Overreach

Sully on the Right's overreach:

The Ohio law against collective bargaining rights for public sector workers did not just go down. it went down in a landslide. Yes, the unions poured money into the battle and outspent opponents. But the scale of the victory is hard to gainsay. In a critical swing state, the GOP is in full retreat. In Arizona, the recall of the official who had pioneered the anti-illegal immigration measures is another remarkable event. Ditto even Mississippi's rejection of a ballot initiative that is a theocon's wet dream (if theocons are allowed such things), and takes the concept of personhood at conception to new, bizarre heights and exposes the stealth theocon campaign against contraception as well.

See how quickly it has taken the Right to, as Whoopi Goldberg would say, "show it's ass."  No restraint, no brains, no thought at all. They've become the equivalent of white idiots in the South dumping eggs on black kids trying to sit at the Woolworths counter; if you just wait a few minutes, they'll do something so over-the-top asinine it's almost impossible to not have the masses of even quasi-normal people go "whoa-whoa-whoa...that's too much."  I mean, they pushed MISSISSIPPI into deciding life doesn't start with "how YOU doin'?" REALLY? Sometimes you need full-on insanity to remind you where sanity is.  As I wrote a few years ago:

In other words, we NEED these jackoffs on the air every day, spewing nonsense that repels the average person who doesn't lean extremely hard one way or the other. I would say these talk show hosts are akin to the people that brought violence upon activists during the Civil Rights movement. Some black people trying to sit at a lunch counter or walk across a bridge in 1965 isn't really gonna move the average white person who hasn't really thought about such things in anything more than a curious, just trying to get through the day, onlooker kind of way. But if jagoff lunatics start showing up and breaking eggs on heads or releasing dogs on black kids while swinging baseball bats, that white person might think "whoa whoa, that's too much...I'm can't be down with that." As awful as it was, the movement NEEDED this opposition of violence, and the bat-swinging racists et al played their part perfectly in prying loose the indifference of millions of onlookers. And that's what there is to gain from letting idiots like Rush and Seanzarelli et al spew their nonsense publicly every day.

Of course, in a perfect world governors such as Kasich/Walker et al wouldn't be elected in the first place, but hey.  It's a slow process.  If that.