I love this post so hard. I have been getting increasingly depressed at, well, everything lately. I stupidly listen to a little right-wing radio from time to time just to see what they're saying, and it's downright DISGUSTING. Absolute lies that are easily disproven, but caller after caller expresses sycophantic agreement with every word out of the host's mouth. I'm no Obama fan, but when I listen to the criticism of him from the Tea Party people it's just so obviously racist, especially compared with criticism from the left and the middle-- all the birther/Barack HUSSEIN Obama/socialist/communist/nazi stuff isn't substantive criticism at all, and the complaints that the expansion of federal government will somehow result in dismantling federal programs would be ridiculous if it weren't so scary that so many people believe it.

I'm tired of the "these colors don't run" crowd. I'm tired of people who want to cut nonexistent entitlement programs that they think others are getting, but God help you if you cut their programs.

Anyhow, I'll stop turning a comment of agreement into a teal deer :)