You couldn’t parody his paleo-liberal column today. All government spending is good. But deficits are always bad! Tax cuts hurt – wait for it – children. Republicans – even if they try to reach out to black voters – are always evil. Marian Wright Edelman is such an unimpeachable figure, you just have to cite her to make your point. And then the moronic headline: “Suffer The Children.” This piece of hate was particularly noticeable:
The Bush men, father and son, are seldom more cynical than when they get it into their mischievous heads to rev up some support among black people. George the First could hardly contain a devilish smile as he gave us Clarence Thomas, a gruesome acolyte of Antonin Scalia who has spent much of his time on the Supreme Court taking a pickax to black interests.
Note the utter absence of any understanding of judicial reasoning. Note the monolithic notion of “black interests,” as if every black person has the same interests, dictated by people like Bob Herbert and the NAACP. Notice that appointing the first black secretary state and relying on a black woman as the critical figure in foreign policy is mere mischief and cynicism. As if deploying Bob Herbert to keep black voters in line with warmed-over propaganda weren’t as cynical a move as one could possibly get.
The Dish 