Sometimes I like to take a gander at the Kossites for a good laugh, or to get my blood boiling.. sometimes for both. Some posts and comments are so void of intellect they aren’t worth more than a glance, but today I saw one that I just had to reply to. The post was about spending more money on Iraq, and this particular comment was a parody of Bush on Social Security. Here’s what the commenter said:

Ya see (none / 1)

we have to get rid o’ Social Security. Not because we want to. Just cuz we have to make a sacrifice to protect our freedoms and our liber-muh-ties. There’s no money, people. When you don’t have money, you can’t have programs. We have to prioritize. And right now, Freedom and democracy are the highest priorities. But, don’t worry. We’ll just get rid of it for a bit. In the meantime, try one of these personal, private account thingamajigs.

- George W Bush, speaking to the people, January 2007

This was too good to pass up. I couldn’t resist. It’s like driving by a car wreck and not looking out the window - you just have to. So I replied (yes, I have a Kos username, but only to reply to such asinine comments and stir up the pot):

Get Rid of SS? (none / 0)

That’s funny, I haven’t heard Bush advocationg getting rid of Social Security. In fact, if you noticed it was the Democrats who (shamefully) cheered at the State of the Union for obstructing reform that would help rectify the black hole that Social Security is going into.

You don’t get it, do you? The Social Security “Trust Fund” isn’t there. It’s been raided by politicians of both parties for years, and is nothing more than IOU’s.

I don’t know about you, but if I see a fund that is supposed to be coming back to me, and politicians are having a field day spending that moeny on other programs, a private account with my own control over it sounds much more preferable.

But of course Bush and the bloodthirsty Republicans are advocating it, so it can’t be a good idea. Right.

I left the site, looked around a few other blogs and news sources as is my typical routine, then came back to this post to see if any Krazies had responded with dripping hatred to my comment. That’s when I noticed something strange. My comment had dissappeared. I’m not making this up - the people who run DailyKos deleted my comment because they didn’t agree with it. Unbelievable, huh? A site that constantly accuses the media of being biased (which it is.. but not against the Left as they claim in between curse words), that is part of an emerging blog community dedicated to free speech, removed my comment because they didn’t like it.

I was expecting to be flamed, to have to endure the unfortunate wrath of Kossites hurling epithets at me (still cursing every other word) while screaming bloody murder at the top of their lungs. But why do that when it’s so much easier to erase a dissenting opinion?

I re-posted the comment. We’ll see if it gets noticed and removed again.

Here’s the thread.

UPDATE: My comment was removed again. See Comments for a lefty’s justification of the removal in the name of convenience, and his lame attack on Bush’s Social Security reform.

Thomas Sowell wrote a great article highlighting the problems facing black republicans and conservatives in general, and no, it is not Democrats……it is yellow belly RINOs.

A promising new black political figure is emerging in Ohio — Ken Blackwell, a solid, pro-life conservative who has fought for lower taxes. He is seeking the Republican nomination for governor of Ohio and polls indicate that he has substantial support. Unfortunately, Ohio’s Republicans are a lot like Ohio’s Democrats — both are for higher taxes. On this and other issues, Blackwell is described in the current issue of City Journal as “often at war with his own party as well as the Democrats.”
“When Republicans from time to time try to reach out to blacks, they tend to do so ineptly, if not ridiculously. For reasons unknown, they seem to want to appeal to black voters in the same ways that Democrats appeal to black voters, by adopting a liberal stance. Why would anyone who wants liberalism go for a Republican imitation when they can get the real thing from Democrats? Republicans do not have a snowball’s chance in hell of winning the votes of liberal blacks.”