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by Jonathan Harris

Yes he can! Yes he can!

The latest faux brouhaha from critics of President Obama came as the commander-in-chief and his wife flew to New York City this past weekend, went to dinner and saw a Broadway show. In what’s becoming a new tradition, many conservatives are pretending to be outraged at Obama’s actions, specifically the ones that are the most trivial to the American people. A few weeks ago, the Laura Ingraham’s and Sean Hannity’s of the world went positively apes**t because Obama prefers mustard on his cheeseburgers. Now they’re flipping their wigs over using taxpayer money to fly to New York City.

Chris Matthews continued his entertaining criticism of the GOP by referring to the critics as “pissants.” Watch his segment on the issue from Hardball:

Ah, thank you for your voice, Chris. I’m afraid the double-standard-police just aren’t around all that often to point out the utter foolishness of such complaints. These critics are the same people who salivated all over themselves when George W. Bush would take Air Force One to Crawford, Texas, to take a chainsaw to a few Acacias. I know Americans aren’t very proficient in geography, but I think these people at least know that New York is a bit closer to D.C. than Texas.

Oh well, as long as Obama is doing outrageous things like choosing his own condiments or enjoying socialist-unamerican-outsider theater productions, we’ll have these kind of complaints from the right. I just hope they remember to report on measly things like the economy, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, the Supreme Court, global climate change, human trafficking, AIDS, malaria and health care.

I think you might find something to be outraged about in there if you look hard enough.