Rush Week

Well, gosh, that's a surprise. Democrats vote to condemn Rush.

[Rush] said the attacks aren't really about him personally. "It's about them and they are desperately trying to salvage themselves with their own lunatic fringe base who they are not only disappointing but they are deceiving because the dirty, little secret, as I also predicted, was that if the Democrats win the White House in '08 they are not pulling out of Iraq. All the top tier Democrats have said so," Limbaugh told his audience.

They've just made this man stronger than he ever was. Prediction: this is prologue to the Dems re-launching the Fairness Doctrine stuff they were getting all crazy about earlier this year. They have no other choice if they're to survive politically.

It was an oddly guilty sense of curiosity that got me reading and listening to conservative stuff in the first place when I was a liberal. (It felt like discovering pornography as a teen.) Unlike that analogous experience however, the facts and logic of the conservative argument started to sink in. We should be so lucky if this peels off even a few morbid rubber-neckers who want to see for themselves what all the shouting is about.

UPDATE: Here's a random thought: What if the buffoonery and impotence of this Congress is to the 2008 election what Jimmy Carter's presidency was to the 1980 one?