you can show up at my blog, read a handful of posts, and tell me exactly what it is that I think and feel. Amazing, really

Not that amazing at all. I’ve read a number of your posts from the archives and I can reliably guess your take depending on the topic header. If you weren’t so consistently predictable, that wouldn’t be possible. Besides, what are you so upset about? I thought you’d be happy to be a walking liberal talking point. You wouldn’t have a blog otherwise, would you?

You don’t realize the ominous power wielded by Lauren. Not only does she assign fascist homework to underprivileged members of minority groups, she does it while wearing the steel-toed boots of Feminazi oppression. She is The Power in all its thuggish glory.

Jill, on the other hand, is just a tool.

Last time I checked, two private citizens who happen to run a blog are hardly the status quo.

That may get you banned from this set. Speak truth to power, brother… Alas, deaf ears all around.

Where have Lauren or I banned anyone for saying something like that? Please, Rob, do tell.

This is actually the main issue. Everything else is secondary.

Thank you for defining what the issue is for me. I’m glad you’re privvy to all my thoughts and beliefs, to the point where you are able to define what “the main issue” is, when not even I can do that. Kinda like how Bill Frist can diagnose a patient from 2,000 miles away using a webcam — you can show up at my blog, read a handful of posts, and tell me exactly what it is that I think and feel. Amazing, really.

The greater issue, actually, is his position of power and what he does with it — that’s what allows me to focus on him (and, notably, I don’t even write about GWB all that much… scan the last month or two of posts and I think that’ll be clear enough). Yes, he does what he does because he’s a right-wing godbag fetus fetishist, but the difference between him and your average right-wing fetus fetishist is that when he makes idiotic decisions, they actually cause a whole lot of harm.

And there’s also the issue that he’s a right-wing godbag fundie, and I’m very liberal.

This is actually the main issue. Everything else is secondary.

The UN is organized crime for the international set. They are bought and sold by mass murderers.

That may get you banned from this set. Speak truth to power, brother… Alas, deaf ears all around.

Based on ideology alone, I have no reason to believe this is true. But it sounds good, gives off the impression of evenhandedness.

I’ve criticized Clinton here and on my old blog for the mess he made of welfare reform. I’ve said he really fucked up with Rwanda. I’ve criticized Hillary for her occassional sell-outs to the far right. I’m not a blind follower of the Democratic party. Hell, I’ve criticized Nick Kristoff in the past, and I love him. Do I criticize any of them as often as I criticize Bush? Of course not. First, Bush is currently in power, so he’s able to screw up bigger and better than any Democrat right now. And there’s also the issue that he’s a right-wing godbag fundie, and I’m very liberal. Naturally, we aren’t gonna see eye-to-eye. And I never said I’m evenhanded.

That said, the argument “But you don’t criticize Clinton!” is a silly one no matter how you slice it.

The Hyde amendment (I think it is) is very nice window-dressing, but economically it doesn’t stop our $ from going to abortions. The only way to do that is not to give money to any organization that is connected to abortion. Money is fungible.

Well, yeah, and that’s what the Bush administration has done with the Global Gag Rule, which cuts funds to any organization that so much as mentions the word abortion. No organization can receive U.S. funds if they pay for abortions with their own non-U.S. money, if they counsel women about abortion as a legal option, or if they lobby their own governments for reproductive rights. It couldn’t apply in this country, because it violates the First Amendment.

I have too much to say on this, so I’m turning this comment into another post. See above in a few minutes.