The World's Stupidest Pundit, Again

He's baaaack!

But the message in this case truly is the medium. The e-mails pulse in my queue, emanating raw hatred. This spells trouble -- not for Bush or, in 2008, the next GOP presidential candidate, but for Democrats. The anger festering on the Democratic left will be taken out on the Democratic middle. (Watch out, Hillary!) I have seen this anger before -- back in the Vietnam War era. That's when the antiwar wing of the Democratic Party helped elect Richard Nixon. In this way, they managed to prolong the very war they so hated.

The hatred is back. I know it's only words now appearing on my computer screen, but the words are so angry, so roiled with rage, that they are the functional equivalent of rocks once so furiously hurled during antiwar demonstrations. I can appreciate some of it. Institution after institution failed America -- the presidency, Congress and the press. They all endorsed a war to rid Iraq of what it did not have. Now, though, that gullibility is being matched by war critics who are so hyped on their own sanctimony that they will obliterate distinctions, punishing their friends for apostasy and, by so doing, aiding their enemies. If that's going to be the case, then Iraq is a war its critics will lose twice -- once because they couldn't stop it and once more at the polls.

They all endorsed a war??? Maybe against you, Richard Cohen, but not Iraq. Richard Cohen is being a whiny ass titty baby because some people had the nerve to get angry about the way this country is being run and we let him know about it, but by doing so we obviously made the taste of that cocktail weenie he was eating at his "bipartisan ball of love and friendship" go ever so slightly sour. Richard Cohen does not like it when his cocktail weenies go bad, and he is going to throw a mean ass temper tantrum in return.

By the by, if you're wondering what would happen if we took Cohen's sage, inside the beltway, conventional wisdom advice and made nice to Republicans - "ethics problems? Who doesn't have them?!" "Everyone starts a war and kills hundreds of thousands of people on false premises one or two times in his life" and who can't forget "They'll give you a reacharound and rub your belly if you bend over far enough" - see the years 2000-2004. The fact that anyone can keep swallowing this tripe is enough to make your blood curdle.

No reason to be angry? Only real whackjobs don't like the president? Well, Little Richie, they don't call him Mr. 31 for nothing. It's nice that you like to believe that the emperor is wearing clothes and they are the finest you've ever seen - but that doesn't make those of us who can prove that he's naked a part of a feverswamp. It just lets us know that we are correct, and we will continue to shout it as long as we have air to breathe - even if it makes your cocktail weenie shrivel up.

Atrios and Digby both weigh in.