The Politics of Lunacy or Vice Versa

Welcome to the wonderful wacky world of politics in the 21st Century where nothing makes sense and why should it?

Senator Dick Durbin calls U.S. detention facilities "gulags", describes what is going on there as having been done by mad regimes such as the Nazis or Pol Pot and then he blames the Right-Wing Media for taking his remarks out of context. Since his remarks were made in a speech to the U.S. Senate and the text is in the Congressional Record, the context should be clear. (btw, he should be censured, but he shouldn't resign)

We have a group referred to perjoratively as the "Religious Right" by a group whose leaders include Rev Jesse Jackson and Rev Al Sharpton. Are they the "Agnostic Left"? The "Satanic Left"?

California's Gubinator finds his popularity rate plummeting and suddenly he is interested in bi-partisanship.

Everyone thinks that the "Downing Street Memo" is some great big smoking gun, when all it turns out to be is a memo that says that one British Intel official expressed the opinion that President Bush's mind was already made up about going to war with Iraq ahead of time. Hell, the Agnostic (Satanic) Left has been of that opinion all along, what does this intel guy's memo change?

Teri Schiavo's autopsy reveals that her husband was right all along, that the doctors who supported his position were correct and the "Religious Right" who tried and tried to interfere with that case should have just gone back to church and stopped meddling in a case that had already been heard not once, but six times. Maybe Senator Frist will stop trying to diagnose cases from video and spend more time trying to censure Senator Durbin?

Liberals claim that it is conservatives that run negative, nasty campaigns, namecall, etc, but it is on the Majority Report Blogsite that you see a pile of dog feces referred to as a "pile of Bush". They will claim it is done in good humor, but in fact, this is just one example of the latest in six years of insults from these sources aimed at the President. At least they could be honest and admit they are the side of nastiness, but honesty ain't their policy.

Then again, honesty ain't the policy of conservatives either. Otherwise, Tom DeLay would be facing the Ethics music and the wagons are very tightly circled to keep him from going down in flames for his countless ethical lapses.

Will Rogers once called Congress "The best government money can buy". How right he was.