TGIF random Republican nightmares

marjorie says...

Since when is the U.S. as flimsy as a flag?, asks the Journal's Jim Belshaw. That's the best Journal headline I've seen in a good while. I recommend you all to read Belshaw's commentary about what he calls "Outragefest" over the misdemeanor conviction of Peter Lynch for destroying the Mexican flag on UNM campus last year. It's predictable that the outrage-fest found a home at KKOB, isn't it? According to Belshaw, one caller said UNM was a "Democrat-controlled communist place." Ha! Belshaw reminds us in his commentary that "...the responsibilities of a jury demand more of us than talk radio does"...thank you!


From the NYT this morning comes this headline: 81% in Poll Say Nation is Headed on the Wrong Track. The NYT tells us this number sets a record for this question since they started asking it in the early 1990s. Someone should ask lobbyist/McCain campaign manage Rick Davis about that today up at the Tamaya resort, where he's speaking to the Republican National Committee. Ask them all, actually: Why should any person in their right mind vote for a Republican this year, considering more than 4000 U.S. troops are dead, many more are permanently disabled or psychologically traumatized, 1000s upon 1000s of Americans are losing their homes, gasoline is pushing $4 a gallon, and working people in this country are teetering on the edge of security? Not that Bush seems all that interested in our problems...


Remember New Orleans? You know, the city that was almost wiped out by Hurricane Katrina, that has pretty much disappeared from the front pages? The residents still want to return home there. Makes me think Congress should enact a "right of return" policy for the United States. Thanks to the Center for Media Justice's new series, "Media Penalties," for the link to the NYT article, plus the link to the Lou Dobb's clip in which he calls Condi Rice and Barack Obama "Cotton..."pickers. Yes, he really did. El Molestoso has a great commentary about it at SWOPblogger. Despite how awful Lou Dobbs is, El Molestoso's headline, "Lou Dobbs v. Condi Rice on Race in America!!!" is pretty good.