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o canada : This is a riot, whether or not you agree with it.  The unbridled rage just makes me smile for some reason.

I sort of know Ian – I spent some time with him at a conference in Canada.  He’s a screenwriter in Hollywood and probably as far left as someone can go, without falling off.  He writes well, as this post demonstrates – a better mix of eloquence and profanity is tough to find.

If you’re a conservative, prepare to be seriously offended.

Philosophically, you’re no more evolved than baby ducks who imprint themselves on the first thing they see – except your Mama Duck is the venal triumvirate of Coulter/Malkin/Limbaugh, and you carry guns. It sickens me that you are part of the national conversation in any way. It’s an abominable taxation of the First Amendment that your voice is heard at all, but hear it we must, I guess.

Here’s what I find interesting: you can flip this based on who is in the White House.  Put Bush in the White House, give the political Left some victory over him, and watch a conservative write the same thing as Ian has written here (though probably less profane).

It’s all a matter of perspective, I guess.

I enjoyed this comment and can relate to it.

The 80% of the public that stands in the middle trust LITTLE of what EITHER side proposes to do. The partisanship and rancor that exists within both parties has only led to the general public’s distaste of anything that comes from Washington.

Yes, it is so easy to blame knuckle-dragging Republicans or racism for the failure of Obamacare to captivate the public. That is so easy and so inaccurate. EVERY poll (even MSNBC’s) show that the general public, not just the GOP’ers, are against it. Plus, not to be a dead horse, but the Dems don’t friggin’ need the GOP — if the plan was so superduper, pass the damn thing with your 60 votes.

Both sides suck. For every knuckle-dragging GOP’er, there is a whacko Demo praising Castro or Chavez as a great leader. Both parties should be ashamed of themselves for abusing the trust of the American peole for so many years that now the American people are going to be sooooo skeptical of anything that it proposed.