JABbering Stooge

David “Dean of the Beltway Press Corpse Corps” Broder, gleefully shoving the Overton Window* rightward on torture:

In times like these, the understandable desire to enforce individual accountability must be weighed against the consequences. This country is facing so many huge challenges at home and abroad that the president cannot afford to be drawn into what would undoubtedly be a major, bitter partisan battle over prosecution of Bush-era officials. The cost to the country would simply be too great.

When President Ford pardoned Nixon in 1974, I wrote one of the few columns endorsing his decision, which was made on the basis that it was more important for America to focus on the task of changing the way it would be governed and addressing the current problems. It took a full generation for the decision to be recognized by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and others as the act of courage that it had been.

I hope we can avoid another such lapse. The wheels are turning, but they can still be halted before irreparable damage is done.

Mind you, this is the same David Broder who called for Bill Clinton to resign during Monicagate. So now we have a glimpse of Broder’s moral calculus (such as it is): Oval Office hummers are worse crimes than flagrant human rights abuses. I wish I were making this up.

The cake is a lie!

* Cf.

It’s a day ending in “y”, so that means that more Democratic congresspeeps are getting death threats in the fax machine:

Last week, The Hill reported that Rep. Brian Baird’s (D-WA) office had received a fax that depicted President Barack Obama as the Joker and warned of “Death to All Marxists! Foreign and Domestic!” The Secret Service has said that the fax was “potentially an investigative intelligence matter.” Now, a second member of Congress is reporting that he received the same fax. On CNN this morning, Rep. David Scott (D-GA) — whose office was recently vandalized with a swastika — held up a printout of the fax, adding that the picture of Obama he received had “the swastika on his forehead.” Watch it:

And in other news, the Obama Administration is the true mafia. Pillz-E’s Wingnut Welfare-recipient brother said so.

This is your baby, Michelle Malkin. OWN IT.

BY THE WAY: Sen. John Cornyn says that we’re not allowed to complain about the death threats his party’s supporters send to politicians or public interest organizations. ‘Cause that’s un-American, don’cha know.

Did I mention that Democratic politicians are receiving death threats for the crime of supporting Obama’s health care plan?

Dick Cheney: Totalitarian Fuckwad.

John Yoo: Enabler of Totalitarian Fuckwads.

• Say, how’s that democracy working out for ya? Good? That’s good. It’d be a shame if somethin’ was to happen to it. ‘Cause, y’know, stuff happens to countries who don’t play ball — that don’t pass laws requiring women to be barefoot and constantly pregnant in the kitchen…in burqas. Civil war and domestic terrorism — stuff like that. Just sayin’.

“Shorter” concept created by Daniel Davies, perfected by Elton Beard and given a beneficial mutation by the fine folks at Sadly, No!
I am aware of all Internet tradtions.™

Over at Jill “Obama Treats Flies Better Than T3h Bay-beez” Stanek’s Doctor-Snuffing Roadhouse Bar & Grill, they’ve come up with all new inflammatory rhetoric to heave at abortion providers like verbal Molotov cocktails:

Taliban committing postbirth abortions

 

Pro-aborts should have no trouble with this, since they already support the killing of preborn children pretty much the same way. From the Washington Times today:

[Long cite of Moonie Times article on Taliban commander in Pakistan recruiting children for suicide attacks omitted — Ed.]

Just about all will consider these acts sickening and despicable. Pro-lifers feel the same about abortions. The only differences are the children described in this article are a few years older than children aborted, and you can see them, while you don’t see children being aborted.

That’s right. In Jill Stanek’s fevered brain, if you’re a doctor who provides abortions or are merely a person who supports the legality of abortion, you are no better than the Taliban and deserve to be shot on sight. Never mind that Jill Stanek and her stable of Scott Roeder wannabes have more in common with the Taliban than your average abortion provider — namely, the desire to create a worldwide oppressive theocratic state where women (including Miss Stanek) are little more than chattel.

And that’s not all on the abortion front. Today we find this bit of Scientology-esque brainwashing from Gadsden, Alabama:

It’s an eye-catching sight — 945 dolls attached to stakes with ribbons or cable ties lining a field next to Goodyear Heights Baptist Church off [REDACTED].

The dolls are the visual element of a protest against abortion spearheaded by the church’s Kenny Christian Encouragers Sunday School class.

Cindy Gilley, whose husband, Mike, is the class’s teacher, came up with the idea.

“I had seen other displays where people used crosses, but the Lord showed me that wasn’t enough,” she said.

No, you need a high-powered rifle with a scope for it to be enough, right?

Rather than dialing down on the rhetoric in the wake of Dr. Tiller’s murder — something that any sane, rational, non-terrorist public-interest group would do after one of their own has crossed the Moral Event Horizon™ — it seems that the Zygote Zealots are doubling down on their hate-filled ragegasms.

Is Khamenei nuts?

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s supreme leader said Friday that Iran’s disputed presidential vote had not been rigged, sternly warning protesters to halt massive demonstrations or be held responsible for creating chaos.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sided with hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and offered no concessions to the opposition. He effectively closed any chance for a new vote by calling the June 12 election a “definitive victory.”

The speech created a stark choice for opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi and his supporters: drop their demands for a new vote or take to the streets again in blatant defiance of the man endowed with virtually limitless powers under Iran’s constitution.

Play him off, Keyboard Cat!

I did? Oh goody! Well, here’s one more example. I almost did a spit take when I read this comment about Michelle “McCarthyism 2.0, bitches!” Bachmann’s plans to violate federal law by refusing to fill out the census:

Wingnuts have both long (still worried about how Bill Clinton invented the blow job and Ted Kennedy invented the drunk driving accident) and short memories, depending on what they need, and in this case, they’re being instructed to forget that the Census happens every ten years, that it’s constitutionally mandated, and that so far, it has not sapped you or any family members of precious bodily fluids. Instead, wingnuts are being instructed to be up in arms about the Obama administration’s new invention that is surely designed to rape your daughters and take your guns.

I can’t really top that in hilarity if I tried.

And just why was the crazy lady from Minnesota bragging about her intent to break the law a year from now?

In an interview Wednesday morning with The Washington Times “America’s Morning News,” Mrs. Bachmann, Minnesota Republican, said the questions have become “very intricate, very personal” and she also fears ACORN, the community organizing group that came under fire for its voter registration efforts the crime of registering Democratic voters last year, will be part of the Census Bureau’s door-to-door information collection efforts. [Fixed your typo, Moonie Times. — Ed.]

Yes, ACORN. She’s wrapping her head in tinfoil to answer the door when the Census Bureau comes calling! Isn’t that lovely?

I’m starting to see Canadian Cynic’s point on this — these people are not to be engaged or debated. They are to be mocked and ridiculed because clearly they are Not Serious Thinkers™.

Randall Terry told Randi Rhodes that “Hate works” in the wake of Dr. Tiller’s murder.