As per a thread the other day, “s” shows in preview, but does not post. You have to use the full “strike” tag for it to work. Blame WordPress, the Mein Kampf of Liberal Fascism, which has also eaten my last two posts whole without spitting out bones or anything.

Gerson wrote:

Bush has received little attention or thanks for his compassionate reforms.

That’s true, and it’s time we all recognized Bush’s compassion for the disadvantaged. There are dozens of hard-working cronies and campaign contributors who would have had to forego purchases of much-needed yachts and polo ponies without the tax cuts enacted by this enlightened administration.

Snark aside, judging from this op-ed piece, Gerson is a maggot.

Or some of Teh Base, the ones whose jobs have been outsourced, whose kids are doing a third tour in Iraq, and whose homes are now being foreclosed, are dimly becoming aware of the fact that their Dear Leaders’ sadistic impulses will not necessarily be confined to brown people, islamofascists and other vaguely-defined terrors from “out there”. Even a sheep may balk at the very door of the slaughterhouse.

Good for him!

Menfolk. He actually said menfolk!

That’s both funny and fucked up.

And it tells me all I need to know about the hopeless case of Mr. Joyner.

Menfolk. Sweet Jesus…

It’s gotta be that conservatives are getting trounced because they aren’t *conservative* enough!!

Join the picnic, Paddy Mac!

That he even HAS rules for discussing “Liberal Fascism: From the French Revolution to the French Connection” pegs our tired irony meter yet again.

First they destroyed satire, but I did not object, because I wasn’t a satirist. Then they destroyed irony, but I didn’t object, because I use drip-dry. Now, they’re destroying self-awareness, but I know that just doesn’t apply to me.

Fixed.

But there is nothing to prevent me from waxing nostalgic. Watching the speech, I recalled meeting Gov. Bush of Texas in the spring of 1999, before he was a declared candidate. He talked with rushed intensity about being a “different kind of Republican,” dedicated to racial healing and helping the poor and determined to provide moral leadership as a contrast and corrective to the Clinton years. Because I believed him, I left journalism and joined his campaign.

Today’s New York Times :

Today’s Justice Department seems to have nothing but contempt for those principles. The Bush White House has seemingly never heard of them. Thousands of petitioners for clemency have been waiting for years for a ruling, some since before Bill Clinton left office. Thousands of others have been rejected out of hand, largely because preparing a fair report of what might be said in their favor would take too much time and cost too much money.

What have we learned, people?
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Granted, there’s not a lot substance to their argument, but make no mistake, they are utterly convinced of it.

You don’t really want an answer to that, do you?

gbear, another better still at the end of the greatest team thread.

What? I was told the process involved gay-marrying an illegal immigrant couple to their livestock with the ceremony funded by George Soros! Now what am I going to do with these extra copies of the Koran?