"You Republicans are the arsonists who burned down our national home."

Wow. Former evangelist Frank Schaeffer gives an entirely new meaning to the expression "born again":

You Republicans are the arsonists who burned down our national home. You combined the failed ideologies of the Religious Right, so-called free market deregulation and the Neoconservative love of war to light a fire that has consumed America. Now you have the nerve to criticize the "architect" America just hired -- President Obama -- to rebuild from the ashes. You do nothing constructive, just try to hinder the one person willing and able to fix the mess you created.

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How can anyone who loves our country support the Republicans now? Barry Goldwater, William F. Buckley and Ronald Reagan defined the modern conservatism that used to be what the Republican Party I belonged to was about. Today no actual conservative can be a Republican. Reagan would despise today's wholly negative Republican Party. And can you picture the gentlemanly and always polite Ronald Reagan, endorsing a radio hate-jock slob who crudely mocked a man with Parkinson's and who now says he wants an American president to fail?!

With people like Limbaugh as the loudmouth image of the Republican Party -- you need no enemies. But something far more serious has happened than an image problem: the Republican Party has become the party of obstruction at just the time when all Americans should be pulling together for the good of our country. Instead, Republicans are today's fifth column sabotaging American renewal.

It's really too bad that CNN is cancelling D.L. Hughley Breaks the News. Perhaps it's interviews like this:

...which interfere with the network's mission to siphon viewers away from Faux Noise while ignoring the longtime CNN viewers that are quietly changing the channel, which tipped the scales.

I'm not with Schaeffer in the notion that you have to support a president whether you voted for him or not -- at least not blindly. In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, even I reluctantly had to put faith in George W. Bush, not because I believed he was anything other than the idiot he was, but because we had no choice. But as we've seen, when a president fails, we all fail.