Monday, January 16, 2006

Wolf or Hamster?

Ahhh … there’s nothing quite like the sting of a Mark Steyn piece in the morning…

From “Ham-handed Dems didn’t lay a glove on Alito":

Even smear tactics require a certain plausibility. When you damn someone as a big scary mega-troubling racist misogynist homophobe and he seems to any rational observer perfectly non-scary and non-troubling, eventually you make yourself ridiculous. The boy who cried “Wolf!” at least took the precaution of doing so when there was no alleged predator in view. If he’d stood there crying “Wolf!” while pointing at a hamster, he’d have been led away for counseling. That’s the stage the Senate Democrats are at.

Racist misogynist homophobe, indeed. That’s a hamster you’re pointing at, you damned stupid bloviating Democrats! You’re ridiculous!

I wonder if this performance will wake the apparently hibernating voters in Massachusetts, so they’ll vote ABT (anyone besides Ted) next time around? Or are they all bought and paid for?