YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP
There’s a guy named Eric Erikson who runs a website called Red State who is to the “conservative” blogosphere what Rush Limbaugh is to talk radio. His reaction to Justice Souter’s announcement that he’s leaving the Supreme Court is to call the man a “goat f***ing child molester.” Justice Souter is, of course, a nominee of George H.W. Bush, and if memory serves me was a Republican. Then, of course, Republicans don’t have to make sense. There was a wing of the “pure” conservatives who told Arlen Specter “don’t let the door hit ya!”. See, for example, Michele Malkin, and no I’m not going to link to the bitch and add to her audience. Congressional Republicans, especially in the U.S. Senate, are talking about “payback” for Obama’s treatment of Justice Alito and are looking for Judiciary Committee leadership for the inevitable filibuster attempt, no matter who the nominee. Add the teabaggers and torture advocates (and it turns out that Jesus just facepalmed when he found out the most likely American voters to favor torture are white evangelicals) to such always wrong spokespersons as William Kristol and Michael Steele and I have to begin to wonder when we can start calling the Republican Party “fringe”.
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