Drive-By Donkings

Ted Kennedy has done a thorough lifetime's job of self-embalming; even his hypocrisy is too hopelessly pickled to succumb to entropy's ravages.

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Here's the latest example of why it is impossible to parody Cindy Sheehan (h/t CQ):

O'Donnell: Would you rather live under Hugo Chavez than President George Bush?

Sheehan: Uh, yes.

There can be no more double entendres after that one. Mother Sheehan, much like every mirror that has met her gaze, has broken the mold.

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Speaking of scary women that are beyond lampooning....:

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement on the missiles launched by North Korea:

"The missile launches by North Korea are provocative acts that warrant the strong condemnation of the United States and international community.

"North Korea is moving outside the circle of acceptable behavior and is threatening the region, the United States, and the world. We must use every possible tool to stop North Korea’s unacceptable, provocative actions including six party, multilateral, and bilateral diplomatic negotiations.

"North Korea must know without a doubt that their behavior will not be tolerated."

We must use every possible tool to stop North Korea's unacceptable, provocative actions, but only the ones that have failed miserably for the past twelve years.

What's going to convince Kim jong-Il to start taking us seriously at this late date? Is Crazy Nancy going to threaten to date him?

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Looks like Senator Hairplugs has started plagiarizing Robert Byrd:

During a conversation with an Indian-American political activist, Biden said: "In Delaware, the largest growth of population is Indian-Americans, moving from India. You cannot go to a 7/11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking."

You know, I may owe Senator Kleagle an apology - Slow Joe may have been ripping off two other of his Senate colleagues:

Dr. Raghavendra Vijayanagar, popularly known in the Indian-American community as "Dr. Vijay," said this isn't the first time a Senate Democrat has insulted Indian-Americans.

"In 2004, Senator John Kerry referred to Sikhs as terrorists and Senator Hillary Clinton jokingly referred to Mahatma Gandhi as a gas station owner," Dr. Vijay said. "A clear double-standard in the mainstream media will likely ensure Senator Biden gets a pass over these comments that would get a Republican in deep trouble if he ever made a similar statement.”

At least Biden didn't add the Kwik-E-Mart to his offending remark. Otherwise when he swung by for a campaign photo-op (kind of like John Kerry going to that Wendy's in 2004) Apu Nahasapeemapetilon's squishees might start tasting funny.

Alright, funnier....

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This is what passes for intelligent political discourse on the port side of the blogosphere (h/t Instapundit):

Hamsher replied to [Ann] Althouse's post about civility in public discourse by calling her an idiot and portraying her as a baboon. And then she portrays Senator Barbara Boxer as a baboon as well. Senator Barbara Boxer! About as liberal a Senator as can be found. Truly amazing. Boxer's sin: stumping for her fellow Democratic Senator, Joe Lieberman.

The funniest part is, in the course of proving Althouse's point in spades, Hamsher is probably airtightly convinced that she nailed her own. That, and the fact that Boxer is closer to a Rhesus monkey than a baboon (metaphorically speaking, of course), although she does have the feces-throwing part down pat.

Gotta like Bull Moose's observation, with one slight correction:

Over and over again, the lefty bloggers contend that their major objective is not an ideological one but rather a partisan one. They claim that they want to win. Badly. The Moose begs to differ. It is not the goal of the left to prevail, but rather to purify.

Make that "ideologically cleanse" and you've hit the bullseye.

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But then the Deaniacal, Kos-hack extremists are too submerged in their own hatreds to realize that they're still in a democracy rather than a Chavista dictatorship. And while the Dems have Senator Barack Obama running around echoing Dr. Demented's laughably empty urgings to "reach out" to evangelical voters, polls keep showing that the nutroots are kneecapping ol' BO:

The headlines covering a recent Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll, which was conducted in late June, focused largely on the troubling statistic that revealed 35% of respondents would not vote for a Mormon for President of the United States. Religious bigotry, while a shadow of its former self, still lurks around electoral corners.

But as if that information were not disturbing enough, some statistics from the same poll have received less attention but appear nevertheless to invalidate the American left's affectations of religious tolerance and pious political correctness.

According to the survey, 37% of self-identified liberals would vote against an evangelical Christian candidate for president; 38% of self-identified liberal Democrats would do so. Democrats as a whole are significantly more likely to vote against an evangelical Christian candidate for president - over a quarter (28%) - than either Republican or Independent voters. And barely a majority (53%) of all Democrats would vote for an evangelical candidate for president.

Imagine a survey that showed identical percentages of GOP voters declaring they would vote against any African-American presidential candidate. Think that'd make news?

Once again, we see that some bigotries are worse - and more actual - than others. That it can be so unwitting is, in my view, the biggest parody of all.