Get Yer (Right Wing) Talking Points right Here!

Roger Simon believes in Gay rights...and a few other "liberal" causes...as far as the gang over at Pajamas media is concerned, this makes him a Liberal too....so it's no doubt they crow loudly when such an avowed liberal picks up on their theme, riffs on it, and makes it his own.Our friend Glenn Greenwald introduces us to one such (alleged) liberal writer today....

First, a snippet from Simon's post:

I never cease to be amazed –- and perhaps it is my own myopia – that my former colleagues on the Left can be blind to this situation. They act as if the threat is not real and is only a blip caused by a post 9/11 overreaction by George Bush, thus ignoring virtually all of Western history since the year 800, not to mention the overwhelming demographic changes of recent decades. (John Edwards –- interestingly an opponent of gay marriage -- recently called the "War on Terror" a bumper sticker. At least, he’s consistent.).

The theme is, of course, Liberals (and Democrats in particular) don't take the GWOT (republicanese for GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR) seriously.

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like.....victory"

Glenn has a few "choice comments" on that meme:

Every now and then, it is worth noting that substantial portions of the right-wing political movement in the United States -- the Pajamas Media/right-wing-blogosphere/Fox News/Michelle Malkin/Rush-Limbaugh-listener strain -- actually believe that Islamists are going to take over the U.S. and impose sharia law on all of us. And then we will have to be Muslims and "our women" will be forced into burkas and there will be no more music or gay bars or churches or blogs. This is an actual fear that they have -- not a theoretical fear but one that is pressing, urgent, at the forefront of their worldview.

snippet

They actually think this is going to happen ("read Zawahiri's speeches about the Plan for Caliphate!!") and believe that we must do everything in our power -- without limits -- to stop it. And there are a lot of them who think this. In recommending this essay, the most-read right-wing blogger today described it as: "ROGER SIMON has thoughts on gay marriage and the War on Terror."

The rest of the post is quite interesting...go see for yourself.... here's the linky-thing

"...hast thou slain the jaberwock, my Son?"

"Oh frabjous day!

Calooo

Calaaa"

From Jaberwoky, by Robert Lewis Stevenson

In case you haven't heard, KKKarl Rove has resigned and will leave the White House at the end of this month...

Speculation is running rampant.....and so is the rumor mill as to why satan...er...ah...Rove chose this particular time and means to leave office....

I'm guessing that several well-funded Republican Presidential Nominee Candidates are beating a path for his door even as we speak.

The Jaberwok has not been slain....he's just moved to another cave....

Good thoughts from Atrios

If you get a chance to bop on over to Eschaton today, please do so...although I can't resist quoting him for your enjoyment.

As has been the case for some many things these
past years the choices were never "nothing" or "Pony plan." The choices were
always "nothing" or "George Bush's plan." The failure to comprehend that simple
fact has prevented members of our very serious crowd of pundits from listening
to or admitting to the validity of criticism of so many things. Years later,
opponents of the Iraq invasion are almost entirely absent from our mainstream
our discourse even though they were the ones who were pointing out what was
going wrong in real time even as the Weekly Standard cheerleaders were simply
telling us that hope was a plan and that clapping louder was the best thing we
could do.



For years it's been a verbal tic of many Iraq
war opponents to assert "I supported the war in Afghanistan..." as a necessary
prophylactic to charges of "unserious peacenik dirty fucking hippie!" The
question is dangling, however... "should you have?" At the very least, shouldn't
you have tried to open the door to critics who were less than supportive, not
because they hate America, but because they were concerned that George Bush
would fuck the whole thing up? Because it was hard to imagine that they'd
actually go in and rebuild the place?

A lot of the denizens of Left Blogsylvania are speaking the (openly) the truths that most of us have felt since 2002, 2003 and maybe even earlier....It's good to hear these things and maybe if enough people hear them we will reach some kind of public "critical mass" and make REAL CHANGE happen..

Have a good Sunday...

Ride 'em (existentialist) Cowboy!!

WoooooHooooo!

That's the kind of talk I like to see coming out of Democrats...the truth...with all it's warts and uglies...being spoken plainly and directly....Here's a snippet from our good friend (or at least he SHOULD be our good friend) THE EXISTENTIALIST COWBOY!

Some quick notes: Barack Obama is the most shallow, non-descript, boring politician to ever come down the pike --an intellectual lightweight whose soul has been coached out of him by media consultants. In Barack Obama, I find the vacuous echoes of Ronald Reagan, a previous lightweight who had mastered the art of reading buzzwords off a cue card. My skin crawls.

SNIP....

More quick notes: I wish John Edwards were uglier. Hillary Clinton is damaged goods. Ron Paul, still a Republican, has many more scales to shed before he can change his repitil..uh...Republican skin.

God help us --the only intelligent politician in the field is Dennis Kucinich who has only a snow ball's chance in hell of ever becoming President. It's our loss. Watching Democrats is akin to medieval debate about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

God help us is right....

I am sick to death of being given hand-picked choices from the media and being told to pick any one of them because "they're all good"...in other words it doesn't make any difference which one you pick because they're virtually ALL ALIKE!

The Cowboy also tells us something that should be perfectly obvious to all of us Democrats but apparently nobody dares speak it.....does this sound familiar to you?

Political rhetoric is just more of the same when, in fact, nothing is the same. How could the Democrats have missed the sea change that has taken place, the fundamental challenges to Constitutional government? What are the implications? Simply, the Bush junta has challenged not only the Constitution but almost 1,000 years of progress. Principles mouthed by Bush simply fly in the face of the Magna Carta, the English Petition of Right, the Mayflower Compact, The Virginia Declaration of Rights, The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution and the Bill of Rights, The Nuremberg Principles, and every US Supreme Court decision that has upheld the right of persons to be free of arbitary rule, to be secure in their homes, to be free of unreasonable arrest in the absence of probable cause that a crime has been committed.

I'm telling you...this is important stuff and maybe it's time to take a stand...on principles if nothing else...

You should probably make the Cowboy's site a regular stop...he's sometimes pretty "deep" but that's the kind of thinking we need these days!

Potpouri

I'll get back to the State-wide politics in a second but I' ve wrapped up my summary of the trip here

Amy Sue had a piece in today's Marshfield News-Herald about the proposed Cable Franchising bill.....and in that article I think she gives away her stance on the Governor's proposed State-Wide Smoking ban....read it here...tell me what you think...When I was in Madison on 7/25 she was still undecided.

I suppose we should be getting ready for the County/State Fair. Anybody signing up to work yet? Who has the sign-up sheet?

Things seem to be pretty quiet right now....got anything you want to argue about?

The Democratic Candidates Debate(s)....personally I think it's a bit EARLY to even be doing this...

Just for fun....I'm posting a picture of me, the food nazi and our favorite State Senator, Julie Lassa.

I'm baaaaaaaaacccccckkkkkk!

Got back from the "Sunshine State" yesterday and went into committee meetings immediately...

More meetings this afternoon...gonna be busy, busy, busy...

I know we think it's hot up here right now but compared to the 104 degree heat index yesterday and the 110 degree heat index today in Tallahassee, Florida, this is heaven.

The trip home was very smooth...we were apparently among the luckier passengers on "that" airline who weren't delayed or cancelled coming out of Atlanta yesterday...

I'll catch up on things over the next few days or so...in the meantime....

:Hail to thee our Alma Mater....

(note: singers RUN in my family.....as fast as they can)

on edit: I should be ashamed to admit this but I never knew the founder of Florida State University was the GRANDSON OF THOMAS JEFFERSON! Here's a statute of Francis Wayles Epps on Westcott Square...

More later....

Liquid sunshine....

I'm looking out of my hotel room window in the fables "sunshine state" (with free high speed wifi no less) and notice that the sunshine seems to come in liquid form too.....matter of fact, it's coming down in buckets....

Yesterday turned out to be a 21 hour long ordeal for us....a great deal of it was spent in an airport terminal watching three....that's right, count 'em....THREE connecting flights to our destination get cancelled by an airline that simple doesn't care.....we ended up getting "diverted" (another term of art which airlines like to use) to an airport 100 miles from our destination and being "shuttled" to our destination.

Our 2 PM arrival ended up being midnight....and then finding food was like foraging in a desert...but we found it....

more later....

d