Modern Conservatism defined

Obama Describes The Modern Conservative Movement vis a vis the tire gauge nonsense posted below...

Now two points, one, they know they're lying about what my energy plan is, but the other thing is they're making fun of a step that every expert says would absolutely reduce our oil consumption by 3 to 4 percent. It’s like these guys take pride in being ignorant.

You know what? I know some of these troglodytes--I've actually burned my precious time bothering to argue with them. They do pride themselves on almost complete ignorance, historical ignorance, political ignorance, in many cases, simple ethical ignorance of the kind most second graders have mastered. Considering their erstwhile leaders: George Bush, Dick Cheney, John McCain...I imagine its the only way they can get through a day.

Imagine, for a moment, what the world would be like if they were actually reasonably up to speed on most the salient facts of any particular argument? We might have a working Democracy.

When people write about the failed experiment called America, I hope they start with the first celebrity President--Ronald Reagan. He of the trees cause pollutions ignorance, the amazingly stupid Mujihadeen as founding father's lie and finish with the bookend we have in Bush. He of the murderous wars of convenience, the disastrous tax cuts, the sickening torture and dementia offered up as foreign policy. Just for the record folks: so called liberals have been out of power for well over 8 years. Republicans and their conservative followers did this to America. No one but.