No, Mr. Bond -- I expect you to lie

By Capt. Fogg

Aboard Blue Moon, Port Salerno, FL.

The only creativity coming out of the Republican tribe these days seems to center around new and ever more precious ways to denounce Barack Obama. Still sweating from the effort it took to convince themselves that Obama Supporters see him as the second coming, they're mocking him for not being a messiah.

Take Senator Kit Bond (R-MO), for instance. Hoping you won't remember George Bush's pathetic swoons about looking into Vladimir Putin's eyes and seeing a soulmate, Bond told reporters yesterday that the president's trip to Moscow was a huge pile of shit because nothing was accomplished but an agreement to reduce the huge pile of nukes. Obama should, says Bond, have stopped the repression of the Russian media and commanded them to sanction North Korea if he were a president worth his salt. Obama has simply failed, in one magical moment, to make Russia an obedient, American client-state -- as John McCain and Sarah Palin surely would have done with a great flourish of bluster, threat, and bravado -- and at a lower cost. George Bush? Who?

(Cross-posted from Human Voices.)