Weekend Roundup

First there are these two brilliant essays at The American Thinker, one defining the Leftists for who and what they really are, socialists, and the other ripping apart their favorite pastime, 9/11 conspiracy bunk.
Jonathan Gallant writes on that puzzle the Left has become:

What has the American and British Left been doing in recent years? Well, very recently the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq gave them something exciting to demonstrate about, but in the 1990s the lack of a plausible cause did not hold them back. In those days, remember, they were out protesting against the insidious danger of international trade, against the injustice of MacDonald's selling fries to people who wished to buy fries, and against the horrible injustice of ....wait for it...genetically modified plants! These causes represent the spiritual line of 1641, 1789 and 1848? These arguments are the intellectual descendents of the Grand Remonstrance, the Declaration of the Rights of Man, and the Communist Manifesto?

And here Michael Lopez-Obrador takes dead aim at the conspiracy nuts and the baby:

Conspiracy theories have been around for centuries, if not millennia. Conspiracy theories offer explanatory models of complex events to large audiences of the unsophisticated and under-educated. [1] In the past these conspiracy theories gave us rather fascinating alternative explanations of reality or seeming realities that proved entertaining and interesting but ultimately, with a few exceptions, harmless. [2] That cannot be said of our present era.

September 11 conspiracy theories undermine our democratic nation's war against the theocratic forces of radical, Jihadi-driven Islam, and could prove extremely dangerous in the long run. It is these particular conspiracy theories I wish to criticize as well as argue that they are in many ways different from most of the preceding ones.

They both say it so much better than the Barnyard so the goat encourages you to read both essays.They both address what has beeb elected into power of two Houses of power in our National leadership. So far it more resembles the Three Stooges with my apologies to Curly, Larry, Moe and Of couse Shemp. It will be entertaining times for conservative talkers and bloggers and the debates leading into '08 should be the best yet.
Newt will drive the debate on the GOP side and Barack will for the DNC and both have real ideas just Gingrich's and the GOP's are on the table, Obama is faking even running to the right, pulling our tackles, marh my words he will make that crossfield pass a long ways down the left sideline. We have to make sure our safeties can knock it down or intercept it, better yet, he gets sacked by the blitz.
Mitt Romney is still the Dark Horse and my favorite in what looks to be a three man race between John McCain, Rudy Guilliani and Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Duncan Hunter will keep the real issues up front and voice them very well. There is some very real conservative firepower here and it needs to be used wisely to win and win big.
Let's see, on the left we have Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John Edwards, a couple Gov.s, and just about every DNC Senator, this should be a barrel of monkeys to watch. (I'll hear about that one...) Wow, it is a vast political junky's fantasy land with so many foibles and follies it will be difficult to just scratch the surface of it all.
Its gonna be a political hayride for sure and the rig pulling those trailors must be built for some serious mud, horsepower and traction and the ability to handle the torque needed at the end to win.