"US Republicans – Barbarians at Washington's Gate", (excerpt), Robert Bridge, Russia Today, 19 June, 2009

After eight straight years of calling the shots in Washington, the US Republican party is waging a vicious verbal assault on the new Democratic administration. But will the Obama-bashing backfire?

It might seem to some that the Republican Party should be very grateful to Barack Obama. After all, with a snap of his magisterial fingers the American president, especially considering his meteoric popularity, could instigate the ugliest trials since the communist witch-hunts of the McCarthy era.

The US Justice Department could decide what crime to bring down on the heads of the Republicans with the help of a roulette wheel to make the whole process seem less subjective. Step right up and take a spin of the wheel! Round and round it goes, where it stops nobody knows… Iraq War, Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby, outed CIA agent Valerie Plame, fudged security reports to bolster the claim for war, failure to prevent the attacks on 9/11, torture, Guantanamo Bay , extraordinary rendition flights, secret detention facilities in Europe, loss of civil liberties in the homeland…

Instead of pushing themselves away from the political poker table and count their massive losses, the Republicans refuse to accept their defeat with grace.

Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh brought the soup to an immediate boil days after Obama was sworn into office.

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