Keeping an Eye on the Reactionaries

The local Reactionaries have been blogging furiously both about Jim Webb’s response to George Bush at the recent White House reception for new Members of Congress (Webb was typically blunt, Bush typically snippy), but also about the usual nonsense: how rude and profane the “liberal bloggers” are (as if conservative bloggers don’t regularly drop obscenity bombs on blogs like mine); how the liberals are waging war on Christmas (a sure sign that the Reactionaries feel their sense of privilege weakening, as more non-white, non-Christians exert their influence in public life; which demonstrates clearly what is behind the Reactionary’s bristling—racism and xenophobia). One topic they’ve been quiet on so far, though, is that even Donald Rumsfeld and their hero George Bush seem to have come to the conclusion that the Iraq policy is in a shambles and needs a major overhaul. Which is what a lot of us have been saying from the beginning, which is what Jim Webb campaigned for Senate on. Which is probably going to give the Reactionaries a fit as they try to explain their devotion to this failed policy.