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THE ONLY THING CONSERVATIVES DO WELL: WHINE

A lot of places I go, for some inexplicable reason, have Fox News on the television. Fox News should more properly be called The Republican Propaganda Network. It's just one whining story after another about President Obama's efforts to save the economy. The "ideas" of the people at Fox News and the people they support have been given too much opportunity already. We see the horrendous results. People are losing jobs, homes, savings, and hope. But right-wingers whine and whine about what victims they are. This article by Thomas Frank is at www.commondreams.org:

Capitalist self-pity was much in vogue. Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney, looking tanned and groomed and yet strangely mechanical, joked that he needed to get through his speech "before federal officials come here to arrest me for practicing capitalism."

Jim Gilmore, a former governor of Virginia, moaned that the "philosophy" one encountered in the land these days was that "people who succeed and have wealth are bad people, and they're entitled to be discriminated against in the tax code."

Perhaps this was because the current economic crisis was being "overblown," as claimed Lew Uhler, who heads the National Tax Limitation Committee. The administration was trying "to create as much trouble for all of us as possible, and we're here to create trouble back, back, back!"

A little while later, Mr. Uhler lapsed into the same confused zombie cry as the tea partiers across town: "We're not going to stand around and take it anymore! We're mad as hell and we're not taking it!"

They're not going to take it anymore? I guess it's supposed to be obvious that conservatives are history's real victims -- that their imagined suffering at the hands of that Big Deficit to Come trumps the global systemic economic crisis and all the upheaval it may unleash.