Just a few random thoughts for the day...
--If Don Imus had said "nappy-headed hos" this week, would he have been fired? I doubt it. And New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine wouldn't have needed to drive 91 m.p.h. to get to a press conference, ending up in a near-fatal car wreck.
--According to Mike Gallagher, if you think calling your daughter a "thoughtless pig" is out of line, you must be a "perfect parent." I'm not a perfect parent, and I've probably said things I didn't mean when I was angry with one or the other of my children. But I don't call them names, and I wouldn't be embarrassed if someone had recorded my arguments with them and given it to the press. There's a lot of room for being a good parent between calling your child cruel names and being a "perfect parent."
--Harry Reid finally stated what we've all known for months about what the Democrats think of the war in Iraq: he says the war is lost. It's been obvious that Democrats, while denying they want to cut-and-run or that they don't support our troops, want to surrender. This is why it is so important that they declare defeat before the surge has time to work. It's also just more evidence of why we can't trust Democrats with national defense.
--I'm glad Alberto Gonzales finally remembered the magic words when testifying before Congress: I don't recall. It doesn't really matter if the words are true or not, but it does prevent Democrats from Scooter Libbying him. The unfortunate conclusion from his testimony is that he signed off on the firings without knowing much about them himself. Since there was nothing wrong with firing presidential appointments, it doesn't really matter how involved Gonzales was in them, but it certainly gives the wrong impression of the Justice Department. I liked Gonzales the time I met him while I was in law school, but this whole episode reeks of incompetence that should not go on. The president has shown his loyalty to Gonzales, now it's time for Gonzales to show his loyalty to the President by resigning.
--Why does anyone take Media Matters' clown Eric Boehlert seriously? Boehlert accuses Power Line of lying about the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, but only succeeds in showing what a big liar he is. John Hinderaker does an excellent job eviscerating Boehlert's pathetic accusation by pointing out that Boehlert spends his entire column on only one (and the weakest) of the Swifties' accusations. This, of course, is because every other accusation by SBVT are true, including the fact that John Kerry lied about Christmas in Cambodia and later had to admit he's a liar. And yet, lefties have said to "bookmark the column" for argumentation with conservatives. Do liberals really want to look that stupid? You gotta wonder.
--Why do so many liberals argue that the Gonzales v. Carhart decision is wrong because the majority was made up of men? I've seen this argument made in several places (see here for starters), but I doubt seriously they would agree with this philosophy taken to its natural conclusion: only business people can make business law, only military leaders can be involved in military decisions such as appropriations and conduct of war, only parents with children in school can make decisions about education, only religious persons can form laws affecting religion. The fact is, the Supreme Court gets to decide the constitutionality of all laws brought before it, not just those about which they might have a personal stake (and even though, as Echidne points out, Ruth Bader Ginsberg has a uterus, it's been at least 2 1/2 decades since it was functional. Does it still count?)
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