Donna Brazile: Losing Kennedy's seat a gift

By GottaLaff

I've looked for the video, but can't find it yet, so here's the text:

“John, we lost a very important seat, a very important vote,” Democratic strategist Donna Brazile told CNN Chief National Correspondent John King Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union.

“It’s a disappointment,” Brazile also told King. “It hurts like hell. I can’t tell you how much it hurts. But, it’s also a gift. If we learn the lessons to get back to the basics, to deliver for the American people the change we promised them in 2008.”

Of course, then a "compassionate conservative" showed what a big, fat, oozy heart he has with this Very Special Comeback:

“Well, maybe we can find more under the tree,” Bill Bennett, the host of conservative talk show “Morning in America,” said in response to Brazile. “If that’s the gift, then we want to keep on giving,” the conservative commentator added.

Bill has such a flair for ooze.

Brazile:

“This is not a defeat that should cause Democrats to become demoralized or to begin to fail in their pledge to change the country. This is an opportunity,” Brazile said Sunday.

Now that's heart we can believe in.

Bill Bennett: Whitewashing Terrorism

By GottaLaff

My pal Karoli has a post up about Bill Bennett's disappointment in Major Nidal Malik Hasan’s non-terrorist status.

First, Karoli gives us three different definitions of "terrorism":

In those three definitions, there are two common threads: politics and the victims.

Then she defines what terrorism isn't:

Simply put: age, gender, race, religion, or IQ of the attacker.

Bennett does his little rantette, to which Karoli responds:

Laser sight aside, the fact of Hasan’s religion and obviously Arabic name does not automatically toss him into terrorist territory.

Larisa Alexandrovna and I got attacked for holding views very similar to Karoli's. This is what happens when one doesn't fall in line with the hatriots. Karoli puts it this way:

The very worst spin you can realistically place on this attack is that it was an act of war on a United States military installation. [...] [T]here have been no clear statements that what he did was anything other than a selfish, deranged, tragic act of violence.

Even if one accepts the premise that he acted to make some sort of statement about being shipped to Afghanistan or the Afghanistan war itself (which is weak and unsupported at this stage), it’s still not an act of terror because it was a military officer doing violence on a military installation.

And finally:

One of the reasons that the civilian/military distinction is so utterly crucial is because acts of terrorism are intended to frighten civilians into silent acquiescence. They are intended to force a specific set of religious or world views on an entire populace. They are intended to make civilians, who are NOT fighting wars, afraid. Hence the term, terror. [...]

This is why Randall Terry’s abortion doctor jihad, abortion clinic bombings, and cold-blooded shootings of abortion doctors like Dr. Tiller are terrorist acts.

This is why people who put up signs threatening war and assassination of our President are terrorists.

In the last two examples, the jihadists are white as snow, American as applie pie, good ‘guns, god and gold’ types. [...]

We all have fear. The challenge is overcoming it, not putting it into a box called “terrorism”.

Hatriots tend to march in lock step, put things into boxes, and that is truly terrifying. Independent thought is their Kryptonite.

Please go read the rest of Karoli's excellent post here.

Bill Bennett on "disloyalty" to Bush: "Satan chews on their bodies"

By GottaLaff

Oh, the irony, considering BushCo's disloyalty to America in general and the U.S. Constitution specifically:

"The lowest circle of hell are for people who are disloyal in the way this guy is disloyal and the very lowest point Satan chews on their bodies. Maybe Scott McClellan will chew on this guy's leg in the after life. So creepy and so disgusting."

-- Bill Bennett, quoted on CNN, about former Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer and his new tell-all book, Speech-less.

Speaking of creepy and disgusting...

Video- State of the Union: Did Palin make the right move?

Bill Bennett is the sole holdout on Sar not flaming out, and even Huckabee and Rove think she screwed up.

Former Bush adviser Karl Rove and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee both seemed to be scratching their heads over Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's decision to resign her office in an appearance along with Alaska Lt. Gov Sean Parnell on "Fox News Sunday."

Rove said, "I'm a little perplexed," since "she's not going to be able to escape media attention."

And Huckabee deemed it "a risky strategy," adding that "if she did get out because of a feeling of getting chased, that's not going to stop if she stays in politics."

He also questioned the way the resignation was announced, saying, "You don't call a press conference to create questions, you call one to resolve them."

Bill Bennett bashes CNN, but says, "We all praise Barack Obama"

By GottaLaff

The Republicans are falling all over themselves about Sarah Palin's 17-year-old, unmarried, pregnant, unmarried, pregnant, unmarried daughter, Bristol. They refuse to discuss so much as the general issue of birth control. Watch as Bill Bennett goes all apoplectic on us:


Note from Paddy- Oh, and don't forget that "Mrs Bennett" (as he freaking calls his own wife) is a purveyor of abstinence only classroom materials with iffy dealings.