It's a two-way street, with the participants taking turns being the producer and consumer.
When one end of the conversation overshoots the halfway point, controlling the definitions, admitted facts, scope, and conclusions, it's no longer a discussion. It's not even the Monty Python "Argument Clinic" sketch. It's not even tyranny.
It's a colossal bore.
As both an honest man, and a student history and current events, I do flatter myself that I'm tolerant, can take a joke, and don't get upset quickly. I'm not even angry now.
But, given a 24-hour day as a hard limit for Presidents and peasants, one's good nature accepts a finite amount of abuse.

I stand accused, apparently, of being an irredeemable partistan hack.
All other arguments having failed, that old variation on Romans, "All have sinned, and come short of the glory of Reagan" appears to be the concluding stance.
1. Having failed in times past to say "enough"* critical things about the GOP, and,
2. Being completely incapable of:
a. learning, and
b. repentence, and
3. Furthermore being robotically bound to hardwired, personal dislike of other beings based upon:
a. party, and
b. pigment,
4. I must therefore accept my assignment to a 'GOP hack' plantation where I uncritically parrot certain talking points for eternity, or at least until Al Gore sells the internet to some Middle Eastern cable channel.

All I can say, damn_registrars, is that I hope somebody else finds your arguments as monomaniacally amusing as I do.
--
*And let's not kid ourselves, It's Never Enough.

#ToMyFutureKids Don't H8 ideas for reasons of age. Truth is immortal, while a lie will die like the fly by a Presidential eye.

http://www.nextgeneration.tv/?cmd=mpg&mpid=538

http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/162209/

http://interviews.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3400019&cid=42657377

In response to my AC, my riffs on academia are the result of a couple years of first-hand experience at a major university, where I started a PhD program a decade back.
I had the luxury of bailing out at $30k of debt, and refinancing it back into the house a couple years later.

As political discussion lengthens, the probability of a Boooshhh! invocation => 1
http://theothermccain.com/2013/01/12/smittys-corollary-to-godwins-law/

Sort of a 'heh': http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3356465&cid=42549427

I also thought of myself, of the way I was when I was a leftist. Yes, I drove a Porsche then (a used one). And had a house in the Hollywood Hills. And ate at gourmet restaurants. And there were plenty like me. I was part of a class. I felt safe and protected for many years, though finally I just left it. I couldnâ(TM)t stand the hypocrisy anymore. Or maybe I just lost the ability to convince myself of my own altruism.

Carney at the Examiner:

The "fiscal cliff" legislation passed this week included $76 billion in special-interest tax credits for the likes of General Electric, Hollywood and even Captain Morgan. But these subsidies weren't the fruit of eleventh-hour lobbying conducted on the cliff's edge -- they were crafted back in August in a Senate committee, and they sat dormant until the White House reportedly insisted on them this week.

Did I say Republicans? Well, they voted on it, to be sure, but read the whole soiled diaper and re-examine 'put' in the title.
Standing by for pro-forma denunciations about how
- all the evil is on the Right,
- the Examiner is a partisan source,
- Bush did it too, and there was insufficient resistance, so the Democrats get a pass,
- it's racism to question our Ruling Class overlords,
- this is just karma running over centuries of white male Christianist dogma, and
- Shut up!
from The Usual Suspects in 3...2...

Maybe Tina Brown was literarily spoofed by someone wanting her to appear the demented love child of Andrew Sullivan and Rachel Maddow:

The idea of losing Hillary has seemed especially unbearable at this political moment. Itâ(TM)s as if she has become, literally, the ship of state. She stands for maturity, tenacity, and self-discipline at a time when everyone else in Washington seems to be, in more senses than one, going off a cliffâ"a parade of bickering, blustering, small-balled hacks bollixing up the nationâ(TM)s business. Sheâ(TM)s a caring executive too, and that takes its own emotional toll. What a disgrace that John Bolton and his goaty Republican ilk accused Her Magnificence of inventing a concussion to get out of testifying at the Benghazi hearings. Bolton is not fit to wipe her floor with his mustache.

This blog must double down on its unwavering stance regarding the physical condition of this storied civil servant:

May Secretary of State Clinton receive better treatment than Ambassador Stevens, Smith, Woods or Doherty. #Benghazi

— Smitty (D-aft) (@smitty_one_each) December 31, 2012

via Kaus

http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3350403&cid=42440567

This really seems more like a Jeremiah Cornelius entry, but what the heck?
http://theothermccain.com/2012/12/30/tinfoil-hat-sec-state-injured-seal-killed-during-iran-incident/

Despite the mostly amusing back-n-forth on Benghazi with the fellas, I'd like to hold fire on further exchanges until there is some no-kidding news on the topic.
Again, it's fine to flex the rhetorical muscles, but I'm just not able to devote the necessary time to keep throwing the fertilizer back at everybody, when the arguments have all reached stable circular orbits.
You can accuse me as desired, but accept in advance that I'm not likely to reply on this topic again until there is something to talk about.
May the Almighty grant wisdom to all of our leaders, and help them articulate some sort of stable direction for society.

Cheers,
Chris