Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Karl Rove Is Still Omnipotent

It just never ends with these people (via Little Green Footballs):

Yesterday Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) hosted a community forum in Ithaca, New York, on The Future Of Social Security.

Doesn't it figure that the only newsworthy story to come out of such a community forum had nothing remotely to do with Social Security? (Sounds familiar somehow...)

An LGF reader was present in the audience and happened to be recording as Representative Hinchey launched into a barking moonbat conspiracy rant worthy of Democratic Underground, telling the audience he believed the fake CBS memos were planted by Karl Rove to discredit Dan Rather, and divert attention from President Bush’s “draft dodging.”

When our reader asked Hinchey if he had evidence for these charges, he first said, “Yes, I do,” but when asked a second time he admitted he did not.

Paranoid delusions and pathological dishonesty - sounds kinda like Eason Jordan, doesn't it?

Our reader pressed the issue, “Don’t you think it’s irresponsible to make charges like that?” Hinchey replied, “No, I don’t, I think it’s very important to make charges like that ... I think it’s very important to combat this kind of activity in every way that you can, and I’m willing, as most people are not, to step forward in situations like this and take risks.”

Three questions, just for the hell of it:

1) What kind of "activity" did Congressman Hinchey (whose surname is two letters removed from "hiney," BTW...) imagine himself to be combatting?

2) How did his method of "combat" affect something that, if it had ever been possible, much less ever actually took place, would now be nearly six months in the past?

3) What was he "risking"? Looking like one of the inmates in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest? Hell, look at the response he got from the audience:

And the crowd burst into applause and cheering.

Never mind Hinchey - he's obviously got a safe House seat to openly engage in this kind of loony behavior. It's the crowd's reaction that is disturbing. It provides redundant proof that in the Democrat Party, circa 2005, the inmates really are running the asylum.

And someday, perhaps sooner than we think, that Party, run by those people, will regain power over us all.

Hopefully Karl Rove will listen to our prayers, and smite those all those crazy nutbags in two.