From The Rude Pundit

[SeattleGirl]

Just read his newest piece, and this paragraph jumped out at me about the mess Obama still faces in trying to help this country out of the rubble that Bush left it in:

You want symbolism? Let's go to the heart of it. If you head over to downtown Manhattan, you can finally see something beginning to sprout at the site of the fallen Twin Towers. That fucking hole was created eight and a half years ago under the presidency of George W. Bush. It took nearly five years to clear the debris. And only now does it look like something might some day replace the destruction. The new place is scheduled to open in 2013, a dozen years after the damage was done. Hell, it's not until then that we'll know if we even like the joint. You got that? They had to haul away the wreckage before the building could even start on the hole left behind.


Whole piece is here: http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/

I wish more people understood like the rude one does (and the BOGgers too)

[Born_A_Truman]

1. Brilliant

[Cha]

2. Thanks, Seattle Girl,..

That is excellent symbolism for what actually happened and what the challenge has been.

[treestar]

3. good point.

I can't stand these progressives for whom enough has been done quickly enough.

[firedupdem]

4. Excellent!

I never read an article by him before.

This hit the nail on the head:

So, just to get this straight, a year ago, we inaugurated a President who campaigned on health care reform more liberal than either of the bills passed in the House and Senate. Nearly every campaign speech, nearly every debate, nearly ever interview with candidate Barack Obama contained the promise of a push for universal health care for Americans. You couldn't not know about it unless you actually blocked out the words from your brain. And we voted him in with a Congress that had vast majorities from his party precisely because we wanted his agenda to pass. That's what we did, a year ago. And tonight, should Scott Brown win in Massachusetts because Martha Coakley sucked as a candidate, Barack Obama will still be president with vast Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress.

Yet for Brooks, it would be "arrogant, elitist and contemptuous" for Democrats to do exactly what they were elected to do a year ago. He'd be right if he was talking about the exact opposite. It's actually contemptuous of the American voters for Democrats to ignore the results of 2008 because all of a sudden people are getting shit-scared of actual change and not just the fantasy of change.

No, what actually needs to happen is that Americans need to stop being such pussies about transforming the country. Yeah, yeah, there's plenty of time to pile on the Democratic Party and President Obama. But for the moment, let's talk about what pathetic little bitches many Americans have become since the election. It's like an average-looking dude who finally gets a chance to fuck a supermodel and can't get it up, so he blames the supermodel for being so intimidatingly hot that his dick is scared of failure. No, asshole, it's your fault.

[Hekate]

5. Wow. All right. Well done, Rude Pundit.

:wow: Yeah.

Hekate

[SeattleGirl]

6. I love The Rude Pundit!

He's usually so spot on in what he says, AND he is SOOOO elegantly rude to boot!

[gratefultobelib]

7. Rude and I are Facebook friends!