The New McCarthyites

Known supporters of Keep America Safe, a.k.a. Dick Cheney's Get Out of Jail Free card:

• Debra Burlingame
• Dick Cheney
• Liz Cheney
• Erick Erickson
• Justin Germany
• Michael Goldfarb
• Sen. Chuck Grassley
• Sean Hannity (Enjoy the cowardly trembling of Hannity, Liz Cheney, and Rudy Giuliani in the video.)
• Aaron Harison
• William Kristol
• Michelle Malkin
• Andy McCarthy (what are the odds?)
• Mel Sembler
• Marc Thiessen

Next time there is a Republican president, which (if any) of these New McCarthyites will decide whether you are an enemy combatant?

Cheney stays out of jail; meanwhile, you're fucked.  I feel real safe now, don't you? 

Most people don't know this, but the full name of Liz Cheney's group is Keep America Safe . . . for War Criminals.  

Bonus!  Michelle Malkin's "argument" against people like me: 

The predictable cries of “McCarthyism” are rising. The demand for public disclosure is now being characterized as a “witch hunt.” Exactly as the Obama White House would have it: Demonize dissent. Freeze it, personalize it, polarize it.

Say what? 

Michelle, when you locate and make contact with your brain (assuming it exists), do let us know. 

Politics 1, Reason 0

According to Jacob Weisberg, Medicare Part D, passed by Republicans in 2003, will cost $1.2 trillion over ten years and was financed entirely by deficit spending. The Senate health care reform bill costs $848 billion and will not add to the deficit. And yet Republicans are against it. Sen. Charles Grassley is opposed to it on the grounds that it "expands the deficit, threatens Medicare, and does too little to restrain health care inflation." Weisberg infers from these facts that the Republicans' complaints about health care reform are "disingenuous" and he concludes that they are not serious about health care reform. Read Weisberg's piece here. Of course, we all knew this already, but Weisberg's piece is interesting in spite of that fact.

One might also believe that the Democrats aren't serious about health care reform either. The prominent health care reform bills have been so watered down that they barely resemble what many of us had in mind when we dreamed about reform back in January. It is easy to be disappointed in Obama's failure to lead and the Democrats' failure to show real courage and backbone in the Senate and the House. 2010 will be a dark year for Democrats indeed.