Pushing your buttons....

I present to you all a political/philosophical Rorschach test:

Here's two links, both from the same site, each one a semi-humorous hypothetical on offing a statist politician. One on running over Bill Bennett, the other on drowning Ralph Nader.

Does the thought of either offend you? And why?


For the record, I got a grin at both...

"the Hammer" about to be hammered

Indictment. When applied to the right people, it becomes such a wonderful word. Say it with me now: "indictment"...

A Texas grand jury on Wednesday indicted Rep. Tom DeLay and two political associates on charges of conspiracy in a campaign finance scheme, forcing the House majority leader to temporarily relinquish his post. A defiant DeLay insisted he was innocent and called the prosecutor a "partisan fanatic."

"I have done nothing wrong. … I am innocent," DeLay told a Capitol Hill news conference during which he criticized the Texas prosecutor, Ronnie Earle, repeatedly. DeLay said the charges amounted to "one of the weakest and most baseless indictments in American history."

Republicans selected Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., the current Republican whip No. 3 in the leadership ranks to fill the vacancy temporarily.

Well, that's one down, still got hundreds to go...

Not what we had in mind...

Equality?

A woman strapped with explosives blew herself up outside an Iraqi army recruiting center in a northern town Wednesday, killing at least six people and wounding 30 in the first known attack by a female suicide bomber in the country's bloody insurgency.

Us yanks are cheap

...when it comes to things that do not concern us, that is:

An extraordinary appeal to Americans from the Bush administration for money to help pay for the reconstruction of Iraq has raised only $600 (£337), The Observer has learnt. Yet since the appeal was launched earlier this month, donations to rebuild New Orleans have attracted hundreds of millions of dollars.

The public's reluctance to contribute much more than the cost of two iPods to the administration's attempt to offer citizens 'a further stake in building a free and prosperous Iraq' has been seized on by critics as evidence of growing ambivalence over that country. (emphasis mine)

Props to Thomas Woods for that one.

Attempting a Bush reading...

What Bush said:

President Bush hinted on Monday that his next nominee for the Supreme Court would be a woman or a minority, saying that "diversity is one of the strengths of the country."

What we know from this:
Apparently he's resisting the urge to nominate Luttig, out of a belief that his nominee will get through easier if it's a woman, a minority, or both.

What I wish this meant:
Janice Rogers Brown, the closest thing to an acceptable justice that Bush could ever put on the highest Court.

What it probably meant: A crony to the bible-thumping statist-quo...