More on Jan Brewja and her rudeness.

In short, conservatives these days are defined by people wrapping themselves in the flag, calling themselves patriots, who then do everything they can to destroy rights, oppress people, disrespect anyone who does not look like them and then call those acts “compassionate” or “American”.

They are neither.

Conservative opinion makers these days write books with Old Glory taking up the cover with titles and subject matter about how America is finished, done, ruined.

Hmm. In my lifetime it has been a mostly Republican administration at the helm (Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush the Elder and Lesser come to mind). Congress is full of GOP “leaders” like Gingrich and Agent Orange. The Supreme Court has been a conservative stronghold, giving elections to people without a worry about those pesky voters and letting corporations have a pulse and a blank check to take over the country.

Drunk with power, lacking respect or shame, these folks apparently *want* America to lose. Hell, they spent time cheering us lot getting an Olympic games. Who does that? And for why? How the hell is that patriotic?

But it is never their fault when bad things happen to our nation.

Bill Maher put it best the other night:

“And this is what I want to say to them, is like stuff like this strikes me, like saying that you’re threatened, Newt Gingrich calling Obama the ‘food stamp President’ because he took office in a recession when people were needing more food stamps. It’s like calling George Bush the ‘planes crashing into buildings President.'”

Conservatives always go on and on about how they are the patriots. They are “compassionate” and “Christian” and defenders of freedom and liberty. They “support the troops”, implying of course that YOU do not. They have been “taxed enough already”.

In this political season, we have seen these put as a lie. Mitt Romney pays less in taxes than even a tight slot machine gives in payouts. Angry conservative debate crowds have yelled for people without medical insurance to die, have heckled gay soldiers, cheered on Newt Gingrich as he calls minorities lazy welfare cheats, and so on.

This past week, Jan “Bruja” Brewer, governor of Aryzona, decided to push this a little further, wagging her finger in the President’s face like he is a schoolchild in need of a lecture.

Here’s how it actually looks:

Folks still say this isn’t about race. They are either deeply deluded or just moronic.

This is not about policy disagreements, this is disrepect. From Joe Wilson a couple years ago to this (already established) racist governor, this is about the president being black. We’ve had parties since right after the dawn of this nation and barring slave owning senators beating other lawmakers, we normally don’t get this level of hatred and outright uncivil behavior.

This isn’t a drunk guy in a bar pissed off. We’re talking governors, and senators and representatives in the national government. Arguably among the top 600 or so folks in our nation, behaving like angry Klucker mob members.

It needs to stop. There is NO hope for any of that mob to ever earn my vote again, but for the good of the nation – and for their own good as the face of this nation changes – it needs to stop.