Aggressively Uninformed

There’s been some speculation that Evan Bayh is retiring from the Senate to prepare for a run for President.

Whatever. I won’t believe it until I see him writing on his hand.

It’s obvious that allowing openly gay soldiers to serve would introduce sexual tension, undermining unit cohesion. That’s why we don’t let women serve in the military.

James O’Keefe single-handedly exposed big bad ACORN and their despicable practices of telling complete strangers that pimping is easy. (It ain’t, although there is some debate on the matter.) But then he got himself caught not-very-subtly recording his pals trying to do something-or-other to Sen. Landreiu’s phones. It’s still a little unclear what they were actually trying to do; maybe trying to protect the Senator’s staff from a virulent disease transmitted via dirty telephones?

They’re claiming that they were trying to embarrass/expose her:

Four men charged with trying to tamper with a senator’s phones — including a conservative activist known for targeting ACORN — hoped to record embarrassing hidden camera footage to document allegations her staff was ignoring calls critical of her stance on health care reform, an attorney for one of the four said Thursday.

The theory, I guess, was to disable the office phones and then catch the staff joyously crying out, “Ha ha, those dumbass constituents won’t be able to call us now!” There are two major problems with this. The first is that it’s a really dumb plan. Their hidden camera would be more likely to expose staffers saying “shit, how are we going to order pizza now?” Of course, nobody will ever suspect the guys who just came in and fiddled with the phones, nor the guy recording footage of them on his cell phone. It just seems like kind of a high-risk plan to try to social-engineer your way into an office on the off-chance that staffers will say something you can spin against them.

The second problem, of course, is that Democrats don’t need help embarrassing themselves.

Some people are making a lot of noise about President Obama’s bowing to Emperor Akihito, saying that it shows weakness and deference. I agree. Showing respect is something that pansy socialists do. It’s crucial that our President assert dominance over other cultures, like Bush did with Merkel.