Quick hits

Since the pope died, Lex has been busy pointing out the idiocy of the left leaning MSM’s attacks on the pope and his church. A few quick notes on other topics that have escaped note over that period:

The Minuteman Project: The press is lamenting a few citizens going down to our unprotected southern border to observe and call attention to the disorder that is taking place down there. The problem here is the name. The name “Minuteman” invokes the image of men of action with guns. With exactly the same mission, the Minutemen should have called themselves the “The Welcome Wagon to Save the Whales, Advance Gay and Women’s Rights and Oppose Globalization” or WWSTWAGAWROG for short. The MSM would have to have spent the first five minutes of every story debunking the name. It would have been comical after a while. By the way, the border patrol added 500 agents to southern border, the Mexicans mobilized their army on the border and illegal immigration is down everywhere the Minutemen have shown up. Can we call that success?

Tom Delay: Mr. Delay is in a bit of trouble for, gasp!, having family members on the payroll! Shocking! Simply shocking! Every member of congress who has a family member on the dole ought to resign today! Of course tomorrow Washington D.C. would be ghost town – which would be a good thing.

Sandy “The Pinch” Berger: Sandy, as Clintonistas are want to do, lied about purloining material from the National Archive. Mr. Burglar pled guilty to stealing the materials and then cutting them to pieces. No doubt the shredded documents would have would have proven embarrassing to Burglar and his boss – former president and reprobate for life Willey the Slick.

Changing the rules: I’m not crazy about the so called “nuclear option”. I’d support the rule change but only after Reps made Dems take to floor of the senate, cameras running, and jabber 24 hour a day for at least ten days. Then I’d vote to change the rules to vote for one of the president’s stalled nominations. As soon as the vote was taken, I’d vote to return the rules to status quo anti and start the process all over again. Make 'em talk. They are never funnier than when they search for a relavant thought.

Schivo Memo: In perhaps the most shocking development, Republicans are talking politics in Washington D.C. Sen. Mel Martinez fired an aide for penning a memo that indicated that the Dems might be vulnerable if they were thought to be complicit in the starving to death of Ms. Schaivo. Well, the Dems of course circulated memos on how to thwart the president’s minority judicial nominees and how to slow roll the president on Iraq. That of course is different – those were Dems and the MSM finds nothing untoward about Dems doing the exact same thing that Reps are strung up over. I think it’s all a bunch BS. Of course it’s political. It should be. Everything in Washington should be framed in the sharpest political context possible. The only way we have to hold these people accountable in the political arena. Let the memos flow. Reps have memos on supporting life. Dems have memos on opposing minorities. Now, let’s vote.