On being slow off the mark

Last Friday, the Democratic National Committee’s Brad Woodhouse announces, via the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent.

The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with the terrorists — the Taliban and Hamas this morning — in criticizing the President for receiving the Nobel Peace prize. Republicans cheered when America failed to land the Olympics and now they are criticizing the President of the United States for receiving the Nobel Peace prize — an award he did not seek but that is nonetheless an honor in which every American can take great pride — unless of course you are the Republican Party. The 2009 version of the Republican Party has no boundaries, has no shame and has proved that they will put politics above patriotism at every turn. It’s no wonder only 20 percent of Americans admit to being Republicans anymore – it’s an embarrassing label to claim.

Four days later, Eugene “Ankles” Robinson of the Washington Post starts out his column with this:
Somebody explain this to me: The president of the United States wins the Nobel Peace Prize and Rush Limbaugh joins with the Taliban in bitterly denouncing the award? Glenn Beck has a conniption fit and demands that the president not accept what may be the world’s most prestigious honor? The Republican National Committee issues a statement sarcastically mocking our nation’s leader — elected, you will recall, by a healthy majority — as unworthy of such recognition?

Why, oh why, do conservatives hate America so?

It is not exactly a big discovery to spot Eugene Robinson being a DNC hack with his head so far up Obama’s ass you can only see his ankles. But jeez, you expect Washington Post hacks to do better than stenographers just copying their press releases. They are supposed to be hacks with a little style.