night in Nashville doesn't much care to hear about the Constitution…..they don't want to hear about how the U.S. hasn't officially declared war since WW2…..they don't want to admit that U.S. military adventures since WW2 have all been, basically, authorizations to use military force with a specific purpose intended.

The Tea Party Nation doesn't want to hear about the laws of America that require law enforcement to Mirandize anyone committing a crime, or suspected of committing a crime inside the U.S. No, The Tea Party gathering wanted to hear "rogue" talk, lawless talk.

The voting contingency Sarah Palin spoke to Saturday night would rather hear that Obama is America's enemy…..someone who, according to the 1/2 term ex-governor, is purposely "spinning" words and lingo to, somehow, camouflage his larger-picture intent to aid Islamic extremists. And Sarah provided.

Tea Party Nation came into being in Feb-March, 2009…..before the new Obama administration had even got settled into office. What the hopeless corporate media is today calling a serious grassroots movement is, in actuality, the leftovers of a bitter bunch of excitable Palin campaign followers angry because Democrats took over the presidency and extended their majorities in Congress.

The Tea Party group is made up of still-angry-and-bitter anti-immigration advocates…..those who still today trumpet their "no amnesty" message of intolerance. Tom Tancredo (R-CO), the most bitter and outspoken Republican who wears his "no amnesty" emotions on his shirtsleeve……..was one of the Nashville Tea Party Convention's keynote Friday evening speakers. To rousing Tea Partier applause….Tancredo shared the love…..

"people who could not even spell the word 'vote', or say it in English, put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House."

"His name," Tancredo said, "is Barack Hussein Obama."

That's what Tea Partiers came to hear. Tancredo did not disappoint.

The Tea Party group is made up of many citizens who don't want to hear the "liberal spin" that Barack Obama is…no, really…..an American citizen. What the Partiers want to hear is that Obama's American citizenship is still a 'controversy.' What the Partiers want to hear is that there is still a question about Obama's birthplace……at Tea Party Nation, the wishes of bitter, sore-losers were fulfilled…..

WorldNetDaily Editor-in-Chief Joseph Farah’s Friday night dinner speech, ….. spent around 10 of its forty minutes on questions about Barack Obama’s citizenship…..

Starting at the 4:30 mark….

So there we have it. Tea Party Nation is made up primarily of sore-loser conservative and libertarian-types who paid over $500 a seat to hear what they wanted to hear. They didn't care to hear the truth…..and they didn't hear it this past weekend in Nashville.

Instead, folks like Palin, Tancredo and WND editor Joseph Farah spouted erroneous sound bytes of intolerance, ignorance and conspiracy-theory nuttiness.

None of this is the least bit surprising after having witnessed all the hateful, bigoted and…well…stupid…Tea Party signs from last summer.

In spite of all this….is there any question in anyone's mind that our rotted and hapless Villager-driven media will remind us over and over again just how very Serious the Tea Party Nation is?

UPDATE: This should also be of interest….

[Palin] had on three opera-length strands of pearls, two white and one multi-colored. [O]n her lapel, a small pin with two flags — for Israel and the United States.

And this from Palin….

"The Republican Party would be very smart to try and absorb as much of the tea-party movement as possible," she told the crowd. "Because the tea-party movement is the future of politics."

I've been told the Baggers were, you know, independent of political party affiliation.

Yesterday, we found out that Sarah Palin is going to go to work for FOX.

Man…didn't see that one coming.

From July 3rd, last year…The Reverend on Sarah Palin's surprise resignation of her governorship….

Upon further consideration…."could be more effective outside of government"…..I think, translates into…'I can cash in my instant-celebrity chips right now.'

Bet we see her on the teevee soon, possibly with her own program.Teevee celebrities make way more money than governors.

Sarah is like the glove that fits the hand of FOX. Nothing kinky, mind you……but FOX's material is basically incoherent and silly, like Sarah and the things she says…..you know, like this….

Life is too short to compromise time and resources… it may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: "Sit down and shut up", but that's the worthless, easy path; that's a quitter's way out. And a problem in our country today is apathy. It would be apathetic to just hunker down and "go with the flow".

Nah, only dead fish "go with the flow".

Remarkable, isn't it?

Not quite as remarkable as knowing that the modern Republican Party's choice for president in 2008, John McCain, picked a running mate to be, theoretically, a heartbeat away from becoming the president of the world's only superpower,….who didn't know much of anything about anything…..

I fondly recall the comment threads when I was told by conservatives……repeatedly……that Ms. Palin was more qualified to be president of the U.S. than Mr. Obama. Good times….those.

The entertainment outlet, Fox News, employs numerous women similar to Mrs. Palin. Those women are attractive, like Sarah, but don't know much of anything either, just like Sarah. What do you think the chances are that Fox will tart-up Mrs. Palin, like they do their other fembot teleprompter readers…in order to capture more of that, you know, horny 19-54 male audience?

No matter……I will guarantee you that Mrs. Palin will continue to play that victim card she carries around with her all of the time.

Palin exploited her children for political gain and then whined when the media asked questions about her family. Palin used the main media to gain notoriety, but when media asked her questions, she complained that the media was biased and unfair. Palin's 1/2 term governorship in Alaska coupled with her few months exposure as McCain's running mate was all Sarah needed to launch a lucrative national-celebrity career on the teevee,…but she continully whined and moaned, feigning victimhood, if anyone ever pointed out her transparent opportunism.

"And though it's honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for the decisions I make."

Only Sarah of Arc has been victimized, no one else like her has ever experienced anything like what poor Sarah has had to put up with. She, alone, makes history with the wretched way she was treated by….Katie Couric and Charles Gibson….you know, asking questions and all.

Palin has been treated so unfairly, unlike anyone ever before has been treated, really….she had no choice but to quit her low paying job as governor, and go get a new, much, much higher paying job with FOX. See how badly that "liberal" media and those "socialist" Democrats treated Sarah Palin. See what they made Sarah do?

I can't imagine Sarah's mental pain and anguish, after being treated nearly as badly as the Lord she worships was treated….to then have to be paid huge sums of money for sitting in front of a teevee camera……how much can one woman and mother take?

Is there any doubt, whatsoever, that Mrs. Sarah Palin is American conservatism's first 21st century female martyr?

Finally….what do the following have in common….Fox News, Glenn Beck, Michelle Bachmann, and now, Sarah Palin?

Answer: All four exploit the incoherent Tea Party movement for personal fame and fortune.

Conservatives…..you are being had.

Sarah is returning to where it all started for her……

Ever see the person dressed up in a gorilla costume standing at an intersection holding a furniture or bedding store sign? Sure you have. Looks kind of stupid, gesturing wildly and so forth, to get drivers' attention. That gorilla is a good representation of today's Republicans.

Each day Republicans don their stupid-looking costumes, so to speak, and go about gesturing wildly and incoherently in attempts to draw attention to themselves. No substance, no ideas, no willingness to play nice with others in order to solve pesky problems……just stupid looking, acting and speaking primates scratching their hineys, throwing feces, making loud and screechy noises, doing anything to get the attention of the Village-media zookeepers, who will always throw the gorillas a bag full of peanuts in prime time coverage rewarding them for their amusing behavior.

Sometimes the amusing, dressed-up-as-gorillas-to-gain-attention Republicans behave so bizarrely, even the Village-media zookeepers get alarmed and turn away. Except for Rachel Maddow.

There are two GOP Senators, Jim DeMint (R-SC), Sam Brownback (R-KS) and at least one Congressional representative, Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) in the following video clip. Demonstrated in the clip is what American leadership will look like if the Sarah Palin-TeaBagger-Talibangelicals ever rise to power in the U.S.

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Recent polling numbers show that 41% of people polled regard the TeaBaggers approvingly. 41%……yeah, it's hard to believe.

With corporately-compromised Democrats leaving potential Democratic voters despondent because of their refusal to get tough and do the will of the majority of Americans, it is conceivable that the gorilla-costumed Republican Party TeaBaggers could rise to snatch the majority in Congress.

Wouldn't it just be great if the scene in Rachel Maddow's video clip above could be played out every day on the floors of the House and Senate?

Just think of how amusing it would all be.

First it was Rev. Wright…then Bill Ayers….with all the accompanying non-biased, and Pulitzer-Prize-caliber reporting. Then came the "Hillary Clinton was cheated," narrative suggesting (wrongly) that she had more primary votes than Barak Obama. All this was followed by "Obama's only a celebrity like Paris." Then came the "how can Obama overcome his problem with white voters?" question.

Sarah Palin's entry brought with it the "palling around with terrorists", "Obama is a Marxist", "real Americans in real America", and "Obama is not sufficiently patriotic." All accusations that had to be deeply plumbed for there wingnut wisdom.

Immediately following Obama's election, it became full metal jacket Blago. Obama is from Illinois, (via Kenya) Emmanuel is from Illinois, Blagojevich was governor of Illinois….ipso facto, weeks and weeks were spent "informing" us about an Illinois governor who did what every American elected official does….traded on his influence.

In January came Rush's "hope he fails" comedy routine….and a Serious search to unpack the deep profundity in that statement. The stimulus "discussion" gave opportunity for corporate-whore media to entertain (on a 2-1 basis over Democrats) the thoughts and demagoguing of Republicans and conservatives on the Sunday morning "news" programs. Despite having his electoral ass kicked, and despite the fact that McCain now plays an insignificant role in a 40 GOP'er Senate, John McCain recorded his 14th appearance on the Sunday morning "news" shows recently.

Ordering that Guantanomo would be closed brought with it such an unhinged response from dishonest neo-conservatives and their obedient knee-jerk children that the thought of dangerous criminals being held on "American soil" became the most imminent national threat. Terrorists in American prisons?….How can we ever be safe?

And then it really started to get crazy. March brought with it the TeaParty Blitz….and the long awaited return of Dick Cheney to national corporate-whore media…..this time with mini-me-Dick, daughter Liz, out spreading the "torture love" doctrine of Father Dick. Neither holds public office, Father Dick is hated by most Americans….but there they were, "news" program after "news" program, telling us to be very, very afraid if America stops torturing. You see, the Dicks are Serious.

Don't forget the marvelously patriotic and sensible "birther" movement still championed by over half of Republicans and the recently released CNN xenophobe, Lou Dobbs….and naturally, all of the AM radio talkers and FOX.

The summer of 2009 may just be referred to in the history books as the "Summer of Incoherence"….as BeckerHeads, TeaBaggers, and Townhall Buster-Uppers, some carrying loaded weapons, saturated the "news" with their sour grapes of discontent with a black Democratic president intent on destroying America and replacing it with (take your pick)….socialism, communism Maoism, Stalinism, or Nazism……all conveniently interchangeable at a moment's notice. Desperate cries of, "I want my country back", echoed repeatedly through the TeaBags.

ACORN became, overnight, one of America's most dangerous domestic enemies. Amateur wingnut videographers, working with FOX, stung those primarily-black-employee-run Acorn offices in a daring and patriotic commando raid to save us all…..I guess from signing up more black voters. "Breaking News" ensued.

"Killing grandma", "death panels", (another 1/2 term Governor Palin gem), "death books for veterans", "Obama will take away your Medicare",…filled the late summer and early fall, with yet more incoherent TeaParties and 9-12'er events, led by America's brilliant new Paul Revere, Glenn Beck…and of course, FOX. No one is sure how many Baggers turned out on Beckerhead day. Somewhere between 60,000…..and 2 million. No way to know.

Now we're being flooded with "Obama and the Democrats are sneaking in tax-payer abortions", "Obama is 'dithering' on Afghanistan", and the recent election (which added a new Democrat to the House) is a "sign that Americans are rejecting Obama's leadership," "Obama and the Democrats (after 10 months) are in deep trouble."

This past week has brought with it the "Ft. Hood massacre is the first terrorist attack in the U.S. since 9-11," proving, I'm sure, that without the Dick's torture, we are all doomed. Calls for renewing "investigations" into American Muslims and Muslim groups are rampant.

Obama left today on an Asian-countries tour….and dollars to donuts….I bet we'll get to hear all about how Obama had to get out of D.C. to avoid all the "controversies" he's created. Just more "dithering."

Now….it could just be me….but it sure as hell seems like corporate-whore media has joined with conservative and GOP wingnuts in "creating reality" for the last year and a half. An anti-Obama-and-the-Democrats narrative template has been placed overtop of ALL events since the beginning of last year.

Or maybe not. Like I said….it could just be me.

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.

In a front page Beacon article today entitled, "Obama message optional in schools", staff writer John Higgins relates what Medina City Schools Superintendent, Randy Stepp, has decided to do about Tuesday's Obama speech to school kids. Censor it.

Superintendent Stepp says he has received "about 100 e-mails and calls" and they are "evenly split over the issue."

Imagine….the calls are evenly split for and against the President of the United States talking to school children about working hard and staying in school. Encouraging America's children to learn, to work hard at learning, and to stay in school until graduation…..is now a 50-50 call out in Medina.

Yesterday, in blogging on this topic, I asked what in the hell is wrong with American conservatives. Anti-health care reform conservatives actually shouted down a woman in a freaking wheelchair at a New Jersey townhall.

Today, I ask these questions: what in the hell is wrong with Medina parents?……and why in the hell does Superintendent Stepp think he's qualified, or correct, in doing this….

Stepp, "After he does his speech, I think our high school can review it to see if it is pushing one way or the other politically, and if it's not, the next day they can come in and talk about it and see the video. I think by not showing it live and waiting, it's probably the safest decision."

Jesus. The Medina Schools Superintendent, fearful of what could happen when Obama speaks live to America's students, thinks it's "the safest decision" to not show it live. I don't know Mr. Superintendent of Medina Schools, but I gotta' say…….(put your hands over your ears)…..what the f*ck is wrong with an educational professional in the U.S. who speaks of censoring President Obama's talk to children as "the safest decision?"

Does Mr. Stepp get to decide, after reviewing Obama's talk, if the speech "is pushing one way or the other politically?" How neutral would Mr Stepp and his underlings at Medina Schools be in making that evaluation? Should Mr. Stepp's voting registration be checked to see which party he favors? What does it mean to say "our high school can review it?" That would be Mr. Stepp and his administration staff, would it not? And who in the hell qualified them to censor the president of the United States? What objective guidelines will be used by Mr. Stepp to determine whether Obama's encouragement to students to work hard and stay in school is "pushing one way or the other politically?"

Now here's the obligatory rant…..

What we're seeing now in Medina Schools over a "work hard and stay in school" message from the President to America's school children is a continuation of what Sarah Palin began during the presidential campaign. Divisive, hate-filled, xenophobic, and nonsensical displays of bitterness were part and parcel of every Palin campaign stop last fall. Palin spoke of "real America" and "real Americans." Candidate Obama, and those planning on voting for him, were not part of Palin's "real Americans."

That hatred, that bitterness, has continued and intensified since Obama's inauguration. Now, 8 months into it, and the same hateful, ignorant and bitter-losers who consider themselves the only "real Americans" are deciding whether it's "safe" for children to hear President Obama on the teevee.

The year is 2009. School districts throughout America are deciding whether it's safe for the children to hear and see the POTUS speak to them. School districts, like Medina's, fearful, I guess, that Obama has a secret plan to turn kids into "Village of the Damned" children by talking to them, will censor Obama's talk and then decide later whether Obama's talk is "safe" for kids to hear.

This craziness, this demonstration of insanity, this totally unhinged hatred from the right…..is not going to work out well for the nation.

I was an ardent supporter of Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries of last year. Obama campaigned, correctly saying that he, alone, of all the candidates, could build a new coalition of voters in America by talking straight and confronting decades-old national problems. He promised a new kind of politics and he delivered, rising above the crazy politics of personal destruction still so often played by conservatives.

Barack Obama was America's best choice for president last November. That fact still remains.

But Obama has made several costly mistakes as president. Costly for America.

The new president's biggest error, I think, was his stance from the beginning that he would not pursue investigations or prosecutions of George W. Bush and Richard Cheney's administration's numerous crimes and acts of treason. Mr. Obama explained that "looking forward" rather than backwards would be his practice more often than not. Obama explained that the pressing issues of our day would get sidelined in some grand spectacle if the rule of law was followed in regard to the Bush administration.

All the "oxygen" in Washington D.C. would be sucked out if Bush and Cheney were held accountable…..and no oxygen would be left for health care reform, global warming legislation, card check, re-regulation of the banksters, etc. That was, and still is, Obama's argument. It's a losing argument.

If Obama would have appointed a special prosecutor from the get go to deal with the past administration, Americans…Republicans, corporate-media whores, would have realized the new president meant business…..wasn't just going to f*ck around. But he didn't.

Now, even though Obama has not gone after George and Dick, you know, to save all that political oxygen, his opponents have pounced on his refusal as a sign of weakness and are feverishly working to deprive Obama from breathing life into his campaign plans. While Obama was preserving political "oxygen" by refusing to re-instate the rule of law in America, his opponents were sucking all the political oxygen from Obama's new presidency by continually repeating the craziest sh*t imaginable, lying and propagandizing at every turn.

Which brings me to the next mistake by Obama. I realize that talk of bipartisanship is usually just that….talk….but with Obama, bipartisanship has not just been talk. It's been a feature. While it is true that Obama got three GOP votes for his stimulus bill….that's basically been the extent of any Republican cooperation.

There are no more "moderate" Republicans left, with possibly the exception of Olympia Snowe (R-ME). There's literally no Republicans left to be bipartisan with. Obama was correct in sensing that the voters wanted bipartisanship, wanted cooperation in order to get stuff done, he was right that the "old politics" had worn out it's welcome……where he was wrong was in assuming that today's Republican Party was something other than a calcified fossil of radically partisan status quo-ism. Where he was wrong was in assuming he had honest-brokers in today's Republicans. He doesn't.

Sarah Palin, Michael Steele, Jon Kyl, John Cornyn, Eric Cantor, Mitch McConnell, and their cheerleaders, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, et.al. are anything BUT negotiating partners. To these leaders of the modern GOP, bipartisanship is a disease to be avoided at all costs when Democrats are in power. And bipartisanship, when Republicans are in power, is considered date rape.

So, why the foolish notion by Obama that bipartisanship must always be considered, must be first and foremost in any of his political dealings? Beats the hell out of me. On this one, I am completely stymied.

If Obama is looking to hold moderates and independents by acting oh-so-bipartisan……it's working out just the opposite. By not standing up to the crazed and radicalized Republicans, the new president has shown moderates and independents that he is weak. Current polling suggests that independents and moderates have caught on to that weakness and don't like it.

Does all this portend a return to power of the insanity-filled party of Bush? Not likely. It just means that conservatives will get their way for now…..nothing of much value will be accomplished for the American people during Obama's first term.

Oh well, there's always another election around the corner. The answer to our national paralysis is…….more and better Democrats.

The profound wisdom of Duncan Black, aka, Atrios….

"Nobody could've predicted that electing a black man president would drive this country completely f*cking insane."

The milder, less abrasive thoughtfulness of today's AB Journal editorialist….

"The furor at town-hall meetings has been revealing. It has exposed a disturbing depth of ignorance regarding the national structure of health care."

Are the swastikas, the shouting, the rudeness, the guns, the bitter signs, and all the rest of the nonsense surrounding health care reform "town halls"….. evidence of ignorance….or are they evidence of bigotry?

There are those who would argue that the staged and orchestrated brutishness we're all witnessing in and around the health care reform "town hall" meetings is a result of legitimate anger, rage even. I heard Wall Street Journal writer, Stephen Moore, say as much on Tweety's show last night. Moore said that liberals were not appreciating the depth and breadth of the rage out there in the grassroots over the "direction" in which Obama and the Democrats were taking the country.

The town hall bust-ups are simply a retread of the rage-filled Tea Party "protests"….

From The Reverend's April 15th, 2009 blog post….

'…now Cavuto (of Fox) is telling me the Sacramento protestors are protesting a state tax increase. "The rage is palpable and the rage is everywhere." Now it's rage.'

On April 8, 2009, I included a link to photos of several Tea Parties. I think it's helpful for today's discussions about town hall bust-ups to review those pictures.

This, from a 2/27/09 Cleveland Tea Party, is also indicative of what the "rage", the "passion" is all about….

But the alleged rage started back during the presidential campaign. That "rage", or bigotry, (you decide), was in full flower especially at Sarah Palin rallies last fall. Take a look….from Strongsville, Ohio….

See the theme here? 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.

Updated below with Palin resignation speech
Updated again with FOX's response.
Updated Sunday morning with more from Palin.

KTUU. com, Alaska….

Gov. Sarah Palin will resign her office in a few weeks, she said during a news conference at her Wasilla home Friday morning.

Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell will be inaugurated at the Governor's Picnic at Pioneer Park in Fairbanks the weekend of July 25, Palin said.

And it's all the bad, bad media's fault….

Reporter Andrew Wellner from the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman just appeared on CNN after attending Palin's press conference. She said, Wellner reported, that Palin said she could be more effective outside of government.

And she wholly blamed the national press, saying they were creating national distractions that cost the state money. Palin said: "You are naive if you don't see a full-court press on the national level, picking apart a good point guard."

Maybe she's going to go to work for Runner's World, you know, as a model….

Upon further consideration…."could be more effective outside of government"…..I think, translates into…'I can cash in my instant-celebrity chips right now.'

Bet we see her on the teevee soon, possibly with her own program. Teevee celebrities make way more money than governors. Hey, more power to her.

Update: I don't think I've heard a more rambling, nonsensical piece of sound than Sarah Palin's 7 minute resignation announcement. Honestly, it makes NO logical sense whatsoever….

The National Review's Jonah Goldberg writes an open letter to Ms. Palin…..

"… every time I see you on TV, you’re whining about unfair press coverage…….You are constantly taking the bait, taking up the fights your biggest fans want you to take up…..Politics is ultimately about persuasion, and you seem entirely uninterested in that, preferring instead to play the victim. Well, victims don’t get elected president."

Indeed.

Neo-con extraordinaire, Bill Kristol at the Weekly Standard….

"If Palin wants to run in 2012, why not do exactly what she announced today? It's an enormous gamble – but it could be a shrewd one…… The odds are against her pulling it off. But I wouldn't bet against it."

It could be a safe bet that Palin will enter the GOP primaries in 2012. Less safe bet that she'll take the primaries. Very bad bet that she would even come close to defeating a popular Obama. Kristol's not betting, mind you, but, you know, if he were….

Best comment thus far on the Palin resignation from a conservative site…..

MY dream ticket 2012 = Sarah Palin / Liz Cheney

those two ladies would kick Bambi (Obama)’s a~~ ; )

Palin's words from her speech announcing that she would quit as Alaska's governor….

Life is too short to compromise time and resources… it may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: "Sit down and shut up", but that's the worthless, easy path; that's a quitter's way out. And a problem in our country today is apathy. It would be apathetic to just hunker down and "go with the flow".

Nah, only dead fish "go with the flow".

That registers a 9.0 on the WTF Richter scale.

One more observation. Sarah, The Barracuda, Palin, ex-high school basketball player seems to have a unique way of approaching the game of…umm….basketball….

She has the ball, but is being trapped in the back court….

"You are naive if you don't see a full-court press on the national level, picking apart a good point guard."

What to do when trapped?….

"A good point guard drives through a full court press, protecting the ball, keeping her eye on the basket… and she knows exactly when to pass the ball so that the team can WIN."

When trapped, knowing the precise time to pass the ball is everything….

"And I know when it's time to pass the ball – for victory."

Question. Who did The Barracuda pass the ball to yesterday?

Answer. The other team.

@nd Update: The FOX response….

Headline: Sarah Palin Outsmarts the Left, no, really, that's the headline.

From the body of the piece: "Sarah Palin's resignation as Governor of Alaska is a brilliant liberating move for her career, and a potential truning point for the national conservative movement…..
No one hears of the good work she has been doing there, and the left is free to paint their own false caricature of her."

My personal favorite: "And I hope she starts a new national think tank in Washington."

More: "She should also lead the nation's mothers to oppose mandating replacement of incandescent light bulbs with the new mercury poison gas bulbs."……"If she does all that, the left won't be making jokes about her any more,…"

Hard to make stuff like this up.

Update: Palin issues message….

She, alone, is being persecuted. It's the Jesus syndrome….

"And though it's honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for the decisions I make."

There is no "different standard" being used with Palin. She taunts the media, dares them, and then points to her victimhood when they have the audacity to write anything about her. It's a self-fulfilling, perpetual-motion, persecution-creation machine.