The authoritarian impulse and the Cult of Obama (barf-up blood alert)

The authoritarian impulse and the Cult of Obama (barf-up blood alert):

"(You're just too stupid and evil to deserve Obama's wonderfulness)

America, you've been a bad, bad country. And Jacob Weisberg is very cross with you.

'It is hard to remember a more dismal moment in American politics,' Weisberg moans in a column originally written for the Financial Times. It starts out as a standard partisan attack on Republicans for failing to fall into line with liberal dogma--excuse us, 'science':

President Obama is trying to push a jobs agenda. But for the federal government to spur growth or create jobs, it has to spend additional money. The antediluvian Republicans who control Congress do not think that demand can be expanded in this way. They believe that the 2009 stimulus bill, which has prevented an even worse economy over the past two years, is actually responsible for the current weakness. . . . Some of the congressional Republicans who are preventing action to help the economy are simply intellectual primitives who reject modern economics on the same basis that they reject Darwin and climate science. Darwin is a red herring here. Although disparaging people for holding harmless religious beliefs as 'intellectual primitives' is awfully uncivil, we agree with Weisberg that people who 'reject' the theory of natural selection are mistaken.

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