The party of whiners

"What we're seeing from the right, then, is criticism for the sake of criticism. The discourse has reached the point at which Republicans and their media figures have to be whining about something at all times. It's not as if the president woke up Friday morning and thought, 'Fire up Air Force One; I'm in the mood to see Rio.' Obama is stopping in Chile, Brazil, and El Salvador as part of a broader economic agenda, so the right feels the need to pretend to be outraged. It's quite sad." -- Steve Benen, The Washington Monthly, "It's Not A Vacation"