Bush backers showing loyalty to a fault (L Pitts Jr)

[struggle4progress]

By Leonard Pitts Jr.
Knight Ridder Newspapers

<snip> I found that shocking, but that's only because I had thought Bush physically incapable of taking responsibility. Having watched him brazen his way through successive botches and bungles here and abroad with an Alfred E. Newman grin and a maddening insistence that botches and bungles were part of the master plan, I thought Bush's eyes would roll back if he even came close to saying, "My bad."

So I have a question for the Bush jihadists, that shrinking but stubborn minority that still thinks Dubya walks on water and calls down rain. What's it going to take to make you folks stop sending me e-mails by the dozens railing at how the great and powerful Bush is being mistreated by that darned liberal media?

Take, for instance, Tom in Boynton Beach, who says criticism of Bush is a sop to the "America-hating extreme left wing." Or Darwin -- I don't know where he's from -- who says liberals are playing "the blame game." And on and on.

It is, of course, their standard defense, akin to a child sticking index fingers in her ears and shouting "Lalalalala, I can't hear you!" until you stop committing the sin of reason. In this case, the argument goes that Bush is being blamed for failures that should be assigned to state and local officials in Louisiana and Mississippi. It's their fault, not his. <snip>

http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/opinion/12669024.htm

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. this crrowd will defend dubhya even if he kills a child on national

TV... they are disgusting... true belief over country

[shraby]

2. The administration literally DID kill children

on national t.v. At the superdome and at the convention center.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. I've said this before

Bush could take a shit on these people's dinner plate and they'd still be loyal to him.

[Gman]

4. If Bush were caught in bed with a dead woman or a

live boy they'd blame the liberal media for prying into his private life then blame the dead woman or live boy.

[DIKB]

5. The fact that there are ANY

people still loyal to * just proves that there are certain groups of humans that are PURE SCUM. * Loyalists, for me, fall in the same category as racists, nazis, and the like. I look at them and cannot fathom how someone could be THAT deranged, hate filled, and ignorant.

[VPStoltz]

6. The last lineof this piece sums it up perfectly.

[Laelth]

7. Read this essay in the local paper this A.M.

I was pleasantly surprised to find it in the Macon Telegraph. Pitts hits a home run in this column. Couldn't agree more.

-Laelth

[tom_paine]

8. "Hitler backers showing loyalty to a fault"

Same thing. Created by the descendant of the same Propaganda Machine and Strategy that was responsible for Germany's insanity.

Will OURS be kinder and gentler, or will in the end it be what it always has been in one form or another, in the end...murderously ravenous.

Stay tuned. I think we find out within this century and perhaps MUCH sooner.

[blindpig]

9. Check out this weeks Tom Tomorrow

addresses this issue succinctly.