By now anyone who has had contact with the outside world knows that President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize this morning.  Why?  Maybe the liberal bloggers at the Huffington Post can enlighten us:

It would be hard to think of a more electrifying and deserved recipient of this year's Nobel Peace prize than President Obama.

Obviously, the award is based on the hope that Obama will achieve real progress in advancing diplomacy rather than confrontation around the globe. To some degree, he already has.

His acceptance speech in Oslo will offer him a golden chance to set forward a more sweeping and comprehensive vision of what his administration and America can do to advance peace.

Obama got the prize not for doing, but for being. Not for making peace, but for exemplifying something new on the world stage — the politics of dignity. The Nobel Committee has simply made explicit what many have sensed. President Obama is the herald of a dignitarian politics.

But anyone who thinks this award is unprecedented hasn't been paying attention.

Wow.  I guess giving great speeches over and over again beats actually following through with any action.  Just talking about his lofty, and unrealistic, idealism won Obama a Nobel Prize.  I need to take some speech classes.

Former leader of Solidarity and former Polish President Lech Welesa, who also won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, said upon hearing today's news, "So soon? Too early. He has no contribution so far. He is still at an early stage. He is only beginning to act."  Welesa, who fought against Soviet oppression his entire life, knows what it means to struggle for peace.

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele released a statement saying, “The real question Americans are asking is, ‘What has President Obama actually accomplished?’ It is unfortunate that the president’s star power has out shined tireless advocates who have made real achievements working towards peace and human rights."  He continued, "One thing is certain –President Obama won’t be receiving any awards from Americans for job creation, fiscal responsibility, or backing up rhetoric with concrete action.”

While conservatives attacked Obama's record, the leftists at the Huffington Post also went on the attack.

It's giving an award to encourage the change in world relations that Obama has promised, and to try to help shield Obama against his domestic adversaries. The committee is well aware that history is contingent and that Obama might fail. It knows very well that the same country that elected Obama also gave the world George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan.

In giving this award, the Nobel Committee is telling these right-wing forces to back off. And it's sending a message of encouragement to those Americans who put Obama in office.

Yes, America did give the world Ronald Reagan, and most of the world thanks God that we did, including, I'm sure, Lech Welesa.  Reagan, who Joe Scarborough pointed out on his radio show this morning is conspicuously absent from the list of Nobel Peace Prize winners, did more than anyone in the last few decades to fight for peace.  Regan recognized the evil inherent in the Soviet system, and brought that system down freeing millions from oppression.  But of course in leftist mythology, the Soviet Union was a model for the socialist utopia, and the Reagan administration had nothing to do with its downfall.

But the attacks didn't stop with Kool-Aid drinking bloggers.  The Democratic National Committee issued the following statement:

The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with the terrorists — the Taliban and Hamas this morning — in criticizing the President for receiving the Nobel Peace prize. Republicans cheered when America failed to land the Olympics and now they are criticizing the President of the United States for receiving the Nobel Peace prize — an award he did not seek but that is nonetheless an honor in which every American can take great pride — unless of course you are the Republican Party. The 2009 version of the Republican Party has no boundaries,has no shame and has proved that they will put politics above patriotism at every turn. It's no wonder only 20 percent of Americans admit to being Republicans anymore - it's an embarrassing label to claim.

Of course this ridiculous statement only follows up on the liberal attack line that anyone who doesn't agree with and praise Obama is anti-American, a racists, and a right-wing terrorist.  Obama can do no wrong, and all the world should love him. 

The Republican Party puts politics above patriotism?  Does the DNC really want to press that charge?  These people must have been in a cave during the Bush years (probably helping out Osama bin Laden just to stick it to President Bush). 

The Republicans have no boundaries and no shame?  Do the Democrats not find shame in continuing to support their last president, Bill Clinton, who was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice, and is a despicable womanizer to boot?  Do they feel no shame in supporting a president who has John Holdren, Kevin Jennings, Cass Sunstein, and (formerly) Van Jones in his administration?