Check out this amazing piece of literature from our friends at Daily Kos concerning the Alito confirmation. In it, “Armando” claims that the media are the Democrats’ enemy (!) and that the Dems on the Senate Judiciary Committee didn’t realize this while questioning Alito. The most astonishing part of this scholarly post is here:

To me the ugliest moment of the entire process happened yesterday:

Mr. Byrd said his constituents had told him they were “appalled” by the harsh questioning Judge Alito received from the Senate Judiciary Committee at his confirmation hearings, calling them “an outrage and a disgrace.”

Outrageous statement from Byrd. Despicable in fact. Byrd is certainly entitled to his view on Alito, and I criticize him for that, but do not condemn him for it. But I do condemn for his lies about the hearings. There was nothing outrageous about the questions put to Alito. The only disgrace here is Byrd’s slander and lie.

Moreover, Byrd’s speech was the epitome of sophistry and delusion. Deluding himself or us, I do not know. [Empasis mine]

Of course Armando would know more than Byrd, an experienced Senator, concerning traditional practices of the Senate. Of course this ultraleft-wing crazy finds Byrd “despicable,” because the Senator has committed the grave crime of sounding logical. But I digress.

As Mike pointed out in the comments section the other day about the gruesome and disturbing Kos post on abortion, one wonders how an illogical person thinks and how they can possibly justify what we all know is insanity. Here is another fine example.

Excellent piece on Ken Blackwell and his gubernatorial bid in Ohio. Can you believe it? He’s running as a true Conservative. GASP!! (And he’s winning)

Right now, Ken Blackwell stands at a pivotal point in American politics. He’s taken an early lead in the race for governor of a state that was key to reelecting George W. Bush and that may well be even more crucial in picking the next American president. Moreover, Blackwell has built his early lead not by tacking toward the center of this swing state but by running on an uncompromisingly conservative platform that’s won him grassroots support from both Christian groups and taxpayer organizations—a novel coalition that makes the old-boy network in his own Ohio GOP as uneasy as it makes the state’s Democrats, who have begun a “stop Blackwell” campaign.

Ken Blackwell has so many people worried because he represents a new political calculus with the power to shake up American politics. For Blackwell is a fiscal and cultural conservative, a true heir of the Reagan revolution, who happens to be black, with the proven power to attract votes from across a startlingly wide spectrum of the electorate.

Ken Blackwell represents the only chance the Republicans have in Ohio,” says Paul Weyrich, who headed the Heritage Foundation, where Blackwell was an analyst in 1990. Weyrich, who calls Blackwell one of the few extraordinary individuals he has met in 50 years of public service, says that, without him on the ticket, Ohio Republicans “are going down the tubes big-time for what they’ve done there.”

What they’ve done since capturing the statehouse more than a decade ago is to engage in a flurry of taxing and spending that has left the state’s budget swollen and its economy deflated. Under GOP rule, state and local government spending from 1995 through 2004 rose nearly 20 percent faster than the personal income of Ohio’s residents—almost three times the national growth rate. To pay for such splurges, current governor Bob Taft, in conjunction with the Republican-dominated state legislature, heaped on some $350 million in tax increases in 2001, then followed with a host of new levies the following year, prompting the Cato Institute’s annual survey of governors to deplore his “disastrous fiscal record” and award Taft a failing grade. “About the only good news to report is that Bob Taft is term limited and cannot run for office again,” the Cato report declared.

Tax and spend Republicans in Ohio? I thought only the Republicans in my state of Pennsylvania were like that. Having previously lived in Ohio, I can attest to the ugly economic climate the RINO party has created there. Clearly, Blackwell must win in order to rescue the Republican Party in Ohio. Ohio is too important and too pivotal for the people there to distrust the GOP in 2008.

–It looks like Sen. Kerry is trying to get the filibuster bandwagon moving on Alito. If not a filibuster, expect shennanigans.

–I was skeptical about Stephen Harper until Al Gore took a swing. I’m loving what I’ve heard about the Alberta firewall plan too.

–Helen Thomas is crabby, apparently Pres. Bush doesn’t treat her as nicely as Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush the Elder, or Clinton did.