Settle the hell down idiots, settle the hell down, or how many mouthpieces for the right-wing actually served a day in the US military?

Occasionally, just because I love to torture myself, I listen in to right-wing radio. Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin and the like. It always helps to know what these people are saying, because what they say inevitably drives the actions and rhetoric of Republican political leaders.

So today they're all worked up into a frothy lather over two things, the first being that Obama's new budget is "gutting" the US military. Here's the truth...the amount of money we're set to spend on the military will increase by 4% in the Obama budget, but that's down from the 15% annually it had been growing under the previous administration, thus, in their warped minds, the military is being gutted and America is now free to be ass-raped by the terrorists. Mind you, this military spending program was spearheaded under Defense Secretary Robert Gates, a man who has spent his life working in the intelligence/defense fields, and a man who believes that he can streamline the nation's military, and frankly I have a lot of faith in his decision-making. He was also, as you may recall, appointed by President Bush! But the idiot mouthpieces for the right are already claiming that Obama and Gates are leaving us vulnerable because they hate America and now Iran and North Korea are going to nuke us with long-range missiles and we'll be helpless to do anything about it. As I write this, the guy sitting in for Mark Levin on his show while he celebrates the Jewish holiday, Tom something or other, is playing a clip from the movie Patton because Mark Levin loves that movie so much and that just shows how much of a patriot he is. Yeah.

Now, chew on this for a second. How many of the mouthpieces for the right do you think ever served a day in the US military?

Rush Limbaugh...No.

Bill O'Reilly...No.

Sean Hannity...No.

Mark Levin...No.

Glenn Beck...No.

Bill Bennett...No.

Dick Cheney...No.

Newt Gingrich...No.

Karl Rove...No.

Do I need to continue? Because I could go on and fucking on. Not a single one of these fucks served a single day in uniform for this country, but they're the ones who cloak themselves in patriotism at every opportunity, and these very people will be the ones ranting all over the place, as they have been already, that Obama and Gates are destroying the military. It's disgraceful. And frankly it pisses me the fuck off.

Now, here's the other thing that the wingnuts are going bananas over today...that Obama had the audacity to bow when he met the Saudi king. They are all up in arms that Obama showed this sort of deference to a "tyrant" who rules over the country "where all the 9/11 bombers came from.

What's comical about this is that they seem to have forgotten that President Bush used to hold hands with the guy, AND kiss him on the lips, just like those awful gays do...





For all we know, Bush might have jerked him off for some oil when the cameras weren't around. I'll take a president who bows to the fucker, thank you very much.