Wow, they really are fascists

I like to bandy about the phrase "Republifascists" whenever I can reasonably work it into a post. Such is my great love for that awkward little compound word. But, I gotta tell you, in this case it may be appropriate.

Here's Blogs for Bush (*snide little chuckle*) reverently quoting a pathetically ignorant soldier:

[...] Citizens with no military experience cannot begin to empathize with the hardships that we endure, nor can they understand the split second life and death decisions we are forced to make. Instead we’ve created a nation of hind-sight soldier critics with force fed tunnel vision.

[...] As a soldier my concern is that while Americans enjoy their freedom of speech and freedom of the press they are inadvertently weakening our defenses, damaging our nation, and negatively influencing the frontline soldiers that continue to ensure their freedoms.

Yeah, that pesky First Amendment sure can be inconvenient to those off fighting Mr. Bush's elective war of national liberation. I'll sleep better tonight knowing that Sergeant Benito is defending my "freedoms" in, well, ....Iraq. (Even though it appears that my uniformed countryman is more hellbent on curbing my freedoms than that old bugger Saddam ever was.)

But I digress. Our correspondent -- who describes himself as "Being in the minority of soldiers with formal education" (Hmmm, a whiff of elitism there, methinks. He's not being appropriately deferential to our boys in uniform. Someone alert FoxNews!) -- has much more to say. So get your brownshirt out of the closet and go have a look.

By the way, Blogs for Bush (*snide little chuckle*) says we should pass this along. I could not agree more...

A hero indeed

In a political climate that defines anyone wearing a government uniform -- from postman to Marine -- as a "hero" it's nice to be reminded that the private sector can get in the action too.

Ladies and gentlemen, Nomar Garciaparra, American hero:

"Then we heard a splash, and it sounded kind of close," Victor [Nomar's uncle] said. "We looked down and saw someone in the water [Boston Harbor], and so Nomar started running down."

Victor said he was trailing Nomar when he saw the other woman fall in, apparently hitting her head.

"When she fell, it was about a 12- or 15-foot drop, and I thought she had hit the deck of the pier, so I jumped off a balcony," he said. "I figured she was probably unconscious."

By the time Victor Garciaparra got close to the second woman, he said he reached out for her only to find Nomar already in the water with both women in his arms. Victor said Nomar swam with them before the men pulled them onto the deck.

"They were kind of combative at first," Victor said. "I think they were in shock from the fall, and one of them had a bump on her head. But then when we pulled them up, the one girl recognized Nomar and says, `Are you Nomar?'

"He didn't respond to her, and she asked about three times, `Are you Nomar? Are you Nomar?' Finally he said to her, `I think you hit your head pretty hard,' and that was about it." [Article]

Hats off to Nomah!

Who said it?

A consequential presidency my arse. Here's a mystery pundit on Harriet Miers:

[...] First, Bush has no right to say "Trust me." He was elected to represent the American people, not to be dictator for eight years. Among the coalitions that elected Bush are people who have been laboring in the trenches for a quarter-century to change the legal order in America. While Bush was still boozing it up in the early '80s, Ed Meese, Antonin Scalia, Robert Bork and all the founders of the Federalist Society began creating a farm team of massive legal talent on the right.

Ok, so who said it? Paul Krugman? Michael Moore? Nancy Pelosi?

Would you believe.... Ann Coulter? (!)

My, oh my, how times have changed. It seems like only yesterday that her crowd was smearing as "anti-American" anyone who dared second guess our hapless Emperor. Let's face it, Fox Fans, when Ann Coulter turns on W., you know the wheels have come off the bus...

And in a "true color" moment of utter desperation, Empress Laura -- taking a page from the Dem playbook -- allowed that the criticism of Ms. Miers may be nothing more than sexism.

Um, yeah...

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