You see, the problem is, conservatives suffer from an inferiority complex. Being conservative means you're the smartest, best informed, and most knowledgeable person in the room, as Christine O`Donnell was at Widener. She was the only person there that knew The Truth, no implied separation of church and state in the Constitution. But being conservative also means you don't go around embarrassing your opponents in public....as those brats in the audience tried to do to her.

Limbaugh again: "folks, I've been telling you; you better take the gloves off and stop trying to talk sensibly to those Libruls. It's time we started giving as much as we've been taking."

Anyone else hear Limbaugh today?

Reminds me of my main man Easterbrook's constant righteous harping about self-important d*uchebags and their unnecessary security details just so they can look/feel important.

This supports TMQ's contention that nearly all bodyguards supplied to federal, state and even local officials at taxpayer expense are not present to provide safety -- they are present to make the official seem more important. Think what would be the case if the bodyguards were, in fact, needed to provide security. Government would be saying to the public, "We are using your tax money to make ourselves safe, but doing nothing to protect you." If the world is really so dangerous that city council members and mid-level federal officials need bodyguards, then doesn't everybody need a bodyguard?

Of course the world is not that dangerous -- violent crime is in a generation-long cycle of decline. The bodyguards for public officials are strictly to make them seem important, plus allow them to double-park, cut in line, speed in traffic and so on. This nonsense is funded with money forcibly extracted from your pocket.

I was just about to post that.

Talk about a weird situation.  Also

I'm sure you recall the pathetic, whimpering cowardice shown by some Republican politicians when they were called out by R.L.for displaying a perceived, momentary blip of humanity. Maybe it was some mild rebuke to virulent homophobes, or an attempt at cognitive reasoning re: health care......it doesn't matter. After a tongue lashing from R.L, and thousands of hateful threats from "the faithful, Mensa dildos, they invariably slithered back to their comforting dens of insanity and apologized so vehemently, and pathetically that you could only watch open mouthed.

Yup, the depraved denizen of ditto land has once again outdone himself. Now an errant politician who tragically wanders into a nano second of clarity is not simply bludgeoned from afar but summoned, in person, to have the tape containing the lapse into reality played out loud while being ordered to "explain yourself!"
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"Republican Rep. Darrell Issa made a very big mistake. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, he said the following about what Republicans should do if they're successful in the fall elections:
"It's pretty clear the American people expect us to use the existing gridlock to create compromise and advance their agenda," said Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.). "They want us to come together [with the administration] after we agree to disagree."
This is not what Rush Limbaugh wanted to hear. Attacking Issa and other establishment Republicans at the top of today's show, Limbaugh said the idea of compromise would push people away from the GOP and into a third party - and that compromising with the Democrats was akin to compromise with the Taliban.
It appears Limbaugh's audience voiced their concerns to Issa's staff and the congressman was soon a guest of Limbaugh's in order to genuflect.
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I was glad to read that both Professor Hill and Brandies University are taking this whole thing seriously and that the voice mail was turned over to the FBI.

That Ginny Thomas described the voice mail as reaching out to Hill, rather the subtle threat it seemed to be, is just choice. And why now? Clarence Thomas' confirmation was more than two decades ago.