The screed on the op-ed page by Gene Lyons, Arkansas-Democrat Gazette, Thursday, November 12, 2009, ended with the words, Nobody familiar with 20th century history can be entirely confident that reason will prevail. In troubled times, even great nations can go stark, raving mad. A letter the same day on the same page ended with, Everyone who is angry because the Democrats are in power, deal with it. Though the two writers aren’t related, they appear to be cut from the same blind liberal socialist cloth just the same.

First, I’ll deal with the “brilliant” Gene Lyons. He launched a diatribe against George W. Bush for allowing the banking crisis to take place. The banking fiasco began in 1977 with the Community Reinvestment Act when Jimmy “Peanut Head Put on a Sweater” Carter pushed that as a solution for the less economically qualified to buy a house. Then Bill “I didn’t have sex with that woman” Clinton along with the fool Janet Reno, forced the banks to give loans (under threat of  force)  to people who couldn’t get a loan to buy a nickel candy bar. When George W. Bush attempted to stop that madness, the Democrat Congress refused to allow him to do so. Maxine Waters, Christopher Dodd and others defended the heads of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. That was tantamount to excusing a bank robber for robbing a bank by saying he couldn’t get a loan. Lyons always conveniently ignores the truth when it doesn’t fit this liberal frame of reference.

Lyons also worries about the damage that Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Bachmann, Glenn Beck, and Sarah Palin will do to the Republican Party. But his concern is phony. He knows that they are speaking out against the lunacy of the left and that they are reaching the people with the truth of the unconstitutional behavior of the nut job (a.k.a. Barack Hussein Obama) and the practitioner of liberal lunacy in Congress. Anytime the leftist Lyons and others worry that the opposition faces destruction you can take it to the bank they are lying when they express their concern.

Those citizens who attended the Tea Parties are Froot Loops according to the expert on lunacy because there were some who expressed their feelings in a way that didn’t meet Inspector Lyon’s approval. He thinks it is wrong for citizens to resist the take over of the nation by the communist leaning nut job that shreds the Constitution at every opportunity. And along that line, he thinks that the nut job receiving the endorsement of the American Medical Association and the AARP is just ducky. That is akin to giving an embezzler the Banker of the Year Award. It is no matter to Lyons that the health bill is unconstitutional and that the two aforementioned organizations are in the pocket of the nut job. If Lyons was any more brain dead, he would be declared terminally stupid.

Now to the letter which was in the Voices section. After blasting George W. Bush for his efforts to bring some sanity to the government process and to protect us from aggression by the jihadists of Islam, the writer attempts to defend the nut job by writing I have not lost any freedoms. Political blindness has no bounds. All of us are slowly losing freedoms through the actions of the nut job and his people. The writer will be singing a different tune if and when that tyrannical health bill is signed into law. Freedom will be no more.

Great nations do go stark raving mad and it occurred in November 2008. Now that an awakening is taking place the left doesn’t like it. To them sanity is insanity, left is right, unconstitutional laws are fine and on that score Lyons and the other writers are wrong; liberal insanity is thy n