Former George W. Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer perfectly sums up the blighted world view of the Republican Party with this mean-spirited tweet:

I increased donations to charity in 2012. This deal limits my deductions so I, & many others, will likely donate less in 2013.

— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) January 1, 2013

The latest wingnut outrageous outrage revolves around President Obama’s use of the phrase “bumps in the road,” while speaking about the road to democracy and peace in the Middle East and the Arab Spring during an interview on 60 Minutes last night.

“I think it was absolutely the right thing for us to do to align ourselves with democracy, universal rights a notion that people have to be able to participate in their own governance … But I was pretty certain and continue to be pretty certain that there are going to be bumps in the road because, you know, in a lot of these places, the one organizing principle has been Islam. The one part of society that hasn’t been controlled completely by the government. There are strains of extremism, and anti-Americanism, and anti-Western sentiment.”

Ari Fleischer was one of the first out of the gate with his gross and morbid mischaracterization of President Obama’s comment:

I guess when u win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing nothing, an attack that kills an Ambassador is just a “bump in the road.”

— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) September 24, 2012

This piqued my interest so off I went in search of others who have used this phrase when speaking about Middle East peace process or perhaps the Iraq War. I was able to immediately find two from the previous administration under George W. Bush…

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