Polarizing.

Every now and then I dip my toes for a few minutes into the fetid waters of Morning Joe, just to see what Former Congressman Dead Girl In Office has his knickers in a twist about that day. Yesterday he, like the other GOP shills in cable news, was all up in arms about Joe Biden daring to defend the current administration against the attacks of Dick Cheney -- conveniently forgetting that it is simply Bad Form for a former President or Vice President to criticize the current one -- at least for a while. Even George W. Bush, not a man with whom one ordinarily associates the word "decency", had the decency to not take the bait when asked. But Dick Cheney lives in his own little underworld, where he is both king and deity and is subject to no man's laws, nor anyone's idea of being a civilized human being.

But in the world of Joe Scarborough, Barack Obama and Joe Biden are supposed to be like that nice man John Kerry, who "took the high road" when people like -- yes, you guessed -- Joe Scarborough -- were pummelling him into a loss in 2004. In Scar's world, the natural order of things is for Republicans to attack and Democrats to be good little boys and girls and give them their lunch money.

Yesterday Former Congressman Dead Girl In Office decided that the fact that wingnuts are frothing at the mouth about an Obama gun ban that the President has never even mentioned, let alone advocated and about socialist re-education camps that the President has never even mentioned, let alone advocated, and about FEMA internment camps that were built by KBR at the behest of George W. Bush, not Barack Obama, combined with a Pew Research poll showing a huge split in support between wingnuts and, say, the rest of the country, means that Obama is the most polarizing president in history -- and implying that this is somehow Obama's fault.

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I'd like to hear Scarborough explain why, when it was George W. Bush who contracted with FEMA for camps, and swept up everyone's telephone conversations and internet activity into that room in San Francisco, and put nuns and Quakers on no-fly lists for advocacy against the Iraq War, and had Secret Service visiting college kids who had posters critical of him in their dorm rooms, the black helicopter crowd didn't care, but let a Democrat -- a BLACK Democrat, no less -- get elected, and all of a sudden we are headed towards a socialist communist fascist homosexual feminazi welfare state where only Negroes (sic) will be allowed to have guns.

Scarborough isn't out there like Glenn Back advocating that someone take a shot at the President. No, Glenn Beck isn't either -- at least not in so many words. But it's clear that "We surround them" doesn't mean a Maypole dance.