Seeing Double

One of the most interesting things about the way Republicans are trying to shift the public discourse is becoming a new double standard:

1. It is wrtong and unpatriotic to criticize Bush, the administration, generals, or other people who agree with the party line.

2. It is okay to mock, vilify, attack and smear injured children, mothers who have lost a child in Iraq, poor people, and soldiers who question or criticize the party line.

In other words, it is fine to slam those without power, but it is wrong to slam those with power. This is an outrageous perversion of the spirit of America, which talks in the Declaration of Independence (a document the Bushies show no more knowledge or respect for than they do the Constitution) of our "duty" to resist the abuse of power---and abuse of power is what the current administration is all about. AND it is absolutely counter to the way the Republican Party acted when they were running up against the Clinton Administration.

I'm certainly not the only one to notice this, and it seems so utterly obvious, but when do they get called out by the MSM on it?