From Mickey Kaus at the Daily Beast: “It’s not because Breitbart was combative.” Of course it isn’t. It’s because he was a conservative, and an unapologetic one. Somewhere in my archives, which I’m still having trouble accessing, is a collection of “liberal” commentary on Tony Snow’s death that I caught as word came in that he’d succumbed to his cancer [update: found here. Thanks to golem14]. The outpouring of hate

Oh, yeah. We’re well on our way to repealing ObamaCare. I mean, can’t you just feel the conservative energy from the GOP leadership! The ideological commitment? It’s morning in America, people. CHARGE!

A brief response, if I may, to dicentra’s post below: I doubt there’s a single unvarnished truth in the whole of Ms Fluke’s hamfisted emotional appeal. Including about the real identity and motivation of the woman giving the testimony (who as it turned out went to Georgetown specifically to challenge First Amendment rights of the Jesuits with respect to her desire to have her contraceptives provided for her through them).

Hey, anyone want to talk about Fluke’s actual testimony? It’s a pretty target-rich environment even without the “slut” angle (all emphases mine): Without insurance coverage, contraception can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school. For a lot of students who, like me, are on public interest scholarships, that’s practically an entire summer’s salary. Forty percent of female students at Georgetown Law report struggling financially as a result of this

Here are a couple three Tweets of mine you’re free to steal and pass around. This whole thing’s been a surreal joke anyway. May as well go with the flow, right?

Can our candidate stand up, face the American people, and tell the truth about Barack Obama? Can we win if our candidate says hard, true things about Barack Obama? Can we win if we don’t say these true things about Obama? That one is not rhetorical. Of course not. We lose before we start if we accept battle within our opponent’s distorted construct of media reality. We must say the

And by “stunner,” I think what was meant was, “predictably”. A few days back I noted that, in their push to lend their new ginned-up martyr Sandra Fluke credibility and gravitas, the Washington Post inadvertently told us just who this supposed “courageous” Silkwood of the spermicidal sponge really is — namely, a reproductive rights advocate who came to Georgetown with the express purpose of pressuring the Jesuit university into doling

“BREAKING: Mitt Romney Urged Obama to Embrace the Individual Mandate.” On the national level. And in direct contradiction to the defense of RomneyCare he’s been running on. Somewhere in the cold of Connecticut, Ann Coulter is lying back, thinking of England. (h/t newrouter)

Here’s the thing: Rick Santorum defends the earmark process, so while you can attack him for taking earmarks, you’re attacking something he defends as part of doing business in DC. And as I’ve pointed out before, there are strong conservative arguments for earmarks, particularly in the absence of line-item vetoes. What you shouldn’t do, however, is attack people for taking government funds, then get caught on tape bragging about just