Josh Marshall SLAMS Inhofe (OK-Nazi)

[nostamj]

I don't think I can remember a more shameful spectacle in the United States Congress, in my living memory, than the comments  today of James Inhofe, the junior senator from Oklahoma. Clearly, it is part of the RNC talking points now to shift the brunt of the media storm from the abuses themselves to the political storm they've created. But no one that I saw at least rose more naturally to the effort than this man. No one else's heart seemed so matched to the deed, with his snarls at "humanitarian do-gooders" (i.e., the Red Cross) trying to monitor compliance with the Geneva Conventions.

America's greatest moments in the last century came when she tempered power with right and toughened, or sharpened, the edges of right with power -- World War II, then the post-war settlement that framed the Cold War are the clearest, though certainly not the only, examples.

But here you have Jim Inhofe lumbering out of his cave and on to the stage, arguing that we can do whatever we want because we're America. Inhofe's America is one that is glutted on pretension, cut free from all its moral ballast, and hungry to sit atop a world run only by violence. Lady Liberty gets left with fifty bucks, a sneer, a black eye, and the room to herself for the couple hours left before check out.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/

[Bluzmann57]

1. Even though I'm an Iowan

I emailed Senator Inhofe anyway. It may not do any good, as I'm not a constituent, but I thought I'd do it anyway. Maybe more of us should do the same.

[lebkuchen]

2. I telephoned

I'm from CA.

[Classical_Liberal]

8. Inhofe is an Oklahoman.

n/t

[Jacobin]

3. Josh Marshall is my touchstone in these crazy Bush* Days

[nostamj]

4. as my morning posts would suggest

Marshall and Conason (and Krugman)

are mine... (along with the TOONsters, natch!)

don't miss today's Conason! another dead-on column!

[Jacobin]

6. I forgot the most important touchstone

Your Toons!!

I look forward to them!!

Thanks for doing those. I know it takes a lot of time and editing.

:toast:

[nostamj]

7. well, not "my" toons

just my 'collections' of course.

though, it's nice you notice that they are 'edited' and not just dumped randomly into a thread... that part--sequencing/juxaposition--does take more time that the gathering...

[mac56]

5. Another quote from Josh

"(Lindsey) Graham got it exactly right today when he said: 'When you are the good guys, you've got to act like the good guys.'

Another way to put this might be to say that being the good guys is about what you do, not who you are. That's a truth that the architects of this war, in subtler but I suspect more damaging ways, frequently failed to understand."