"I'M INSANE WITH RAGE AND GRIEF"

At the beginning of these screeds, I do need to define some terms. I've cleared the air about hanging traitors, and now we need to define Barking Moonbats , theBMs.

These people are real. Impossible as it is to imagine, not only are they real, but thousands read their blogs, and even the Mainstream Democrats write along side them. The Washington Post this week, profiled one woman, and these exerpts say it all. Read the whole thing.

In the angry life of Maryscott O'Connor, the rage begins as soon as she opens her eyes and realizes that her president is still George W. Bush. The sun has yet to rise and her family is asleep, but no matter; as soon as the realization kicks in, O'Connor, 37, is out of bed and heading toward her computer.

Out there, awaiting her building fury: the Angry Left, where O'Connor's reputation is as one of the angriest of all. "One long, sustained scream" is how she describes the writing she does for various Web logs, as she wonders what she should scream about this day.

She smokes a cigarette. Should it be about Bush, whom she considers "malevolent," a "sociopath" and "the Antichrist"? She smokes another cigarette. Should it be about Vice President Cheney, whom she thinks of as "Satan," or about Karl Rove, "the devil"? Should it be about the "evil" Republican Party, or the "weaselly, capitulating, self-aggrandizing, self-serving" Democrats, or the Catholic Church, for which she says "I have a special place in my heart . . . a burning, sizzling, putrescent place where the guilty suffer the tortures of the damned"?

"I was not like this before," she says. "I was riddled with empathy for everyone suffering in the world. Classic bleeding-heart liberal."
Before: She signed petitions. She boycotted veal. She canvassed for Greenpeace. She donated to Planned Parenthood. She read the Nation, the New Yorker, the Utne Reader and Mother Jones. She agonized over low wages for overseas workers every time she bought a $40 leather purse.

Then George W. Bush was elected. Then came 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, the Patriot Act, secret prisons, domestic eavesdropping, the revamping of the Supreme Court, and the thought "It has come to the point where the worst people on Earth are running the Earth." And now, "I have become one of those people with all the bumper stickers on their car," she says. "I am this close to being one of those muttering people pushing a cart.

"I'm insane with rage and grief."

These people would be objects of pity were it not that the Mainstream of the Democrats are hardly distinguishable from them. Michael Moore would understand this woman. And Jimmy Carter would. Al Gore writes for The Daily Kos, where this woman started. Does anyone think Howard Dean would disagree with her characterization of The President of the United States, elected twice, by nearly sixty million voters?

If this is what the Democrat Party has become, imagine the future if they're returned to power.