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March 29, 2007

Of obfuscation and centrism

There's scuttle brewing in the rightosphere over Senator Dianne Feinstein's resignation from a Military Construction Appropriations Committee due to potential conflict of interest.

Whether or not the story is legitimate, I'm unaware. If Feinstein is dabbling in corruption then she should be treated like any other bad apple--investigate her and toss her ass out if need be.

But the money quote in the blog piece shows how out of whack the righty blogs are:

This is genuine news. Political corruption on a scale as big as Duke Cunningham, and the mainstream press is worried about 8 US attorneys losing their jobs in a completely legal hard-ball political axing-session.

Dumping select US attornies who wouldn't play political ball with the President isn't okay. Anybody with two scruples to rub together knows this. Its a Nixonesque impeachable offense of one of the higher degrees.

Trying to obfuscate and justify by tossing out charges against Feinstein shows just how lacking in moral courage these toadies really are.

And speaking of toadies, I was derided by readers of Q and O awhile back for calling out one of their bloggers who groused about "anti-war" agendas--as if that's a bad thing.

The crux of the complaints rested upon the notion that the blog itself is a champion of "centrist" ideas and that the writer in question had criticized Bush on torture, thus making him a centrist.

I happened to click over their way this morning, the same author babbling about such nonsense as this Feinstein stuff (and apparently got the same memo as the other righty blogs--because he's using the Gonzales/US attornies defense).

There may be some people out there who can legitimately say that they are in the constantly shifting political center. I haven't met them yet--but its a possibility that they're out there. This blog and this author aren't it. Not even close.

Posted by Carla at March 29, 2007 08:16 AM