solarbird | Everyone's up in arms, and it's pissing me off

Everyone's all up in RAEG about this GOP asshole heckling Mr. Obama during the speech tonight. Everybody's talking about "decency" and "civility" and "respect."

You know what I wish? I wish one goddamn Democrat or one goddamn Republican had had the goddamn fortitude to call out Mr. Bush like this. Sure, this guy's probably acting in bad faith - the entire strategy of the GOP is to destroy the Obama presidency one way or another, economy and government be damned, so why the hell not? Or hey, maybe he's like most of the GOP at this point, and is sincere in his delusions. I don't care! It doesn't matter.

Because FUCK "decency." FUCK "civility." FUCK "respect." Political "decency" in the face of what anyone who understands math recognised as complete asshat bullshittery got us the Iraq war. Civility got us the surveillance state that Mr. Obama endorses. Respect got us the torture regime and the principle of the lawless Executive that Mr. Obama doing nothing substantive to unravel and quite a bit to protect.

Fuck that. It's long past time for people to call people out.