I don't generally care what the Powerline crowd chooses to bleat on about, on any given day, but
this post from apostropher pretty much sums my feelings up. Here's the snippet from
Powerline:
How Low Will Senate Democrats Sink?
Hugh Hewitt directs our attention to this post by Carol Platt Liebau regarding potential Supreme Court nominee Michael Luttig. Judge Luttig's father was murdered, and liberals may be poised to argue that this fact would render him impermissibly biased in death penalty cases (but doesn't he hear such cases now as a U.S. Court of Appeals judge?) Liebau notes that, "under this reasoning, every potential female justice should be asked whether she's ever had an abortion -- because abortion cases would come up before the Court. And minority candidates would have to discuss how/whether they ever felt discriminated against." Indeed, it would be appropriate to investigate whether, or to what extent, minority nominees have benefited personally from affirmative action.
Are the Senate Democrats dumb enough to make this argument against Luttig?
Okay, so the good folks at Powerline, hot off reading Hugh Hewitt (which pretty much tells you all you need to know about Powerline) proceed to ponder whether or not Senate Democrats will take an absurd argument none of them has mentioned against a man who is only vaguely being mentioned as a possible nominee for a position that isn't even currently open. 'Cause if those Democrats did, that'd be really stupid!
As apostropher commenter John Johnson noted, "Maybe real Senate Democrats aren't pissing off the Powerline folks enough, so they have to get hypothetical Senate Democrats to keep the adrenaline flowing."
Sheesh. To be blunt, this is what really bothers me about the Democratic leadership in the last few elections. We couldn't win against a set of people who spend half their time frantically shooing imaginary pixies away from their faces? Hell, Dean should just go up to them and say something like "Timmy from my fourth grade class told me that if you lick a unicorn, you can see through time." By the time they're done churning through all possible meanings of that phrase, we should be able to take ten Senate seats, twenty House seats, and their entire collection of Star Wars memorabilia.
Second link for a snarky Friday night is Billmon, who is on a tear imagining the next USA Next attacks against the AARP. I'd post the best ones, but they're all the best ones.
And the third comes from TBogg, fresh from exploring -- I sh*t you not -- "Hannidate 2005", Sean Hannity's new online dating service. This guy wins:
I am a good Catholic just like Hannity who believes in strong moral principles and sound judgement. I work way to hard to spend the time to meet new people, and I hope this will be a good way to meet a lovely young woman who loves Christ!!! At the age of 22 I am starting my career as a real estate agent. While my true passion is investing; where my favorite investments are real estate and stocks. Of coarse I own both and intend to expand my efforts. If you are a good conservative christian woman who can appriciate a hard working, kind, and loving man who devotes his life and assperations to Christ then we would be great foreach other.
This is a snark-only open thread.