Gregory D.

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April 24, 2009

Democrats Are Managing to Offend Everyone

It seems that since the inauguration, liberals have been drunk with power, but they are now sobering up to a massive hangover. In less than 90 days, they have managed to offend most Americans, including the ones who put them in power.

President Obama’s first official act was to order Guantanamo Bay prison closed within a year and to give consideration to releasing some detainees in the U.S. instead of sending them to their homeland where they belong. A backlash immediately followed from every community where these detainees might be tried or resettled. Almost the entire nation was offended.

Then, Attorney General Eric Holder said white people were cowards regarding race relations, offending many whites.

President Obama began nominating tax evaders for cabinet level positions, offending all American taxpayers. He then signed a $787 billion pork-laden stimulus bill that nobody read, and that grants tax refunds for people who do not pay taxes.

Before you could say “Tea Party,” large numbers of Republicans, Democrats and independents, fearing they will soon have their taxes raised, gathered all over the country to protest the government’s out-of-control spending. Nancy Pelosi quipped that the protestors were disgruntled wealthy white Republican racists who wanted to keep tax breaks for the “rich.” That comment offended rich, white Republicans.

Actress Janeane Garofalo added: “This is about hating a black man in the White house. This is racism straight up. That is nothing but a bunch of tea-bagging rednecks.” Her comments, of course, offended disgruntled redneck racists. Everyone else was cool with it.

The president then approved U.S. taxpayer-funded foreign abortions. Catholics were offended. He then ordered DEA to not enforce federal marijuana laws in those states that have approved it as “medicine,” potentially increasing the number of drug abusers in those states, which offended the law enforcement and non-doper communities.

Then Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano released an analysis that veterans, those who oppose abortion and illegal immigration or didn’t vote for Obama, and other people assumed to be “right-wing extremists,” are potential recruits for domestic terror organizations. Veteran’s organizations, other patriots and more law-abiding citizens were immediately offended.

President Obama then went to Europe and apologized for America’s arrogance (in France, no less) and said that America is not a country founded on religion, further offending religious Americans.

President Obama’s handlers then requested a religious symbol of Jesus be covered during a presidential speech at Georgetown University, offending even more Catholics.

President Obama then released top secret memos from the Bush Administration about approved enhanced interrogation techniques, despite objections from some Democrats who saw no useful purpose in it. The entire intelligence community was offended.

I don’t think the DHS report and the systematic attacks on religion are coincidental. President Obama has picked like-minded cabinet secretaries like Janet Napolitano and Eric Holder to put his words into action. Words like, “You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And it’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” This sounds chillingly similar to the recent DHS report.

It’s obvious that President Obama and his liberal friends are trying to make up for lost time and want to make as many changes as soon as possible before they are thrown out on their ear, regardless of the ramifications to the country or who gets offended.

Many liberals are non-religious, dope smoking, illegal immigrant supporting, non-achieving tax evaders who are not easily offended. They want to raise achievers’ taxes while throwing insults at them. They think that achievers will quietly work for free as the government takes every penny they earn to pay for new, massive, out-of-control spending.   

The backlash has just begun and should come to a head just in time for the mid-term elections. For liberty’s sake, let’s hope so.

Gregory D. Lee is a nationally syndicated columnist for North Star Writers Group. He can be reached through his web site: www.gregorydlee.com.

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