Contrast that with comments from the administration prior to this one about the anti-war protestors, particularly from the VP. Cheney called us... what was it, a "focus group," right? Hundreds of thousands - no, millions - marching against a war (which turned out to be even more of a bad idea than we thought at the time) were a focus group. But 25,000 turning out to protest tax hikes they won't be paying and a surveillance state they applauded the creation of, though: now, that's a revolution! Anywhere from 800,000 to 1.5 million turn out for theMarch for Women's Lives in April 2004, and that rates barely a mention on the news (and even less than that on conservative blogs). But 25,000 turning out to protest tax hikes they won't be paying and a surveillance state they applauded the creation of? Now, that gets wall to wall coverage, and is declared an 'unqualified success'. I'm totally with John Thullen. The GOP and anyone, anyone at all, who pays any allegiance to those choads comprising the GOP, can ESAD, FOAD, DIAF, or just plain die. It's not about ideology. Their belief system is nowhere near organized or consistent enough to qualify as an ideology. Or a philosophy. Or even a creed. They're just a toxic blend of oblivious egoism, small-dick sadism, and bone-deep dumb.

Still – the widespread and desperate spin on the left to discredit this is all I need to call it an unqualified success. If it was really as pathetic as you are all trying to make it out to be you would just ignore it, or point and laugh This is a joke, right? Please tell me this is a joke. There is no "widespread and desperate spin" to discredit the teabaggers. They are discredited on their very face. They have no credibility. There's no need to "spin" anything. The teabaggers are funny. Pathetic, but funny. Ignorant, and funny. They're also... what's the word I'm looking for here... oh, yeah: tools. What are they protesting? They're calling Obama a socialist when they're not calling him a fascist; sometime they call him both at once. They're protesting taxes when they've already gotten tax cuts. They're blaming Obama for a cratered economy when their heroes, Bush & Co., are the ones who cratered it. They're upset now at the Surveillance State? When it's their heroes, Bush & Co., who implemented the warrantless eavesdropping and data mining and starting "disappearing" people? And we're supposed to take these morons seriously? Well, I do, actually. But not in a way you might like. I do take very seriously their threats and promises of violence. I do indeed believe they'll start killing - hell, they've already done so. Got a decent little body-count started already, only 3-odd months into Obama's Adinistration - wonder how long before the Deranged Right gives us yet another Timothy McVeigh, eh? Still – the widespread and desperate spin on the left to discredit this is all I need to call it an unqualified success. You have a very peculiar idea of what constitutes an unqualified success.