Conservatives Rooting Against America

There's something tremendously bizarre afoot within the Republican Party these days. Sure, they don't like those dirty hippies that call themselves Democrats. And of course they don't like the Kenyan Barack Hussein Obama whose diet consists entirely of the freedoms of good Americans.

But it now seems that their hatred of hippies and Kenyans are surpassing their love for this country. Some seem so eager to see bad things happen to Obama that they don't seem to mind if it's also bad for this nation. Rush Limbaugh, on his broadcast today, said as much:

For those of you on the other side of the aisle listening in who are upset that I sound gleeful -- I am. I don't deny it. I'm happy. Anything that gets in the way of Barack Obama accomplishing his domestic agenda is fine with me.

Limbaugh's hardly alone in his celebrating the loss of billions of dollars...The right wing nutosphere has exploded in celebratory posts, but some have been watered down since their original posting, as Think Progress reports. From the conservative The Weekly Standard blog:

After initially writing that as the news was reported that Chicago was eliminated, "Cheer erupt at WEEKLY STANDARD world headquarters," the blog has since been scrubbed. Media Matters highlights other celebrations at America's failure including Lou "The immigrants are coming!" Dobbs, and of course the always nutty Glenn Beck.

While many conservatives are rejoicing that America was defeated on the international stage because they are more concerned with partisanship than America's interests, some Republicans are making an effort to directly undermine our foreign policy.

Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) is traveling to Honduras, according to his staffers, to "encourage Mr. Micheletti and his supporters to resist" pressure from the American government to end the military coup and return control of the country to the democratically elected president.

Steve Clemons of The Washington Note explains it quite well:

In other words, Jim DeMint is acting on behalf of, in cahoots with, and against the foreign policy of the United States of America in encouraging post-coup Honduran government officials defy the United States. He is encouraging a political leadership which has no legitimacy and which not recognized by other democracies in the region -- while the ousted President makes cell phone UN General Assembly statements from a couch-bed in the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa.