Michael Kruse is the vice-chair of the Presbyterian Church USA General Assembly Mission Council. He is certainly no right-winger. But on his blog, Kruse’s critique of the liberal Christian political activist and Obama confidant Jim Wallis and his Orwellian hypocrisy is powerful. Kruse writes:

What is the surest sign you have encountered someone living in an echo chamber? When they say, “My side is so reasonable and civil, but see how mean and hateful the other side is.”

The fact is that hyperbolic rhetoric is part and parcel of American politics. It ebbs and flows in intensity but there never was some golden age of nonpartisan government from which we have fallen. So I expect hyperbolic rhetoric from all sides. What I do take exception to is people engaging in hyperbolic partisan rhetoric while purporting to speak with a moral Christian authority. I don’t care if you name is Jim Dobson or Jim Wallis.

To which I can only say: Amen.