[Updated]

When Columbia was lost 2½ years ago, one of the first reactions of the insane far left was "MIHOP," the idea being that President Bush had conspired towards the destruction of the shuttle (possibly with the intent of blaming sabotage for the tragedy) in order to raise the general patriotism and Israel-friendliness (due to the loss of Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon) of the country in the run-up preceeding Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Democratic Underground:

Now that we are sufficiently distracted by the shuttle disaster....

What's bush up to?

I am not afraid to say this -

Heavens, why not? Don't you know we're coming to get you?†

I guess bush's SOTU speech went over so poorly, he needed a disaster to distract us from his horrible actions and lies.

I am getting sick of this bull. How many more Americans must die for bush to look legit? How often will he need to kill to keep up his legitimacy?

How convenient that the first Israeli citizen was on the shuttle, too. Everybody rally behind Sharon and don't question or speak against him, either.

Sick, utterly sick. And monstrous... and demented, in the most etymologically literal sense of the word.

Today, at least, the worst that can be said of them so far is that they're joking about a woman driver missing the mark by 3000 miles.

So far – the day is young.

Update, 6:50pm: The infighting there is mostly about what might be broadly described as "women's accomplishments" it's a hoot. But I honestly expected there to be some sort of Bush/Rove-oriented conspiracy-mongering, along the lines of "well, they didn't need dead astronauts this month for their political ends, but it's lucky for the Discovery crew that they flew now instead of before [political event X]."

The DUmmies really are insane.

* "Made it happen on purpose."

† The brave souls at DU repeatedly advertise their lack of fear, as if some sort of Rove-controlled hit squad was out there "disappearing" people who speak their minds. That's how completely insane some of them are over there.

Today would be a good day to re-read Bill Whittle's Courage.

Posted by Russ at 09:45 AM, August 9, 2005 in Idiots