Remember, not so long ago, when dissent was “patriotic”? Remember when Democrats who favored immediate withdrawal from Iraq – who hoped the U.S. would lose the war because it would make President Bush look bad – would throw tantrums if anybody called them on it, because, they said, this was an unfair questioning of their patriotism.
What a difference three weeks makes. Now, with Democratic President Barack Obama in office, long-time Democratic strategist Robert Shrum is accusing Republicans who won’t roll over and blindly vote for Obama’s $840 billion “stimulus” package of being “Taliban Republicans.”
So, now that power has changed hands, it is not only just fine to question the patriotism of administration critics, it is fine to label them as sworn enemies of the United States, bent on inflicting mass casualties through terrorist acts.
Apparently, the rules of political debate are whatever Democrats say they are.
