Video break - Bill Maher shreds pea-brains: tells 'Repub crackers' to get off of Obama's ass

Hat tip to PoliticusUSA for this one -- the May 6 ep of Bill Maher's New Rules includes an epic rant against the tin-foil hat-wearing, birther, defense-flaccid wingnuts. Includes a snippet of transcript:

"Now that it's become clear that the Republicans, the fiscally conservative strong on defense party are neither fiscally conservative nor strong on defense, they have to tell us what exactly it is they're good at. It's not defense. 9/11 happened on your watch, and you retaliated by invading the wrong country, and you lost a 10 year game of hide and seek with Osama Bin Laden, and you're responsible for running up most of the debt, which more than anything makes us weak."

"You're supposed to be the party with the killer instinct, but it was a Democrat who put a bomb in Gadhafi's bedroom, and bullet in Bin Laden's eye like Moe Green. Raising the question how many Muslims does a black guy have to kill in one weekend before crackers climb down off his ass? Let's look at some facts. Now for you Fox News viewers feel free to turn down the sound until the flashing facts light at the bottom of your screen disappears."

Maher had it right. Obama had an incredible week last week, but within 48 hours the right was back hard at work trying to delegitimize his accomplishments while at the same time taking credit for themselves. What is absolutely eating the Obama haters up inside right now is that he got Bin Laden. Since 9/11 Republicans have treated the issue of national security as their birthright, but Obama showed them what a real commitment to keeping America secure looks like.