Ear-Splitting Self-Righteousness

Looks like Jeronimo Saldana's friends had themselves a good ol' time:

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's return to his alma mater turned into an exercise in perseverance when virtually his every word was accompanied by catcalls, howls and piercing whistles from the crowd.

Schwarzenegger's face appeared to redden during his 15-minute commencement address Tuesday to 600 graduates at Santa Monica College, but he ignored the shouting as he recalled his days as a student and, later, his work as a bodybuilder and actor. ... Inside the stadium, the drone from hundreds of rowdy protesters threatened to drown out the governor's voice at times. Many in the crowd erupted in boos when a police officer pulled down a banner criticizing the estimated $45 million cost of the November 8th special election that Schwarzenegger proposed Monday.

The governor is backing three ballot initiatives that call for imposing a cap on state spending, stripping lawmakers of the power to draw their own districts and increasing the time it takes teachers to gain tenure.

Ah, yes, the only thing that Democrats consider a waste of government funds (at the state level) is democracy itself when their own sacred cows are tossed up for grabs. What did I say in my last post about one-way streets?

Cap'n Ed makes some surface observations, but fails to tap in for a birdie:

It seems rather churlish to stage a political protest at a non-political event like this college graduation. It hijacks an evening that should have focused on the graduates, instead of some selfish and self-serving political opponents of the Governator. But if they wanted to protest, they should have observed enough decorum to allow Arnold to at least be heard by the audience in attendance. Actions like this point out a political narcissism and absolutism that reveal nothing but the immaturity of Arnold's opposition.

The "political narcissism and absolutism" quip comes close to the cup. But it isn't immaturity that characterizes the Left these days, but quasi-religious zealotry. For them this commencement ceremony wasn't a "non-political event" because, to them, there's no such thing as a non-political anything. Everything is fair game for political manipulation, grandstanding, and intimidation as far as they're concerned, because in their minds, politics is religion. Why else are atheocrats so intolerent of adherents of the real thing? And, by vicarious extension, a "heretic" like Ah-nuld?

It reflects contemporary liberalism's Bush-era Samson Complex: since they couldn't force the Governator to forego his speech, they did their best to shout it down instead. Just as, in the bigger picture, if we, the people, won't elect Democrats to national power, they will do their best to make the country ungovernable. To hold America hostage, as it were, until we turn the nation back over to them.

Seen in a "birds of a feather" context, the Santa Monica College boorfest and libs' strenuously strident efforts on behalf of the terrorists start making a whole lot more sense.