wingnuttery
I'm so old I remember getting lectures about how the Republicans were the Party Of Ideas. ...see also.
To state the obvious, this non-action is awful both on the merits (making the permanent extension of Bush's upper-class tax cuts more likely) and as politics (name me the district.
Essentially all quotes -- whether of text or video excerpts or whatever -- are literally "out of context." If you're going to try to imply that a quotation or excerpt.
Evan Bayh: "[t]here's no bigger deficit hawk in Congress than I am." So, of course, he must favor letting Bush's unpopular upper-class tax cuts expire, right? Ha ha, just kidding..
Shorter Gerard Alexander: If someone with Haley Barbour's impeccable credentials as a civil rights activist tells a transparently ridiculous story about how race had nothing to do with the GOP.
And, actually, the New Criterion's effort may be very hard to top; the logic is turbid and the anonymous author's heart fairly oozes tenebrosity. Indeed, the pompousness-to-intelligence ratio is so.
If I understand Krauthammer correctly, I think I have to conduct a public opinion survey before I can decide whether or not this is racist. Omitted from the former: an.
Royce Lamberth is the kind of judge -- because of his crusades and inflammatory pronouncements on behalf generally but not exclusively reactionary positions -- who.