Angry and Confused...

Today, I found myself both perplexed and enraged.  Here's why:

• Allen West just can't understand why he's unemployed.  He was recently quoted by a reporter from his posh Florida home, wondering, "Why would anyone want to get rid of a guy who is...just an American success story?  I'm not some guy that came from a rich political family or anything like that, I'm just an everyday guy..."

Dear Allen, Your behavior in the halls of Congress says a lot about the content of your character.  Your constituents wanted a representative with the ability to reach across the aisle and work in a bipartisan manner.  What you gave them instead was a Congressman who was polarizing, partisan and flat-out disrespectful to anyone with a difference of opinion.  You called the Democratic Caucus Communists.  You called Representative Debbie Wasserman-Schultz "vile, unprofessional and despicable."  You may have been referring to her, but you described yourself to a "T."  That, sir, is why you are now unemployed, and it is my fervent hope that you stay that way.  There is no place for you in our government.

• Last week, Glenn Beck took it upon himself to seal a figurine depicting President Obama in a jar of his own urine, and had the unmitigated audacity to place it on e-bay as a charity auction.  It was promptly removed, as it violates e-bay's regulations prohibiting the auction of human waste.  He then continued the auction on his own website. 

Mr. Beck, You represent absolutely the worst that this country has to offer.  Your vile, reprehensible behavior is beyond the pale.  There were many, many times that I angrily, vehemently disagreed with George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.  Those two men are guilty of so very many human rights violations and war crimes I can scarcely describe my outrage.  Yet I had the dignity and patriotism to never, ever stoop so low as to embarrass my country by doing something so degrading, such as you did.  Respect for the individuals at the highest seats of power--no, never.  They did not earn my respect; but I did respect the offices they held despite their objectionable behavior.  Whether I voted for them or not, they were my President and Vice-President.  

How dare you, Glenn Beck?  Barack Obama is America's duly elected President.  I'd like to know what it is that he's done that is so offensive to you.  Was it when he extended the Bush-era tax cuts for your tax bracket?  Was it how he put a tourniquet on the bleeding of jobs initiated by W?  Maybe it's how under his leadership, the nation bailed out the auto industry, turned the stock market around and managed to enact sweeping health-care legislation?  Maybe he incurred your wrath by killing Osama-bin Laden when Bush gave up looking for him and said he "wasn't that concerned" about bringing him to justice?  Perhaps it was because he ended the war in Iraq, and set a time-line for ending the war in Afghanistan?  

Or maybe, it's because he's African-American and has ascended to the highest office in the nation by an overwhelming majority of the votes, both electoral and popular (something you could never dream of achieving).  I think that's the most likely reason, Glenn.  You're a racist and you are hiding behind a false sense of outrage.  Lacking a set of real issues to complain about, you make up false ones, such as President Obama is a Socialist and was born in Kenya.  Do you even know the definition of Socialism, Glenn?  To be quite honest, as a progressive and a liberal, I am a little disappointed myself because President Obama leans so far right.  Can you even find Kenya on a map?

After you've wasted your breath on your conspiracy theories that fall on deaf ears to all but the tin-foil-hat wearing crowd, in a desperate bid for attention, you throw a spectacular tantrum, screaming at the top of your lungs like a toddler denied having his own way and then, at the apex of your kicking and screaming, with tears streaming and snot flowing, red-faced and lips blue from holding your breath, in a last ditch effort to milk your moment for all it is worth--you piss all over your own toys.  

Your actions were an abuse of our First Amendment rights.  Just because you have the "right" to do something, does not mean that you should.  You've shown the entire nation what a reprehensible piece of unpatriotic trash you really are.  You should be ashamed. Honestly, what does that say about you, Beck, when your greatest achievement is the ability to direct a stream of urine into a mason jar?  Very classy.