In yet another example that the folks which make up the Republican Party seem to be operating from a different playbook, the National Rife Association ratcheted up its opposition for SCOTUS nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor while Rush Limbaugh and others criticized President Obama and the Democrats as being against law enforcement.
The evidence according to Oxycontin fiend Limbaugh is Obama, responding to a question in Wednesday's presser, said the actions of Sgt. Crowley and the Cambridge, Mass. police department were stupid. Ergo, the President and the Democratic Party hate law enforcement.
However, if one bothers to apply the same lazy circular logic to the NRA and its Republican allies by extension, the same would also be true.
Follow me below the fold for the IOKIYAR logic:
The NRA sent a STERNLY-WORDED LETTER TM to Harry Reid and his counterpart, Mitch McConnell, threatening Senators that voted to confirm Sotomayor.
In their letter, NRA officials Wayne LaPierre and Chris Cox said they were disturbed that Sotomayor had voted to reject a challenge to New York state's restrictions on the martial arts weapon called nunchakus and to uphold the drug-distribution conviction of an illegal alien found with 1.2 kilos of cocaine base and a pistol. Both the martial-arts advocate and the drug dealer based their arguments on the Second Amendment, which provides that "a well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
And here was what the man caught with enough oxycontin that he was eligible to be prosecuted for trafficking said:
"Last week, we saw white firefighters under assault by agents of Barack Obama and Sonia Sotomayor. Now, white policemen are under assault from the East Room of the White House, by the President of the United States, after admitting he had no -- he didn't know all the facts, what went on in there."
Agents of the White House. Give me a break.
This is, IMO, another classic case of GOP misdirection, much like questioning the citizenship of Obama when John McCain was, by the letter of the law, technically ineligible to run for President.
Isn't the Republican Party supposed to be the Law and Order party? Dude, that was so 1968. I would argue that the title was illusionary because the NRA and its underlings in the GOP care more about guns than law enforcement. If they did, they would support banning assault rifles. Despite arguments to the contrary by NRA zealots, these weapons are not used by hunters.
Daily Kos frontpager BarbinMD has an interesting take on the NRA/GOP gambit:
In other words, a vote for Sonia Sotomayor is a vote against the Second Amendment, the NRA, and possibly apple pie.
Because the Democrats hate baseball (look at those matronly jeans Obama wore to the All-Star game) and the Democrats took over GM so they must hate Chevrolet too.
Still, the entire crux of this opposition can be seen as a distraction to other Republican problems:
Hey, it's no tattered flag, but why shouldn't Senate Republicans rally around an undocumented immigrant who was packing heat while peddling 1200 grams of blow? It will be a nice change of pace from defending their latest C Street colleague.
Snip.
Keeping up with the logic spewed forth by those addicted to RepubliCrack TM, the world's most powerful narcotic, makes my head spin.
This is what I have figured out so far. The GOP, which is against "criminaliens" and "Mexicans" swarming across our Southern border, is backing a convicted drug dealing illegal alien and thus opposing law enforcement. The party's number one druggie, Limbaugh, is on the air claiming the Democrats hate law enforcement, while they defend a real "criminalien" and not an imaginary trumped up version.
It's enough to make my head explode.
Follow the twisted logic of the Republicans, who seem to be trying to get in as many digs on the President as they can in one press release:
The president was slow to point out any wrongdoing in the wake of the Iranian election and his administration was quick to force through a failed stimulus plan even though they 'misread' the economy. This is certainly a questionable rush to judgment coming from a president who hasn't exactly been quick to call out unconscionable behavior by a merciless foreign dictator or gotten his facts straight before advocating a trillion-dollar mistake to address our ailing economy. Is it really presidential for him to cast harsh judgment of a law enforcement official without all the facts?
Got enough criticisms in that one paragraph?
More sweet nothings from the Party of No.