From Sunday, first we have Jim Blanchard of Crestview, who in one paragraph asserts that Obama is a Marxist creating a fascist state. Dude, fascism and Marxism are not the same thing–and Obama is neither.

I’m also amused by the outrage Blanchard and other Republicans are expressing lately over the idea Washington is run by “corrupt politicians, power brokers and financiers”—are they under the impression this is something new? (Ditto the complaints that bills are so long and complicated nobody reads them–that’s hardly novel, either).

Then we have John Leuenberger of Mary Esther explaining that he has no objection to Obama taking “prudent steps to protect the nation” (i.e., warrantless wiretapping) but is very upset that the president is “expanding the intrusion of government into our lives” in the form of cap and trade and health care bills (apparently eavesdropping on people’s calls isn’t intrusive).

I’d always figured Republicans would do a 180 on illegal detention, warrantless wiretapping, torture and other presidential powers claimed under Bush, but apparently I was wrong: For a lot of them, it wasn’t politics to defend Bush’s powers, it was principle: They like having a president who can do the kind of things we used to condemn the USSR for.

If they’re not hypocrites, that’s actually scarier.

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