Saw it on Michelle Malkin first.

Atlas Shrugs unloaded a good rant on him.

Chris Satullo: A not-so-glorious Fourth

With pro-American guest commentator, The Rude Dog. Words of The Rude Dog in blue.

U.S. atrocities are unworthy of our heritage.

By Chris Satullo

Inquirer Columnist Communist

Put the fireworks in storage.

Or we will outlaw more of them.

Cancel the parade.

No leather clad, ball-gag-transvestite drag queens? No parade permit.

Tuck the soaring speeches in a drawer for another time.

I agree. Barack, shut up on the forth and just let The President speak.

This year, America doesn’t deserve to celebrate its birthday. This Fourth of July should be a day of quiet and atonement.

“I also believe, America is the greatest sin against God.” - Father Pfleger, Inquirer Chaplain and model Democrat.

For we have sinned.

God Damn America! - Jeremiah Wright,Lunatic Moonbat and model Democrat clergyman.

We have failed to pay attention. We’ve settled for lame excuses. We’ve spit on the memory of those who did that brave, brave thing in Philadelphia 232 years ago.

…a liberal confession? Nah. You could put a blank where “in Philadelphia 232 years ago” appears and apply this to liberals all the time. Let’s call it Mad Libs! Watch this:

We have failed to pay attention. We’ve settled for lame excuses. We’ve spit on the memory of those who did that brave, brave thing in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, the stock market, the 80’s, rejecting the U.N., defending Christmas, stopping the Fairness Doctrine and on and on…

Isn’t this fun? Try it on your site! Mad Libs…

The America those men founded should never torture a prisoner.

Waterboarding is not a torture, this article is. Hitchens volunteered for waterboarding. If he volunteers to suffer the fate of our captured soldiers, I’ll be impressed. It still won’t make waterboarding a torture.

The America they founded should never imprison people for years without charge or hearing.

You’re right. They would have killed them on the spot and people like you were tarred and feathered. Let’s bring those days back shall we?

The America they founded should never ship prisoners to foreign lands, knowing their new jailers might torture them.

Covered that.

Such abuses once were committed by the arrogant crowns of Europe, spawning rebellion.

Europe colonized everybody. We never did that. Also, Europe just tortured everyone themselves. It’s covered in the subject named History. Check it out sometime.

Today, our nation does such things in the name of our safety. Petrified, unwilling to take the risks that love of liberty demands, we close our eyes.

We close our eyes in Iraq, Afghanistan, Africa, against Iran, Libya, and North Korea. Man, we kick a lot of ass with our eyes closed.

We have done such things, on orders from the Oval Office. We have done them, without general outrage or shame.

Liberals are always ashamed to be Americans. Your Democrat Congress paid for all of the above, where’s the outrage at the DNC?

Abu Ghraib. Guantanamo. CIA secret prisons. “Rendition” of prisoners to foreign torture chambers.

Funny. Chicken cordon bleu & free Korans. So. Good.

It’s not enough that we had good reason to be scared.

After Democrats took over Congress, everything went to hell. Only the war is going well. Hmmm…

The men huddled long ago in Philadelphia had better reason. A British fleet floated off the Jersey coast, full of hands eager to hang them from the nearest lampposts.

Yet they pledged their lives and sacred honor - no idle vow - to defend the “inalienable rights” of men. Inalienable - what does that signify? It means rights that belong to each person, simply by virtue of being human. Rights that can never be taken away, no matter what evil a person might do or might intend.

Yeah! Gimmie my guns. Income only gets taxed once! No property tax month after month. No Fairness Doctrine, I can cut my own trees in my yard and drive what I want! This guy is coming around…

Surely one of those is the right not to be tortured. Surely that is a piece of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

Is having your limbs pulled off, being fried in saline solution or having scissors stuck in your head torture or the pursuit of happiness?

This is the creed of July 4: No matter what it costs us, no matter how it scares us, no matter how foolish it seems to a cynical world, America should stand up for human rights.

Its really the creed of July 2 and only liberals are scared, whine about cost or feel foolish in front of the rest of the world. Real Americans just think we have it better.

No, not even the brave men who picked up a quill, dipped it in ink and signed the parchment that summer day in Philadelphia lived up perfectly to the creed. But they did something extraordinary, founding a new nation upon a vow to oppose all the evil habits of tyranny.

Where did they not live up to that creed? They laid the foundation that led to emancipation.

That is why history liberals still honors them occasionally.

But what will history think of us, of how we responded to our great challenge? Sept. 11 was a hideous evil, a grievous wound. Yet, truth told, it has not summoned our better angels as often as our worst.

Yeah, like those New York firefighters and police. The Port Authority. The crew of Flight 93. Our soldiers sacrifice despite ridiculous and naive ROE. Sept. 11 made America evil and the fault is ours.

We have betrayed the July 4 creed. We trample the vows we make, hand to heart.

“…hand to heart.” Not everyone.

Don’t imagine that only the torturer’s hand bears the guilt. The guilt reaches deep inside our Capitol George Bush, and beyond that - to us.

Our silence is complicit. In our name, innocents were jailed, humans tortured, our Constitution mangled. And we said so little.

We can’t claim not to have known. The best among us raised the alarm. Heroes in uniform, judges in robes, they opposed the perverse logic of an administration drenched in fear, drunk on power.

Do not compare the unassailable character of 99% of our Armed Forces to the liberal, activist Judiciary.

But did we heed them? Hardly. Barely . . .

We were so busy. Soccer practice at 6. A credit card balance to fret. The final vote on Idol.

We left it to those in power to keep our precious selves from harm. Whatever it took.

We took the coward’s way.

Yeah, this article, this is brave. Mmm Hmm. Not at all like every Lifetime movie or anti-Military motion picture…

The world sees this, even if we are too dim to grasp it. We’ve lost respect. We’ve shamed the memory of Jefferson, Adams and Franklin.

With the Fairness Doctrine, abortion, gay marriage, over regulation and anti-military drivel.

And all for a scam. The waterboarding, the snarling dogs, the theft of sleep - all the diabolical tricks haven’t made us safer. They may have averted this plot or that. But they’ve spawned new enemies by the thousands, made the jihadist rants ring true to so many ears.

“…waterboarding, the snarling dogs, the theft of sleep…” this wasn’t at a frat house was it? Where’s the real tortures I keep hearing about? Are they…made up?

So put out no flags.

On your lapel.

Sing no patriotic hymns.

In Denver.

We deserve no Fourth this year.

You never celebrated it right anyway.

Let us atone, in quiet and humility. Let us spend the day truly studying the example of our Founders. May we earn a new birth of courage before our nation’s birthday next rolls around...

…and throw out the ingrates.