This Week In Let’s Blame President Obama and Other Right Wing Nonsense

Former Vice President Dick Cheney wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal in which he stated “Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many". I like so many others naturally assumed he was speaking of former President George W. Bush…silly me, he meant President Obama. So in ole Dickie’s opinion, President Obama is worse than the entire cast of presidents who served while slavery was an established institution which allowed for an entire race of people to be systematically raped, tortured and murdered on a daily basis. Worse than those who reigned while countless Native American populations were slaughtered and their land was stolen. Worse than those who allowed Jim Crow legislation and institutional racism to thrive uncontested for years in the south. Really? In the Wall Street Journal article, Mr. Cheney was attempting to blame the President for the recent conflicts arising in Iraq. This from the man who along with President Bush lied to the American public about imaginary Weapons of Mass Destruction in order to wage against Iraq in the first place. In the guise of liberating the Iraqi people, billions of dollars were saved for oil service companies like Halliburton. You remember Halliburton the company where Cheney is the former CEO. This is the same man who along with President Dubya is responsible for the loss of more than 4,500 American lives and over 100,000 Iraqis. I gotta say that statement takes a pair of massively huge cojones Mr. Cheney. He along with many conservative critics believe President Obama should have held American troops in Iraq indefinitely and feel his weak decision to remove troops is the cause for the current unrest. However, these critics leave out the fact that the President of Iraq and the Iraqi Parliament voted to have American troops leave and that President Bush signed a binding agreement to do so before leaving office in 2008. Yep, signed off before President Obama even entered office. Of course Senator Grumpy Pants chimed in insisting that the solution to the current problem is to simply bomb Iraq.

The alleged mastermind said to be responsible for the Benghazi attack was captured this week and of course Republican politicians and pundits claimed it must be some type of diversion by the Obama administration like perhaps to draw attention to Hilary Clinton’s 2016 presidential bid…really? These idiots bombarded the media with ridiculous questions and assertions. Why was it a secret? Why was it a raid? Where was Obama? Where was Hilary? Where’s Waldo and where was he when Kennedy was shot? Is there anything here that can be used to repeal Obamacare or commence impeachment proceedings? Sheesh. The only way the President could get love form these people would be to invade the wrong country, turn record surpluses into deficits and use the banking industry to wreck the national economy…oh wait.

Apparently Rick Perry the governor of Texas feels alcoholics should not be allowed to marry.  Well actually he likened homosexuality to alcohol addiction and based on his views on marriage equality one would conclude…well you get the idea. Seems the ole Governor was defending Texas legislation which would allow Reparative Therapy for children. You know the so-called therapy where they attempt to change the sexual orientation of homosexuals with aversion techniques such as electric shock treatments to the genitals and nausea inducing drugs dispensed while showing the patient homoerotic stimuli. The same Reparative Therapy deemed harmful to individuals both physically and mentally and denounced by virtually every mainstream medical and scientific organization in the country. The Reparative Therapy based on age old assumptions that homosexuality is a mental disorder that can and should be cured. Assumptions that reinforce anti-gay bigotry based on the theory that being homosexual is somehow harmful or wrong and a person can and should change his/her sexual orientation. You know, nonsense. I’d like to see Governor Dumb Ass hooked up to electric shock treatment to see if he can change his sexual orientation. Or at the very least maybe it can be used to cure that drinking problem because being drunk is the only excuse for his ridiculous statements.