I’m uncharacteristically at a loss here. I simply don’t have the resources for the news aggregating tasks it takes to sum up the outrageous offensive against American citizens we’re seeing from our government.

It’s not a perfect storm. It’s a perfect hurricane. Terrible revelations in every aspect of this misbegotten administration’s performance in office. Counterpointed by childish presidential tantrums in which the self-proclaimed post-partisan American messiah prefers to call his opposition hostage takers and extortionists rather than take the step of negotiating with them for the first time EVER in his five years in office.

Help me out here, guys. Stories about despotic shutdown theatrics, state by state ObamaCare screw-ups, continued foreign policy disasters, ongoing leaks and discoveries of felonious behavior by the IRS and NSA, and media complicity in the burying of all these are to be found at Hotair.

Stories about the near instantaneous conversion of the federal bureaucracy into a metastasizing Patrician-proletarian tyranny, as well as specification of the extent of the ObamaCare lies, incompetencies, and threats to constitutional liberties are best found at National Review Online. Look for pieces by Charles Cook, David French, Mark Steyn, and David Auerbach.

An excellent hitting on all the media bases is located at the Rush Limbaugh Show, today’s edition. I have an ipad app called “Listen Now” which should enable you to hear today’s show even after it’s done. Do it, even if you never listen to him. His tone is more equable than mine would be. Which, to be sure, isn’t saying much.

But he led with the most buried lede in recent MSM history, Obama’s 37 percent approval rating. Which he contrasted with an extended clip from CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on the night he announced GWB’s 36 percent approval rating. Wolf could barely contain his joy that evening, and the number was repeated half a dozen times. Exuberantly. Obama’s similar rating was buried halfway through an AP story whose headline announced that polls show people blame Republicans for the shutdown. Rush went on from there… And he said much I would say too. But he has his stack of stuff, and I have only my quiet Internet tinkering of a morning. Sometimes you have to defer to the bigger stack of stuff.

Dig with your own shovels and share. Here’s the one link I will offer of my own, from Breitbart’s Conversation site.

I was at a dinner recently where I happened to be seated at a table with new acquaintances of the liberal political persuasion.

We went around the table introducing ourselves. As I said that I work for a “conservative website,” a man at the far end of the table made his displeasure known by booing. He wasn’t kidding.

These were professional, accomplished, senior members of the community. They had never met a conservative before. Their first reaction was hostile. No one chided the man who booed, or apologized on his behalf for his rudeness, or laughed to break the tension.

Instead, I began to face questions: you really support what Boehner is doing?

Yes, I replied. He’s doing the right thing by standing up to the president. Gasps.

Look, I said, trying to be diplomatic. I understand how Democrats see this. Democrats believe that these extremists have taken over the Republican Party, and they don’t like government much anyway, and–
“They can’t stand the fact that a black man is in the White House!” someone interjected.

That’s not true, I said. Oh, yes it is, they said.

Ok. Why don’t we put that thought in a box for now–we’ll come back to it, I offered. Let me finish. From a conservative Republican perspective, it’s necessary to stand up to Obama because he is doing things that no president should do, not just in policy terms but also in violating the constitutional separation of powers.

That stunned them. “What? You really believe that? Like what?”
Delaying the employer mandate under Obamacare, for instance, without statutory authority.

Oh, you Republicans and your business friends should like that.
No, actually, I don’t. And it’s just the start…

The conversation was cut short by the sound of a glass tapping at the next table, for a toast. We never did come back to the question of whether I was a racist who could not stand a black man as president.

I doubt these folks thought of themselves as mean people. But I am certain many other conservatives have had similar interactions among liberals in elite, polite society. Worldly as they are, they have no clue.

Uh, why does he care to remain civil with them? Scorch their asses. They’re braindead as zombies. But that’s the great conservative delusion, isn’t it? Try to appear reasonable and dead things that subsist by eating living things might somehow stop reaching for your working brain with carnivorous intent. Oh well. I’ve said my say on this point multiple times. No one listens. It’s better to get along with your enemy than pursue him into the wasteland he’s chosen for a home and cut off his last retreat. I’ll stop now.

Never mind.

This is a president, a government, a nation out of control. There is so much horrifying stuff going on that it’s almost impossible to hold it in mind at the same time. Why, perhaps, the MSM has shut down so completely. There are ironies within ironies, insults wrapped inside insults, corruptions nested like Russian dolls, and the only thread through the maze is the base realization that absolutely everything the president, the White House, and his factotums and party say is a deliberate lie.

Bald, outrageous, shameless, contemptible, cynical, viciously minded, and ultimately stupid lies. What they’re counting on is that we’re too stupid and gullible to keep track or hold them accountable.

I fear we are.

On the other hand, Raebert sat with me while I listened to Limbaugh this afternoon. He said not a thing.

Okay. Sometimes he’s just a Great White with hair.