Weekend o’ Stupid

I didn’t know that the left could be so tedious without causing a dimensional collapse.

First, they declare contrary legal opinions from private individuals to have “debunked” the idea that a mandate to carry heath insurance is unconstitutional.

An opinion couldn’t debunk a cheeseburger, even if said cheeseburger was in actuality a bratwurst, until it comes from a court of law.

And now every “independent” who voted for Obama and knows that he gets to appoint judges should understand why they deserve a swift kick in their genitalia (women can be independents, and I’m an equal opportunity genitalia kicker).

Not to be outdone, Bill Moyers put his head up his ass on public television

You’ll remember the (Washington) Post was a cheerleader for the invasion of Iraq, often sounding like a megaphone for the Bush-Cheney propaganda machine. Now it’s calling for escalating the war in Afghanistan. In a time of historic budget deficits, the paper said, Afghanistan has to take priority over universal health care for Americans. Fixing Afghanistan, it seems, is “a ‘necessity'”; fixing America’s social contract is not.

But listen to what an Afghan villager recently told a correspondent for the “Economist:” “We need security. But the Americans are just making trouble for us. They cannot bring peace, not if they stay for 50 years.”

Listen, too, to Andrew Bacevich, the long-time professional soldier, graduate of West Point, veteran of Vietnam, and now a respected scholar of military and foreign affairs, who was on this program a year ago. He recently told “The Christian Science Monitor,” “The notion that fixing Afghanistan will somehow drive a stake through the heart of jihadism is wrong. …If we give General McChrystal everything he wants, the jihadist threat will still exist.”

This from a warrior who lost his own soldier son in Iraq, and who doesn’t need animated graphics to know what the rest of us never see.

So here’s a suggestion. In a week or so, when the president announces he is escalating the war, let’s not hide the reality behind eloquence or animation. No more soaring rhetoric, please. No more video games. If our governing class wants more war, let’s not allow them to fight it with young men and women who sign up because they don’t have jobs here at home, or can’t afford college or health care for their families.

Let’s share the sacrifice. Spread the suffering. Let’s bring back the draft.

Moyers must feel pretty confident about there actually being an explosion of hellfire if the Obama Administration fired him, and I agree that there probably would be. However, having hurt the executive’s feelings, I wouldn’t put it past them pulling a “FOX” and banning their representatives from appearing on Moyers’ show.

Which is on public television.

The government banning itself from itself.

And that was how a black hole was begun in the Milky Way galaxy, on the third planet from the star Sol, in a city called the District of Columbia by a group of political rookies.