Bush Derangement Syndrome became a full-blown epidemic over the weekend.

“Richard Nixon talked to the walls — George Bush is talking to God . . .” (Tim Robbins)

LGF has this and a lot of other disturbing video from Saturday’s protest in D.C. which Charles Johnson calls the Moronic Convergence:

Here’s a selection of rough clips from today’s tantrum at the National Mall, featuring “progressive” celebrities such as CODEPINK’s Medea Benjamin and her troupe of harpies, a British Stop-The-War moonbat who advocates impeaching America’s president, a cheer from the crowd at the mention of American Taliban traitor John Walker Lindh, Sean Penn, Jane Fonda (you didn’t want to hear her talk, did you?), Tim Robbins (chewing up the scenery like a silky poodle on crack), a rapper named “Bedouin” who assures us that “Islam means peace,” and the new anti-war slogan that sums up the whole thing so beautifully, “Just Poop.”

Over at Michelle Malkin’s blog, there’s a pic of the nutters waterboarding each other. She links to this YouTube photo montage of them breaking through the Capital Police line at the Capital where they vandalized the Capital building steps with spray paint.

There were fun & games in San Fran as well! (Evidenced by this happy camper sporting a stylish yellow hat.)

(Gregory Urquiaga/Contra Costa Times)

Nine anti-war protesters were arrested by Capital Police today for unlawful assembly in a House office building.

U.S. Capitol Police spokeswoman Sgt. Kimberly Schneider said the nine were charged with unlawful assembly. Several dozen protesters congregated around a courtyard pool inside the Rayburn House office building, throwing yellow roses onto the ice as they recited the names of Iraq war victims.

Well, let’s see — screaming, chanting, violent protest and a stern warning to Hillary — What more could one ask of a group of moonbats? Gonna be one hell of an election cycle!

If you haven’t as yet, join the nearly 30,000 that have and Take the Pledge, and then call/write/fax the Senators that Hugh Hewitt has listed here and tell them that ’08 is their Waterloo if they allow cloture for any of the anti-Iraq-War resolutions being floated by the Dems! (db)

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I haven’t yet had the opportunity to finish watching the President’s State of the Union speech from last night — still need to view the last 20 minutes, so until that happens later today, (this pm?) I can’t personally comment on the most important part — his reflections and proposals on the Iraq War. But, from what I have read and heard of the pre-speech coverage, and from the last 5-7 minutes of the Democrats’ response along with most of Hannity & Colmes, which I heard via FoxNews on XM as I was driving home from my meeting in east Anaheim, our President asked the Congress, and us, the country, to give him time — not forever mind you, just some time, to implement his new strategy of a small increase in troop level combined with modified Rules of Engagement that would allow our troops to really go after — and kill — the bad guys in the most dangerous areas of Iraq.

Fueled by their core hatred of all things Bush, emboldened by the slim electoral majorities won in November, and comforted by dredging up analogies of the Vietnam War, these children of the ’60s that are now in control of the Congress are determined to undermine anything and everything that our President will try to accomplish over the remainder of his next two years in office. Hugh Hewitt lays it out on his blog this AM.

This deep derangement of a major political party is unique in American history –not even the southern Democrats of 1860 acted out of Lincoln-hatred when they split the Union, but out of a deeply misguided political theory and the desperation that economic and cultural attachment to slavery had bred.

This modern Democratic Party is almost all fury, a fury fueled by a collective though suppressed understanding that the holocaust of southeast Asia in the late ’70s and the vulnerability of America on 9/11 are both burdens at their party’s door. Watching their replay of the Vietnam-era tape means that there will be no “debate” on the war, simply the choosing of sides. Republicans who side with the Democrats on this the most important issue of the day should lose the support of their party.

Case in point — VA Senator Jim Webb gave the Democratic response, which wrapped up with this statement on the Iraq War.

“Not one step back from the war against international terrorism. Not a precipitous withdrawal that ignores the possibility of further chaos,” said Webb. “But an immediate shift toward strong regionally based diplomacy, a policy that takes our soldiers off the streets of Iraq’s cities and a formula that will in short order allow our combat forces to leave Iraq.”

Read that over a couple of times: “Not gonna step back! — Gotta get out NOW!”

Huh?

The Democrats continued with more statements like the following:

“We hope to begin working with him to move our country in a new direction,” Reid and Pelosi said in their statement.

“If he does, we will join him,” Webb said. “If he does not, we will be showing him the way.”

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will be voting on a non-binding resolution today, authored by Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., along with Sens. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, and Carl Levin, D-Mich., that will say to our troops, and to our enemies in Iraq and elsewhere, that the Senate believes that the increase in troops that President Bush plans to implement in not in our national interest. That should get ‘em to lay down their arms and come to the big pow-wow for a chat. Oh ya betcha!

Now, with all this in mind, care to speculate what all those concerned Democrats think about this?

North Korea is helping Iran to prepare an underground nuclear test similar to the one Pyongyang carried out last year.

Under the terms of a new understanding between the two countries, the North Koreans have agreed to share all the data and information they received from their successful test last October with Teheran’s nuclear scientists.

And, considering that last bit o’ info, what would our wonderful Dems think of this?

Israel and the United States will soon be destroyed, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday during a meeting with Syria’s foreign minister, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) website said in a report.

“Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad… assured that the United States and the Zionist regime of Israel will soon come to the end of their lives,” the Iranian president was quoted as saying.

Well, Joe Biden, co-author of today’s Senate resolution, thinks that we can talk with this guy. Sure Joe, let’s all sit around the nuclear campfire and sing Cum-ba-ya. At least we can all get a nice tan — won’t last long though . . . (db)

Technorati Tags: State of the Union Speech, President Bush, Senate Resolution, Iraq War

Oh boy! Today we got ourselves a two-fer Head Up The Ol’ Wazzoo Award.

First one goes to New York Democrat Representative Charlie Rangel for his statement on FoxNews Sunday disparaging those that have volunteered for our military services. Video and this quote over at Hot Air:

I want to make it abundantly clear: if there’s anyone who believes that these youngsters want to fight, as the Pentagon and some generals have said, you can just forget about it. No young, bright individual wants to fight just because of a bonus and just because of educational benefits. And most all of them come from communities of very, very high unemployment. If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq.

Kinda puts a big exclamation point on the Dems’ feelings about our all-volunteer military, and goes to show that Kerry’s remarks a week before the election were no mere slip of the tongue — instead, it’s a core believe of those on the Left.

Award #2 goes to Andrew Sullivan, whose blog The Daily Dish is rapidly becoming an anti-Mitt Romney smear journal — apparently because of Romney’s strong support for marriage staying a union between a man and a woman. Sullivan seems intent upon dredging up Evangelical distrust of Mormons and nothing is beneath him in regards to that.

Ya don’t get two like these everyday — hope you guys enjoy the aroma up there . . . (db)

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Are you sure we haven’t been teleported back to 1968? From CBS/AP:

Two peace activists have planned a massive anti-war demonstration for the first day of winter.

But they don’t want you marching in the streets. They’d much rather you just stay home.

The Global Orgasm for Peace was conceived by Donna Sheehan, 76, and Paul Reffell, 55, whose immodest goal is for everyone in the world to have an orgasm Dec. 22 while focusing on world peace.

“The orgasm gives out an incredible feeling of peace during it and after it,” Reffell said Sunday. “Your mind is like a blank. It’s like a meditative state. And mass meditations have been shown to make a change.”

From San Francisco — what a shock . . . NOT!

All I can say is, “If only it could be that simple.” (db)

Technorati Tags: Donna Sheehan, Paul Reffell, Global Orgasm for Peace

Cross-posted at Junk Yard Blog . . .

A meme that I continue to come back to here at “Okie” is how much the generation that came of age in the ’60s and ’70s has hurt our society — with their narcissism, their abdication of responsibility to the defense of their country, their buying wholesale into a derisive attitude toward traditional religious faiths combined with an almost total embrace of multiculturalism over that of their own American culture.

The Congressional elections of last week have at long last given control over to the Democrats, except that this time it’s the Democrats of Nancy Pelosi, she being the representative of the Haight Ashbury “progressives” that form the foundation of the “nutroots” faction of the Democratic base. Given, our side lost this one amid unforgivable scandals, failure to clean house and outrageous in-your-face pork — ie Republicans acting far too much like Democrats. But that still doesn’t mean that we as a society won’t be threatened by the Woodstock Kids being in kontrol.

The Anchoress is often on the same page with this issue, and today is no exception.

A few days ago I wrote that Democrats never seem to know what time it is. They seem a little like Fitzgerald’s Gatsbians who “beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” Here we are in the 21st century – presumably time has moved forward, and yet with the ascendancy of the Democrats, we are immediately treated to the presence of George McGovern and the withdrawal mentality of Haight-Ashbury people who never wanted to commit to anything beyond keeping up with a trend and finding that elusive “self-fulfillment.”

Don’t miss her riffs on the Left’s undying love for killing the unborn, euthanasia as the newest form of community service and “The Holiness of Be-ing.” And then she links to this heavy-duty post by Elizabeth Powers. Here is an excerpt:

Though the liberalism that emerged from the sixties is usually interpreted as a triumph of idealism over the moral slumber of the 1950s, there is another way to regard that idealism. In truth, the 1950s was a very good time, of which all of us living today are the fortunate beneficiaries. But we who first went to school in that decade have been particularly favored, unduly so. While our parents had experienced World War II and the Depression, we grew up with path-breaking dermatological and dental care. When the “sixties” arrived (which for most of us was the 1970s), many of us were unwilling to make the same sacrifices our parents had made, either by going to war or becoming mothers. Sacrifice meant wasting all our good dermatological care, our college education, and indeed the good life for which they had raised us. We justified our unwillingness to follow in their footsteps by portraying the decade in which we had been raised as the breeding ground of repression, authoritarianism, xenophobia, moral and sexual hypocrisy, and untold (and therefore in need of telling and exposing) varieties of injustice. The fact is, we simply had it too good and wanted to keep things that way.

There is a noisy contingent still trapped in those times and whose opposition to the war in Iraq comes straight from the sixties playbook, but such overtly anti-American attitudes haven’t, in the current conflict, gained much traction. After all, the Boomers have grown up, chronologically at least, and the liberals among them don’t relish camping in tents in Crawford, Texas, or even marching in the streets. They have also benefited most from America, Inc. By now, they have made it through the institutions, the media, the law, and the universities. They have paid off their mortgages. They enjoy the advantages of the best health care system in the world. They are about to receive not only Social Security but also the fruits of their considerable investment in retirement plans. The terms of their opposition to war and to authority have changed—the president is an incompetent—but, as in their youth, they remain averse to sacrifice. Their priorities are now those of people who have had a good life and don’t want to jeopardize it.

Having grown up as the child of depression and WWII era parents, I know that Powers has this one nailed. I can’t really imagine what my father’s childhood actually was like, even though I have heard the stories, and at the age where I was self-absorbed in the making of really shitty art, my dad was sailing across the world’s oceans on the Mighty A, transporting healthy Marines to the Pacific theater and taking the wounded ones back home. Somehow his 20s were a damn site more consequential than mine.

But, he raised me, and for some reason he insisted that I be as pacifistic as possible. Maybe he had just seen far too much carnage of war, and didn’t want to see his son ever have to experience that. Maybe he thought that he and mom were raising kids that were going to build a better world. He fell into the dementia of Alzheimers before he could see the transformation that his son would make toward a conservative mindset and full support for the military. It took a long time to throw off the mental baggage of our culture’s love of the ’60s/’70s rebels and malcontents, but it was worth the effort.

We are living in a time of increasing danger, much like that of our parents in the 1930s. There are the appeasers, the cowards, the self-absorbed — and then there are those that are out there, risking all that they are and all that they might ever be, trying to help keep us safe. Somehow we must survive the next two years and work with increased zeal to put the adults back in control of Congress, even if they are a few decades younger than those youths-of-yesteryear that will sit in the catbird seats of power this Jan. (db)