Right Wing Nut House

I don’t ordinarily write about criticism leveled at me by another blogger. That way lies madness - not to mention idiotic flame wars that solve nothing and get enormously tiresome after a while. Besides, given the amount of flack thrown my way by liberal bloggers just for the name of this site, I’d be at it until next Christmas. Somehow, they all think they’re being original thinkers when they say something profound like “Duhhhhh Rightwing Nuthouse…How appropriate heheheheh…” Now if they could only learn to close their mouths and breathe through their noses, that would be an intellectual triumph for which they could write home to their mothers about.

I don’t know exactly what it is about this particular moonbat’s criticism that set me off. Maybe it was the sheer idiocy of it. Maybe it was the double blind partisan hackery for which this particular blogger is justly famous. Or maybe that I’m getting a thin skin in my old age and all the criticism I’ve gotten from conservatives lately has led to something building up inside me until I just can’t hold it in any longer and I just have to explode into a righteous rant of unreasoning fury.

Last evening, I wrote a pretty straightforward analysis of the NSA hearings as I saw them. I didn’t indulge myself much in the way of partisanship. In fact, I wrote that most of the Democratic Senators asked some tough questions that Gonzalez had a hard time addressing. I also wrote that Gonzalez gave a good account of himself, especially in his opening statement. In short, aside from some penetrating political analysis about where the Dems scored and the fact that there’s trouble down the road for the White House if the Committee calls some Department of Justice dissenters whose concerns about the program were addressed by former AG Ashcroft when the program was just getting started, my piece probably wasn’t much different than what you’d find on just about any other serious conservative’s website.

Imagine my surprise when I discovered that this lickspittle lefty of a blogger took that post and blatantly misrepresented both the tone and thrust of it:

Truly, this controversy is less about security than it is about faith. I offer this example from Right Wing Nut House [emphasis added]:

AG Gonzalez acquitted himself well but was at a huge disadvantage. Because of the secrecy of the program, he was unable to reveal details that could have buttressed his case that the Administration’s warrantless interception of American citizen’s communications was inherently legal based on both exceptions to the FISA statute and the authority granted by the President by Congress when that body authorized the use of military force after 9/11.

Such a beautifully pure faith makes one want to weep. If only it weren’t so misplaced.

First of all, it’s clear Mr. Maha never read the post. Or if he did, he chose to deliberately misrepresent what I wrote. But what is really telling is that he, along with all but a handful of lefty bloggers have decided without knowing more than the surface details of how the NSA intercept program actually works that the President has broken the “law” and should be impeached.

This is, on its face, idiocy. And I would say exactly the same thing of righty bloggers who make the opposite claim - that there’s no doubt that the program was legal and constitutional. To say that the intercept program does or does not violate FISA or that it absolutely falls under or absolutely doesn’t fall under the President’s legitimate exercise of his power under Article II of the Constitution is equally batty. No one knows. And the reason, Mr. Maha, that no one knows is because of its secrecy! To call that self-evident fact “faith” is to reveal not only a towering, deliberate ignorance on your part but a casual kind of stupidity one would expect to see from a 15 year old whose linear thinking is dominated by thoughts of ice cream and sex.

It doesn’t seem to enter into the heads of lefties like Maha that there is even a controversy over whether or not the law has been violated. Instead of a classic argument involving the separation of powers with a concomitant subtle exercise in critical thinking, what we get from blowhards like Maha is “neener neener neener” and other deep thoughts.

I would love to see this controversy treated seriously by both sides. But since the Democrats seem hell bent on trying to make political hay out of it (a losing proposition I might add), it seems pretty clear that nothing will be resolved and no great questions of Presidential vs. Congressional power answered. This is what serious people are talking about Mr. Maha. And as long as anal retentive lefties like you continue to run around with blinders on, no one - certainly not the American people - are going to take you seriously. There’s a reason you lose election, after election, after election. It’s because it’s impossible to give a party power where a sizable portion of it - yourself included - is so hell bent for leather on “getting” the President that you look like escapees from an institution for the criminally insane rather than rational members of the “reality based community” you are always bragging about belonging to.

–end rant–

UPDATE

Just found out that “Mr.” Maha is actually a woman. At least I think it is. Anyway, let this be a lesson to you. To paraphrase Bill Murray when talking to the groundhog while making his getaway in the stolen truck “Don’t write angry…”