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Why doesn’t Obama just publicly suck Joe Wilson’s dick and get it over with?

Obama’s imminent announcement of a freeze on non-defense, non-security spending emboldens the crazy teabagger narrative that we’re in trouble because the government takes care of people’s health and well-being, not because George Bush put us in hock so he could give away trillions to rich people. It’s exactly the narrative the Republicans want to push, and now they have the president of the opposition signing onto it—for which they will pillory him mercilessly as a Johnny-come-lately.

The last time our president-of-record addressed a joint session of Congress, South Carolina solon Joe Wilson of the unrepetent Confederacy famously broke protocol and called him a liar from the grandstands. If the current leaders in our increasingly polarized nation really believed their own rhetoric about respecting our country and its democratic systems, this would have been a watershed event.

Obama and his governing party could have saddled the Republican/teabagger crowd with the obvious fact that they’re bullies. We could still today be hearing about the difference between using violence and brute force to get one’s way and the Founding Fathers’ careful and ultimately successful strategy for making a revolution and not killing each other afterward.

We could have been hearing an alternative point of view since then, an indictment of the me-me-me party for its fanatical determination to permit nothing to occur that might remotely aid the populace and block the continued absorption of all national wealth by the plutocracy.

Instead, Obama shows every sign of determination to give away the store, the one we mobilized after eight nightmarish years of W-ism to deliver to him. We look to him for a distinct vision of the state, our current problems, the role of government, and what do we get? Recycled ideas from the people we threw out who are treated with deference while we’re chastized for making unreasonable demands.

Wilson should have been the poster boy for everything that’s wrong with the nasty, brutish opposition, and instead his shark attack was passed over as childish bad manners. So now there’s blood in the water—why not redouble the attack tonight?