Maybe its the heat.

Record temps across most of the country seems to have brought the cluebats – both right and left – out of hiding. Like roaches scurrying hither and yon who are flushed from underneath the floorboards by applying liberal doses of smoke, the clueless have emerged this week into the light of day, coughing and hacking up their bilious rants and stumbling into one faux pas after another.

My personal favorite would have to be the Lieutenant Governor from the state of Pennsylvania who, not content to waste away in her office enjoying her golden years of senility, wandered the small towns and villages until she found herself at the funeral of a Marine killed in Iraq. Mistaking the gathering of grieving relatives for a Democratic fundraiser celebrating her party’s prospects to maintain control of the state house, she handed out her business card hoping to corral some of the largess being dispensed by the usual suspects at any Democratic party event; mobbed up unions, crooked trial lawyers, and washed up Hollywood actors.

Knowing the best way to get ahead at any event featuring more than two Democrats, she let it be known that the Kingdom of Pennsylvania opposed the war in Iraq. It’s unclear if she ever did figure out that she was at a funeral. She was heard to complain before leaving that the buffet could have been more expansive.

To be fair, she has issued an apology…of sorts. As one wag put it: “When the first words of a personal message are FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, you know it’s a poll-felt communication from a politician.”

Indeedy do.

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
(Albert Einstein)
“Hey Al! You forgot about Michael Moore’s appetite!”
(Me)

Cao of Cao’s Blog (pronounced “key”) sends us something from her “Only in America” department. One of her moonbat commenters, a Stephen Pearcy, has recently received national recognition for one of his less than inspirational pieces of art which depicts a map of the USA and superimposed flag being flushed down a toilet. This “artwork” was not graffiti in some public restroom but rather hung in the cafeteria at the California Department of Justice. Cao has a link to a contest for some counterprotest art in response.

Mr. Satire has done it again. In a definitely not safe for work post (nice pics though) Mr. S. takes a hilarious look at Roman Polanski’s recent libel suit against Vanity Fair. A snip: “After reading the article, I had to re-live the horrible sexual orgies and the decadent culture of sex, drugs and rock’n’roll in the good old days,” said Polanski.

The Peoples Republic of Seabrook gives us our first post about that truly clueless Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo who fancies himself something of a strategic thinker in the War on Terror. How nuking Mecca qualifies as thinking at all escapes me.

More Tancredo from AJ at The Strata-Sphere who wonders whether giving the cluebat this kind of recognition bestows a certain status on his ridiculous comments. Given that most disagree with his sentiments, I have to agree with AJ about his reasons for posting.

The Right Place has a wickedly funny take on a secret meeting held at DNC headquarters last week regarding the nomination of Judge Roberts to the Supreme Court. It’s worth reading if only to hear our illustrious minority leader: NANCY PELOSI: (Steps forward dressed in a ceremonial black robe and holding a tambourine) There is but one “Supreme” power, and SCOTUS is Her Name! {Shakes tambourine}

Don Surbur has some laugh out loud idiocy from his local government. Reading about this kind of cluelessness makes the old saw “He that governs best, governs least” resonate with meaning.

Mark Nicodemo has the honor of being the first to send us a post on Cluebat Hall of Fame member and Special Lifetime Achievement Award winner Jane Fonda whose anti-war “Crisco Tour” of America in a bus that runs on vegetable oil is a joke waiting for a punchline.

Searchlight Crusade has a truly frightening piece on the number and frequency of air space violations since 9/11. Dan Melson takes Congress and the Bureaucracy to task for this failing. Read it and get educated.

The lovely and talented Pamela, the “grrrlll blogger” from Atalas Shrugs wonders what the Iranian Thuggycrats are up to this week and then, in a stroke of inspiration, decides to see what the State of Israel has been up to during the same period. Um…guess who comes out looking like a grown up civilized society and which one looks like a mental institution for paranoids.

The Maryhunter is back from Hoboken and blogging about People for the American Way and their cluelessness about the Roberts nomination. He asks “If not Officially Opposing Roberts, then surely…”
The answer is yes they are opposing Roberts…AND DON’T CALL ME SHIRLEY!

The aforementioned Katherine Baker Knoll, Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, is the target of Van Helsing’s wooden stake this week. What better site to highlight this kind of stupidity than one named “Moonbattery?”

More Knollology from More Than Loans. Tony B. has an excellent riposte to the left who are constantly complaining why Bush never attends the funerals of the fallen.

Flight Pundit has an eye opening blurb on John McCain’s cluelessness regarding the definition of “negligent.” Now if John could only learn how to spell “R-E-P-U-B-L-I-C-A-N and look up in a dictionary what it means he might have a shot in ‘08.

Giacomo of Joust the Facts is in high dudgeon over the way President Bush has been portrayed in a winning entry to a faux William Faulkner contest. Hey! I thought the left didn’t read anything by dead white, anglo-saxon men!

He’s baaaack! Hall of Famer John Kerry is back and Palmetto Pundit has him! In what can only be called a supremely ironic twist of fate, Klueless Kerry is demanding that someone else release documents.

Freedom is busting out all over – and in some of the most unlikely places. Take Yemen for example. Willisms shows why Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh , like most dictators, doesn’t have a clue as to why people should be revolting against his benevolent rule.

Quick! Stop the ACLU! Jay reminds us how this once respected rights group has now degenerated into partisan hackery and support for the enemies of civilization. Does anyone remember Kerensky?

Mean Ole Meany is being…well, mean. To lefties. To “Splodeydopes.”Strike three! Now sit down and shut up.” Yep…that just about covers it.

Parrot Check has a post on some real classy war protesters. Well at least they weren’t dressed in pink underwear while protesting the funeral of a fallen hero. Sayeth Duncan: “And may God convict the souls of those ignorant protesters who, like a flock of vultures, swooped down on a solemn and holy occasion honoring a fallen warrior.” Amen, bruddah.

Mark Coffey at Decision ‘08 has a post about apologists for terror such as Ali Kazak, the head of the General Palestinian Delegation to Australia & New Zealand and Palestinian Ambassador to Vanuatu and East Timor. I think this particular Palestinian has been sipping some of that beetle nut flavored Koolaid.

Minh Duc at State of Flux has a very personal and extremely well written response to John Derbyshire of NRO’s The Corner and his cluelessness about the Army of the Republic of South Viet Nam. Mr. Minh would seem to know of what he speaks. Too bad Mr. Derbyshire doesn’t.

Harvey at Bad Example has a really good example of hate mail gleaned from Blackfive’s site. Harvey: I’m tempted to put a Drink Alert on it – though whether because it’s so funny or because it’s so pig-ignorant, I’ll leave as an exercise for the reader. Grab a brew and enjoy!

Josh Cohen at Multiple Mentality has some ideas for the cluebats who are launching the shuttle today at NASA. Would you go up in a vehicle that had a 1 in 100 chance of blowing up? God how our once mighty space program has fallen!

Finally, here’s my post on the Pentagon’s refusal to turn over Abu Ghraib photographs and tapes to the ACLU and other moonbats.

UPDATE

Don’t forget the Carnival of the Vanities hosted this week at Partie Place.