Stick a pin in it!

[FredStembottom]

I've been thinking about President Obama's question and answer period before the Republican Retreat. It was a completely novel experience. Unexpected. It knocked me off balance, It knocked the entire Republican smear machine off balance, too. I am left with conflicting emotions - the darker parts I don't care to go into at this time.

However, I think all of us here at DU felt immense relief that some Democrat, somewhere was finally calling out the massive, institutionalized LYING that the GOP has felt free to pursue for a decade now.

Thank you, Mr. President. Why the lies were allowed to flow unimpeded for so long... was completely baffling to me. So much of the division here at DU and among party loyalists has never been the result of "Ultra-leftists" or "Ideological Purists" throwing bombs as it was individual Democrats confused to the point of sheer, screaming rage by the complete and utter refusal of our party to simply fight back - no! simply to even mention the egregious lies upon which the Republican party's base is increasingly built. Bald-faced, laughable lies as fragile as balloons that only floated because no Democrat in D.C. would simply stick a pin in them!

Why not!?!? Theories abound but I guess we'll never know for sure.

For popping a few of these huge Republican dis-information blimps, we owe our President immense thanks.

Now, Democrats everywhere: Lather, rinse, repeat.