Archive for May, 2009
May 31st, 2009
 
 If it turns out that the murder this morning of Dr. George Tiller in Wichita (see the post just below this one) was motivated by the victim’s abortion practice, which seems a good bet at this early juncture, the political ramifications could go well beyond the abortion debate.
 Maybe I’m getting a little ahead of myself here, but I see the possibility that the Wichita case could bring widespread public disfavor for overheated right-wing rhetoric in general, no matter the specific topics.
 While such a scenario would bode well for liberals, it also raises the possibility — nay, the inevitabilty — that some on the left will unfairly seek to lump all anti-abortion activists with the tragegy in Wichita.
 In any event, the political aftermath of this killing will play out for weeks, perhaps months.
May 31st, 2009
 Oh, yeah. THIS is going to do the so-called pro-life movement a lot of good.
 UPDATE: The Wichita paper SAYS police are looking for a white male suspect in the fatal shooting of Dr. George Tiller.
 UPDATE II: ABC SAYS a suspect has been taken into custody.
May 31st, 2009
The PETTINESS of the Obamaphobes is simply incredible.
May 31st, 2009
There’s some pretty funny stuff here, including a little item I shared you with a few days ago:
May 31st, 2009
 Kathleen Parker (above) offers a WORTHY PERSPECTIVE on the right-wing fuss over the Supreme Court nomination of Sonia Sotomayor.
 UPDATE: Peggy Noonan, another conservative pundit, also has her moments of CLARITY.
May 31st, 2009
First, I give you the worst rap song: a little ditty by a couple of young right-wingers:
Then, there’s this 1965 classic from Bob Dylan, “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” arguably the first rap song ever:
May 29th, 2009
 In the civil war that has bloodied the Republican Party for months now, a new battlefront has opened with the emergence of a major spat regarding the overheated rhetoric with which some conservatives have opposed the Supreme Court nomination of Sonia Sotomayor.
 What makes this new squabble especially entertaining is that there are rabid right-wingers on both sides.
 GOP Sens. John Cornyn and Jeff Session, neither of whom has ever been accused of being moderate, are publicly urging some of their ideological brethren to TONE DOWN their anti-Sotomayor rants.
 The senators are wasting their time. It ain’t gonna happen.
 UPDATE: Speaking of overheated rhetoric, wingnut radio personality G. Gordon Liddy SAYS he’s concerned about Sotomayor’s menstrual cycle.
May 29th, 2009
 
 If I may, I’d like to preface this story with a little background.
 The first time I ever paid any real attention to Erick Erickson was two years ago this month, when I happened across something he had written on his conservative blog, RedState.com.
 It was the day after one of the early Republican presidential debates, and I was looking for commentary on the event. My Googling efforts toward that end led me to read Erickson’s recap of the debate. His PIECE gave me none of the useful insights I had been looking for, but I was nonetheless amazed at how the points he tried to make were so disorganized, illogical and contradictory.
 In short order, Erickson declared that “John McCain won” and that “Fred Thompson…really won.” He said that “not one of the men on the stage rose to a level to really stand out” and that “Mitt Romney shined, he stood out, he did well.” Getting back to McCain, Erickson said he “reigned supreme.”
 And, as if to chastise himself, Erickson also said: “Let’s not dance around about this.”
 In the 24 months since then, I haven’t much concerned myself with Erickson’s writings. Nor did I attend a speech he delivered a few months ago before a group of Rockford Republicans.
 Yesterday, however, I had occasion to read an Erickson post on RedState that characterized criticisms of Rush Limbaugh (and two other right-wingers) by his fellow conservatives as akin to St. Peter’s shunning of Jesus as described in the gospel of St. Mark. (Read it HERE.)
 The moral of all this is that I should have resolved two years ago to pay closer attention to the writings of Erick Erickson, if only for the laughs.
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